Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1875-03-25

thunder of the blast, and the resistles,
stream Of the hydraulic miner washes
away rocks and earth and, like the faitf
of the New Testament, moves mountains
from their place. Are not s'big bonan
zas" enough for s,that we must tear uT
the grass from the Indian hunting
grounds and shake the glittering dusi
from among its fibres? But no, Cali
fornia and Nevada and Colorado may
hide their diminished heads, the Black
Hills are now the ne PITS ultra, the non.
pareil, the .facile arinoeps of all treasure
fields, the cynosure of every long haired
and long g-knived gold hunter who can
muster shovel, a pan, bag of pork
and bread, and long cared mule.
o, We Sioux, turn one long, last, linger-
ing look upon your beloved hunting
grounds The antelope aud buffalo shall
vanish from them like dew before the
morning sun. No longer shall the
grizzly bear dig his roots and pick his
straw berries in the smiling meadows.
The gorgeous flowers shall be dragged
up by the roots and shaken, to detach
the clinging gold. The beautiful hill
slopes shall be torn up and scarred and
scanned by gulch and rift and tunnel !;
the ripping mountain streams shall no
longer trickle through moss and over
pebbles, but ''cabined, cribbed, con-
fined in rigid fumes, shall wind like
snakes along the mountain sides till they
burst forth from the miners nOzz'e with
the force Of cannon shot, dealing out
ruin aud destruction instead of life and
refreshment A change shall pass over
the face of nature The beautiful smil-
ing park in which General Custer and
his troops encamped shall become like
the crater of an extinct volcano, full of
horrible holes and pits. The limpid
streams shall be defiled with mud until
they are as yellow as the gold which
they have washed from its bed, and the
song Of birds shall be exchanged for the
hoarse oath aud crack of the revolver.
The only thing that would seem likely
to save the United States from the dis
grace of broken faith is of the nature of
a counter irritant If an excitement
could be got up in another direction it
might stave off the evil day until
poor ''Lo" and his tribe are gathered to
their fathers. They are doing their
best down in Newburyport to accom-
plish this, but that does not seem to be
sufficient. We are ready to do our
share After the manner of Artemns
Ward, we are ready tosacrifice Mendon,
or Sherburne or the hills Of Shrewsbury.
Come to thiak of ii we believe there are
some mines up fsde Dark, mysterious
hints have bf~ sslisperedf9 our ear of
treasure trove that nlEaAt fs found If
yon tsss~-s~ss..srss tgss. - ys..a,, clio
sveu seen 11ecimens, bat decline to tell
who showed thensto us or where they
came from. Yonr true gold hunter must
prospect. The charm is half gone if
you show him where the nuggets are.
Neither shall we tell what the specimens
were. 1t may have been silver or gold,
or better yet, diamonds. Why not?
If you are going in for an excitement,
why not make it as big as possible
There is one, thing which we are bound
not to do. We shall never breathe q
word of the vein which crops out ia an
old cellar up on Main street it will be
enough for our red shirted friends to take
possession of KillipgtOn and Pico.. Only
one thing is lacking, and that can be
If the Bald Mountain Elk .
Association will make a solemn treaty
with tho United States, In which their
shall be secured to them and
their descendants forever, and then for
get TO have it ratified by Congress, the
thing is done .--,,-z..
But seriously We bope the government
viii eontinne ia the course which It has
already marked out Just because might /
IS On our side, we shoald scorn 10 take:
advantage of the Sioux The Indians
have already too much reason to re-
pr0ach MS with sPunic. faith. !" The
government is directly responsible for
the raid Of last winter and the yet great
II one which will take place when spring
fairly opens If The Sioux will sell OF,
exchange the reservation, then by all |
means let it he SO arranged; bat if they
usist upon their rights, let Them be sup
ported fbough il takes every soldier in 4
be army This is the course of justice
m of. prudence also. They are the !
nest powerful Of the indian tribes, and I
when we remember Capt. Jack and his
lahdtul of Modoos, discretion may seem |
he beiler part of Valor. Ten thousand
in their native wilds are not to. I
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