The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-04-17

aet Of assassination than the killing OIL
General Candy, by the Modoo ChfefUJ
was never committed. Throughou1 Tho
whole North CRY OF rsge and hatf6r
has gone up, and with one consent tho
Government is. urged. to Et9ke the
speediest possible measures5for ven.
geance aud retaliation. It c3hnot, how
sver, be expected that the feople OF the
South,' especially those Of Virginis-and
the Cs.c!;css, shall, in eulogiqms1
upon General Capbyt Time was when
oar people were kindly disposed toward
him; now, However, It would be affeota.
tiop, it not hypocrisy. to pretend that
ne are overcome by any feeling of great
personal sorrow at his death.
1T is an exceedingly ungrateful task to
from time to eternity, save in terms OF
charity and kindness, and We shall
therefore make no comment upon the
manner in which General Candy bore
himself when in dominion over us.
But. while We cannot Join our Northern
brethren in pmans Of praise to their dead
hero, We can join them, and do join
them, in the STRONGEST abhorreDce of the
dastardly act by which he lost his life.
We have never had any admiration, and
bnt little sympathy, for the Indian race
= race with whom stealth WAS valor, and
with whom to lie, to steal, to cheat and
to sssassinete, was honor. Canning,
trickery and treaohery are. indeed, 80
'inseParably part and parcel of Indian
nature, that Il seems strange that any
one, who had the knowledge of the In.
dian character that General Canbys
frontier experience must have taught
him. should have trusted himself, un.
armed, IN the hands OF the Modoc Chief.
Especially does it seem strange, in view
iof the events OF the past, that an officer
wearing the United States uniform, and
one who had frat seen active service in
Florida, fighting Indians, should put
himself in the hands of an Indian Chief,
with no protection save that of flag OF
truce.
The murder of General Candy does
not afford the frst instance, in the his.
tory of warfare between Federal troops
and Indians, in which the sanctity of
flag Of truce was violated.
'The public will remember, if General
Oanby did not remember, the fate of
Osceola, the Seminole Chief. It will be
remembered. that after having defeated
tie United States troops in several en-
gagements during the second Seminole
war. Osoeoia, while holding conference
under flag Of truce with General Jessup.
on the 23d OF October, 1887, near st.
Augustine, in Florida, was treRcherously
seized, carried to Fort Monltrie, in South
Carolina. and there kept in confinement
until his death, in 1888. Nor has the
oonduct OF the white man at other times
toward the red man been such as to
teach him that plighted faith was thing
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himself, it We mistake not, bears testi-
mony to the bad faith borne by the
whites to the Indians.
"Knowing all these things, as General
Candy must have known them, it does,
indeed, seem strange that he should have
gone, unarmed, into the armed presence
OF man whom neither honor nor con-
science nor law could bind. But 80 it
was. Like Osoeola, he trusted to the
sanclity OF flag of truce, and like him.
he found it availed nothing against
treachery.
Doubtless terrible retribution will
be wreaked upon the Modoo Chief and
bis followers. Innocent, if any such of
the tribe there be, and guilty, old and
young. male and female, will doubtless
all be slaughtered. The army, both Of
Roers and men, will demand vengeance.
The people will demand vengeance.
These demands will scarce be made in
vain to the man who now writes himself
General Of the armies OF the United
States of America. William Tecumseh
Sherman is NO obscure, unknown man.
The people Of the South, at least, know
him, and know him we'll. II ever there
lived q man utterly devoid of the feel
ings OF humanity, utterly destitute of
bowels Of compassion, that man is Gen.
Sherman. If suoh thinE be possible,
he is q fiend incarnate, and not a human
being. There is no mercy to be expect.
ed from him. We may look, then, ere
long, for butchery and massacre that
will bring disgrace upon the Federal
army and upon the American people. A
terrible punishment is due and ought to
be inflicted. We trust, however, it will
not be an indisoriminste massacre.
"Just as We finished writing the above
words, the kilograms came to hand with
the order from General Sherman to
General Gillem, published on yesterday,
directing the utter determination of the
whole Modoo band. There is no longer
any doubt as to the character Of the ven
geance civilized men propose to wreak
upon barbarians. We very much fear
that humanity will shudder when the
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