The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-06-06
rHp rrW oRLEArs BfILETIN. SUNDAY, JUNE s, 1876.
WHosARR TIE BARBARIAIs7

wHofARE TIE BARBAR1A1s3
A cupory perunl Of the leading Northern
R,dicals papsfs, and particularly OF those
known to Be under the direct pecuniary IN.
fuence of the Washington Indian Ring, would
lead unsophisticated readers to imagine that
Red Cloud, Spotted Tail, and the other de-
scendants of the aboriginal owners Of THU
continent, who have been summoned to the
capital Of the present possessors Of their ID
heritance to be robbed, under color Of q
treaty, of portion of the territory allotted
to their tribe as compensation for the same,
are savages of the most brutal and repulsive
type.
Sad experience having taught these un.
tutured denizens OF the forest that Secretary
Delano and Commissioner Smith were, to put
it more mildly than one of them did it, ex-
tremely unreliable persons, they came to
have talk with their Great Father, U. s.
Grant With characteristic neglect Of his
public duties, U. s. g., who was just pack
ing up his trunk for his usual course of old
Bourbon and sea-bathing at Long Branch.
referred them to the very "chiefs" they had
travelled seven or eight hundred miles to ex-
pose as thieves and liars With the mex
orable logic which is peculiar to " barbara
ans" Red Cloud and Spotted Tail refused to
submit the case to the very men whose
favored subordinates had robbed them, par
ticularly as the "talk " could only be had
through Indian interpreters, specially selected
by D alamo, Smith & Co., and whose fidelity
as translators was declared by the unpublished
chiefs aforesaid to be considerably below par.
In addition to these proceedings Of the In
dian Ring, whereby they justly considered
that they were deprived Of all means of set
ting their case properly before the " Great
Father, the Indian delegates were not allowed
the privilege Of selecting their own boarding
house, although the meanest and dirtiest
negro in the District Of Columbia can mulct
the proprietor of any Washington hotel to the
tune of thousands OF dollars if this publican
should refuse to inflict his odorous compan-
ionship upon his guests. The object Of De-
lano, Smith & Co. was doubtless to pen up
the Indian delegates where none but
members of the Ring would get access to
them, and where the usual appliances could
best be used to induce them to "dry up ;" by
plentiful sprinkling of " dre-water."
It is a remarkable fact, that the party
whose "great moral ideas" were 50 peculiarly
shocked because two or three millions Of
barbarous African slaves-who would have
been eaten by their ebony. captors had these
last not found it more convenient to sell them
to New England slave traders-were brought
over to this country and so badly treated by
their new masters that they increased four or
fve-fold, bsclme Christianized and compare
lively civilized. It is q remarkable and sug-
gestive fact, that the real or imaginary wrongs
inflicted upon these rescued victims Of
African cannibalism have been SO long and so
successfully harped upon by pseudo-philan-
-thropists, that over million Of civilized
Caucasians' lives had to be sacrificed in order
to invest them with political "rights they
are totally unable to exercise intelligently OF
honestly, while the aboriginal owners of the
soil upon which these African waits thrived
and multiplied were being ferociously and
surely wiped out of existence by the "best
government the world ever saw"
Missionaries do not 60 among them, for
it brings neither money nor praise to under
take the laudable work. Politicians
ignore them, for the red man and brother
has no vote, and consequently no
Office to bestow. He is, therefore, left to
the tender mercies of Indian agents who steal
two-thirds of the miserable pittance voted to
him by the Great Sachems who sit in the In
dian Bureau in Washington, and to the
'angel visits" Of the Phil. Sheridans, Giving
tons, and the other ''civilized" warriors of the
Pieean and Sand Greek order Of humanity.
The .'savages" whose wives and children are
brutality raped and murdered occasionally re-
taliate in the same brutal fashion, and are
therefore placed under the ban Of civiliz .tion
BY the very government whose chief military
,ficer, appropriately named William Tecum
,eh Sherman, has just Published his 'Me-
noirs" Of what he exultingly calls his "Great |
March to the Sea" from which notable work |
We extract the following choice paragraphs: |
The skill and success Of the men in collecting |
Iorsge was one Of the features OF this march, |
Each brigade commander had authority to detail |
! company Of foragers, usually about fifty men,
With one or two commissioned officers selected /
Tor their boldness add enterprise. This party |
would be dispatched before daylight with
nowledge Of the intended days march and |
camp; would proceed on foot Eve or six miles |
rom the route travelled by their brigade, and |
then visit every plantation and farm within range
They would usually procure . wagon or family |
carriage, load it with bacon, cornmeal, turkeys.
chickens, ducks, and everything that could be |
he main road, usually in advance Of their train.