The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-04-22

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assassination OF General Candy has al
ready commenced. After,two days fight.
ing among the lava beds OF Oregon. Gap.
tain Jack yielded to the superior numbers1
OF his assailants aud retrsated to point
Southwest OF his former.position. Con-
sidering the reported duration of the
battle, the number of killed and wounded
is very triflipg, and neither side has any
ground for exultation. Only eight of the
Indians are known to have been killed,
and tile total loss Of the troops is fifteen.
The conflict seems to have been conduct
ed upon the recognized principles OF In
dian. warfare. and We read Of the Federal
forces taking the soalps oiatheir oppo-
nents with the sauls ssgernees and zenl
which the tad :akins exhibit in this little
EQpersti6n upon the outiole. Whether
:hs world will justify such savage ferooi.y
by the soldiers Of a civilized power, is q
question which will soon be- determined.
In the meantime, as it appears, after all
this fighting and scnlping. the war is no
nearer termination than it was before the
DEATH of General Candy, and the exter-
mination of the Modocs is no nearer
completion. Instead OF being routed in
The arst attapk. they held their position
for two days. and thea,retired to another
ositionT,--perheps as.imprsguebleas the
one they relilquishsd.
+; Commenting on the order for the ex.
termination OF the Modoos, tho Will
mington, n. O., Journal says;:
.'Has it occurred, to Genarni Sherman
to ask himself, or to ask any. one else,
when and where he derived authority to
order the utter rexterminstion' of human
beings without judge or jury, without
even drum-head court martial? Is it
possible that General Sherman has any
prejudice against the Modoos because of
theoolor of. their skins, or that he does
not consider them to be human beings?
Have Indians, savages though they be.
respect? General Sherman. evidently
thinks 80. General Sheridan evidently
thought so in January, 1870, when, BY
bis order, tho Piegan Indians were mas.
sacred by Colonel Baker'sfprce; under
orders from him. 173 Indians. including
women and children. eiok with apnall-
pox, were then slaughtered: III cold, blood
and their village burned,
''Those Federal boys in blps>Sl do ! not
always, however, confine t6eif dSHdste
attentions to people OF coipr.a z-VariHfy
is the spice of life. The proof Of this,
without going further of, ori'fnrther
back, is to befo1nd in the burning alive,
in his own house, OF brove old Reddick
Carney, in Pitt County, North Carolina,
/ by detachment OF Federal troops under
command OF Brevet- Major WylIys Ly-
man, 40tb United States Infantry, on the
morning OF Sunday, the 26th of April,
1858. Add yet we are Christian peo-
pie and iiVei IN Christian land, under q
Christian Government, and pray God to
! forgive ns ,ouratrespasses aB we forgive
those who trespass against us.
els General Sherman the .vicegerent
OF the Almighty Ruler OF. the Universe7
tand does he by some divine ecommission
hold in the hollow. of his hand the lives
Of hisfellow-men7 he will look in vain
sipto the lava and Constitution of his
toonntry for any, warrant to order the
utter determination OF sucking babes,
helpless women aud deorepid old men,
mumbiing in their dotage, without the
toA1ts ofoh, VI q uEum-uenu court mar
tial."
Under the caption OF The National
Fruit OF Deceitful and Indian Policy,
the New York Journal Of Commerce
lashes President Grant and his Admins.
| tration thus: THE treaoherous murder
Of tho noble Gen. Candy and Pcaoe Com.
missioner Thomas was the inevitable
fruit Of tho wretched shilly .shally policy
pursued towards the Modocs It was
not peace policy; it was not war
policy; it was nothing but dawdling
and imbccile attempt to frighten and
ca5olo the Indians at one and the same
timo into settlement Of the troubles.
There were only ffty-three fighting Mo.
docs, Commissioner Applegate is the
authority for the number,) holding q
sort OF harbario fortress in the lava beds.
and there were hundreds OF good United
States troops waiting outside to see what
would turn up. We do not believe that
the gallant, experienced and always SEN
sible Gen. Cauby approved the misera-
BILE vacillaiion which has been perceptible
ever since the disgraceful defeat of the
Government soldiers by Captain jacks
little band. His own good sense would
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