Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-04-18
THE MURDER OF CAHBY-TEaE
PUNISHMENT CRDEXeED.

take the speediest possible measures
for vengeance and retaliation. 1t
cannot, however, be expected that the
people of the South, especially those
Of Virginia and the Carolinas, shall
indulge in eulogiums upon General
Candy Time was when our people
were kindly disposed toward him |
now, however, it would be affectation,
if not hypocrisy, to pretend that We
are overcome by any feeling Of great
personal sorrow at his death
1t is an exceedingly ungrateful task
to speak of any one, who has just passed
from time 10 eternity, save i'll terms of
charity and Kindness, aud We shall
therefore make no comment upon the
manner III which General Candy bore
himself when in dominion over IFS.
But, while we cannot join oar Northern
brethren in peans of praise TO their
dead hero, We can Join them, and do
join them, III the strongest adherence
of the dastardiy act by vlsigI, he lost
his life.
We have never had any admiration,
and but little sympathy, for the Indian
race--a race with whom stealth was valor,
and with whom to lie, to steal, To cheat
andto assassinate, washonor Cunning,
trickery and treachery are, indeed, SO
inseparably a part and parcel OF Indian
nature, that it seems strange that any
one, who had the knowledge of the
Indian character that General Canby's
frontier experience must have Taught
him, should have trusted himself,
unarmed, in the hands Of the Motloc
Chief.
Especially does il seem strange, in
view Of he events OF TIE past, that an
officer wearing the United St .tes
uniform. and one who had first seen
active service III Florida, fighting
Indians, should put himself ii the
protection save that OF flag OF truce.
The murder ot General Candy does
not afford the first instance, in the
history Of warfare between Federal
troops and Indians, III which the
sanctity oi a flag of truce was violated.
The public Will remember, Il Gen
| eral Candy did not remember, the fate
| of OsCEOLA, tie Seminole Chief. Il
| viii be remembered that after having
defeated the. United States troops in
| several engagements during the second
| Seminole war, O5c'E0I.A. while budding
! a conference under fiag OF truce with
General Jessuf, Oh tlc 2.;i Of October,
1887, Hear St. Augustine, H. Florida,
was trearherortsly seized, carried &c
Fort NIoultrie, i'll South Carolina. and
! there kept III confinement until his
| death Ill 1888 Nor has the conduct
| Of the " hite 1rGsl at other times TO-
teach h;n, that pliglited faith was 4
| thing to- be held inviola!,le President
| Grant himself. II We lnfstllr not, bears
| testimony to the bad faith Borne by
the whites to the Indians.
knowing I'll these things, IS Gcn-
! eral Candy must have known them. !:
does, indeed, secl strange that lie
should have gone. u,sarnpod. into die
| armed presence Of 4 nan whom 1e:thol
honor nor conscience nor law could
| bind But so it vas Like OscEoLA,
he trusted to the sancti.y o. i flag OF
truce, and like him, lie found i y. aii:.1
| nothing against treaciery.
Doubtless terrible rctribution will
be vrealled upon tic Modoc Chief AID
his followers. INNOCENT, if any such
of the tribe there be, and guilty, old
and Young, .asai4 and female. sill
doubtless I'll be slaughtered. The
army, both officers and sasess. sisI tie
mand vengeance. The people will
demand vengeance. These demands
will scarce he made in vain TO the lnal
who now wri-es .iaseh General nf
the Armies Of the United States OF
America. William Yecumsp}. allcr-
man is no Obscure, unknown man
The people Of the South, at least,
know linn, and know linn well. Ii
ever there lived Il l35.rs utterly devoid
of the feelings OF humanity. utterly
destitute OF bowels Of coIrpasssio,s, a!..,t
man is General Sherman. II .,v.:.. L
thing be possible, he is fcnd near
nate, and not a I,uElah Being. There Is
no mercy to be expected from him.
We may looi1, then, ere long. soE a
b!ttchery and Il massacre that will
bring disgrace s1Don the Federal army
and upon the American people y
terrible punishment is due and ought
to be inflicted. We trust, however, it
will not be an indiscriminatc mas
sacre.
Just as we finished writing the above