The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-04-21
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Gptnias State Sp,trnal.
General Candy ana the Modocs
To the Editor qrme State Journal.


To the Editor Qrth State Journal.
| The death of our beloved General Canb,
has lent thrill of horror to our hearts
He was stationed here for months, and W,
both admired and loved him. Mrs. CANDY
is a woman of rare excellence and true
loyeliness--most benevolent and sympa-
thetic. They were eminently fitted fol
each other. She is alone, as they had but
one child, little girl, who died at six
years of age. This child's death was the
bond of an unspeakably tender nnion.
We shudder to think of the terrible re-
venge our nation will take, nor do we
think determination right. We have taught
the poor sayages treachery; with all our
wealth of territory we begrudge them small
tracts, and mercilessly move them again
| and again from their camping grounds and
the sacred graves of their dead. We vio-
late our treaties and exact faith Of them.
Has General Hancock no record to thrill
the savage heart TO reUenge? Do we not
pass mildly over our own misdoings towards
them? Was not Osceola, their proud and
loved chieftain, taken under our own white
flag? Thrown into prison, and broken in
spirit, he died; refusing food and medicine
he courted death, coveted death ? All, faith
broken brings cruel harvest; and prison
walls are worse to a forest king than the
swift bullet.
Retribution is stern reality-we reap
what we sow. The death of'no private in
dividual could have SO striking parallel
as that of our good, our noble
Candy to that of Osceola. 10 him indi-
vidually we believe that death,
closing beautiful life. was gain; to us,
the nation, the sting, the loss irreparable.
General Grant is not acrong IN has policy,
but under the circumstances the Indians
had, for causes past, lost faith in us, and
feeling or believing in their strength, kind
ness was mistaken for cowardice and
timidty. Alas to what are we now driven
We have sown the whirlwlnd nothing re-
mains for us but to show our strength of |
arm and punish wisely but not blindly and |
for revenge.
1--we are close observers and thinkers we
will be startled to see the exact corre-
sponderice between crime and punishment;
it is as sure and unerring as the rela-
lion of the angles of incidence and reflec-
ton. Study the treatment, the history
Of the Indians; remember Logan and
host. of red-men friends ; remember the
JtciicSS OGduOIltdSs Liz luuldtlS |
wrongs are not written in our language,
nut are summed up in the book of Gods
General Grant stands
higher as the friend of the friendless than
is President of these states.
There are good and bad everywhere. L
IN no apologist for Indian treachery, cruel
y, or torture; but justice requires US to
make self-examination. Religious persecu-
ions, and many accursed things which
ould be written of slavery, had it pen,
how the white man not whit behind
hem. God forgive us for our conduct to
he poor owners of all this land we call
urs. The Gagged man of the forest, re-
reating to his mountain Businesses, and
wildly dying fighting for land and liberty, S
nay be wrong; but there is something |
ublime in his defiance.
Captain Jack committed a terrible crime, !
ut that is no reason why we should do I
,orse. q, So :" JUSTICE