The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-06-01
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.1uoeQ&y AOxnIuSs sun0 l. 4p1Rs. g,
.ynD1Aa. AND wamxxr FaAuDs. = he
Hfsit of the Sioux chiefs to WashinSton
sad their plain talk about official iSing
nnd cheating have been theisub16ct af
rsuch comment, almost as much US the
YaSs developments concerning the wh;s-
key frauds. The disappointment of the
.Endisuss soon after their arrival, upon
aeing referred, to the Secretary of the
Interior and the Commissioner of Indian
Ansars,, instead "of being permitted to
hasS at ONCE d. srbis talk" with the Presis
dent intensified their chagrin, and no
doubt mpsh was said in the Indian
xzigies wAi4hs literally translated. was
xrsy ualys fhs5 were permitted, how
over. to visit the President Thursday,
sznahes} y txg, tn. from;him, without
xnjoying the privilege of discoursing in
xHPays ysf Spd3M Toll took OCCASION to
Say that the published statements to the
.dA& &ths had sagmatized the secre-
taIy OF the Interior and the Commits
ssonor of Indisns Affairs as liars were
iaSentions. The President in his re-
naa<kl 0aded ftksn that under the
;:xreaty,of 1858 they were to be furnished
'azith ceoHtMr p fe thi3tH years and provi-
=s1oAs fds Says, .sotssS sxor the past two
years s'thsprovisiopa npplisa them have
been agstuity. he also said that the
rcsuntzy Aey nov occupied was inade-
sanate. for their support. but that there
was p tarritory South of them where
@e=.a te.sersge were more abund-
1ah and thsy might also enjoy the ad-
santiago Of having teachers in the arts of
'e2Tilisation;4 Hs, would not ask them to
.SDare their present homes without their
consent, but as it will become necessary
'acr 1yhite people to go from one place to
sRer, whether occupied by Indians
.sW not the same ss they. go from one
>fxasSte another, md as the Black Hiils
s,suntry is at present in the line of
-spesnldsivS ymlsfati6n. and thers S'sere
about 400 wnitaS people In tie county ftystx to
'sne Indian. pefhaps it would be better
ser the :ksdiaus H,fe2sot gnvely upon
The suggestion. They will reflect, of
.~ce,yse 4 But there one great prejudice
10 be, Conquered among the Indians be-.
.xcrefthey can Aither be safely bought out
'sr rathlessly turned out of their homes
They ha6sveithatthe agents of tho Go
wnznlhenf fArs great rascals, that they have
sh0en cheating them from the beginning
saf aa EM6es, and there is no security
asRaiAt them. That there ia a good
Asundation of reason under this COM
sasas Il adnaitted BY leading Admistra-
tsinh journals, though, of course. Indian
r1zauds ere not peculiar to any Admins
'izxtisn. The Newark IN. 'J.) advertiser,
'ssr example, suggests an analogy by
which we may discern what is almost too
plain to be worth reasoning about. The
'Rgcnis.of ths Government, it says, who
have been pespetrating the enormous
~Aiskey frauds in The West were ostensi-
hsy undea 9loaciapryeillence by the In
sanEnal eseaNs Department but when
II Was nptifsa. BY an outside agent, of
saas1r theirs, It was as unable to arrest
'xasax az IL. haa been slo* to discover
xhsdr frauds II Is hardly necessary to
show q tortiori h0v much more oppor-
sanity is afforded 70 those notoriously
II dishonest men, the average Indian
agents, hnndteds of miles away on the
plains, out Of reach Of the telegraph and
comparatively free from detection, to
: assusa their trusts at the expense of the
ignorant Indiahs.' Promises made in
Washington are passed to their hands
!ihx performance. and the suspicion is
iyaaat they do not keep faith to the utter
NEzaSe hrthing. The New York Times re-
ra1ants at length the, wrongs and out
rxges which have been inflicted upon
d1.e Indians--the slsughters and massa-
rres-the violation Of treaties and Of re-
-1ervation guarantees, the debauching
IT women and murder of children, the
Aseaking Of bargains, the stealing of
@-eey which b tie Government has sent
a'o them, the inYariable cheating of them
whenever they offer to trade, and peril.
.nently adds: =. s,fu 81 .-,i i.;u
-'Thers WASH vSft large; class of Der
sons whe believed, and who still be-
ae~es that the sa6exin9s which, fell upon
ahe South between 1891 and 1885, were A
'boft OF special DunfShmen for the err, eI