, 1873-06-03
BATANTA AND BIG TREE,

IL %""noio aAA 0upcI!HlenQcnts, hnQ tneN CAM
q followers, tho npooulators, scems dotcrmine
TINT neither tito military nor tho judicial brano
? OF tho Government Hhnll exercise any inQuonc
I IN settling tho Indian question. Recent ovont
= In Toxas hnvo demonstrated this very conolu
: aivoly. Tho most aayago ard intracsablo OF al
tho Indian trtboa, tho Lipans, Kiokapooa
. Apaohoa, and Kiowas, hayo ravagod tho from
tiefs OF that State for yoaEs, rendering both LII
, and property fnuooure, and committing tho mos
atroctous outragos, which wero all the oasior t.
. accomplish owing to tho distance Of mill
tary posts, and tho opportunities offered tht
murdorera. Of eeoking mn asylum of refuge 1t
Me1ioo. Tho Quaker policy wns tried and tailot
over and over again. Meanwhi1o, Indian out
sngos reached such q pitch Of atrocity and In.
crenRod with auch fearful zhpidity that It was
necessary to call in the military power Of tic
Government, and inaugurato tho atorncet retail.
and faithfully. Con. Crook has punished tho
Apaohoa with o torriblo retzibution, chas-
tisod them into tho most lumblo submiesion,
and has placed them upon o reservation, whore
they are now content to rcmain. Col. Mckenzie
has pursued tho LipanB md Kiokapoos into
Mexico, md punished them upon Mexican
soil at tho risk OF interruption Of tho
| an,tcablo relations botwoon tho two countries,
and will defend his conduct upon tho ground
that 1t Is tho duty Of tho Government to protect
its cttizena against a public enomy, to punish
that enemy wherever ho may be found, and that
tho Mexican Government was unable II NOT un-
willing, to deal with that onomy and prevent any
| further outrageH. Tho Kiowaa were restrained
from thoir murderoua work long ngo by tho arrest
| Of their two principal Chiefs, satantn aud Big
Treo. Those two sayageH had. been tho terror
OF tho whole Southwest for yoara. Thoy Ind
committed acoros Of murderB, and military
officer who was present at tho timo'
Of their capture Inns we'll described them as tigors
in human form. They burnod, ravagcd, and
pillaged all through Texas, Now Moxico, and
Arizona, md their victims wero tortured to
death with tho most trightful mutilatons and
1nhuman oruolty. At Inst, after now treaty
had boon made with them, and Immediately after
its ratification, they committed d now murder,
woro captured. and tho dignity'of civil trial was
granted thom* They were found guilty and
sentenced to death, but for some inoxplcablo
reason these monsters Of savagery were
granted immunity from death by tho
communication Of thoir sentence to imprisou-
mont for 1ifo. Deprived Of their Chiofe, tho
Kiowas hnve boon comparatively powerloas for
harm, and tho sottlors in To1as hnvo enjoyed
immunity from further outragoa ut their lands.
This condition Of things, however, has not boon
satisfactory to tho advocates Of tho penco policy,
as 1t was not brought about by them, and for
aomo timo they have been working to secure tho |
roleaso Of satanta and Big Troo, and their |
restoration to their tribe. Their efforts finally
took the shape Of petition from tho President I
Of tho United States to tho Goyornor Of
Texas, asking for their pardon Just
ut that momont, tho news camo Of
the killing of Gen. Candy and
Elder Thomas, at peace conference,
BY tho Modocs. This stopped tho project of
pardoning satanta and Dig Trec for timo, but,
now that the Modoooxcitoment has quoted down,
It has boon started again.. It ia now reported
TINT Secretary Dolano, notwithstanding tho con-
elusive reasons which Gov. Davis, Of Texas, has
why those m,,rtloroua brutos shon1a NH
be allowed their liborty again. md notv;tbst.na.
Ing tho romonatrauoes of tho ontiro rro.a ,na
pooplo of Toxas, in nainp hin etroryost ,,a,,o,,.
to sot them FREQ. and NAV yot sucoeea r. anal,
. monstrous oct of iniustjce ma tb,. :. +
committed. then ia the sott1ament' NJ +ho
Indian question hopeless indeed. Tbia
q tho first tiuo In mr. b;storv that
ndian. murderera, not on.n roaorv.t,on
iayo beon regularly triod bv n 1urv md 1r,,.
ahed. II tho Government now j.. tio1ihorato,v
ovorBoa ita own action by scttne these o1tofa
t liberty, what is It but ofYcrinr nromtnm n
thor Indians to continue their dopre7ot;ona,
What Ia 1t. indeed. but MI inucan,ent r. so,.,to
nd Biz Troo themselves tn reaumo thai. ,n
unan cruelty at tin vorv frat onnortrr,tu2 -,