The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-05-22

The SPEECH O: Gov. Pennington,
OF Ddkutu, Whu is from Alabama, Is
Il somewhat remarkable efidTt. That
gentleman has gone TO Washington
in sUrurb"dy'S interest besides those
Of the white people Of Dakota Terri
! tory, and disc UurSes hOridly and flip
PANTY about the character Of the u.rn
who want to e. to the Black Hills,
and give a clue to their character by
saying they would scuttle a ship and
cut II ihruut. We are quite well con-
virCed that this Alabama statesman
has outlived his usefulness on The
frontier, and shall be prepared 10
hear any day now, that he has been
" -cuttIed" himself, and fCcn sunk
out Of sight fur all time to cOne 1t
i a singular fact, but truc upvprihe-
less, hist by SOME ursrcuuutable Hc-
Cidrnt mel sometimes are hDnurUd
with Offices that they prove them
selves wholly unfit for. they have
no proper conception Of their official
duties, and Instead Of seeking To- dis
. charge them for the public veal, use
their positions for private gain and
revenge. One would Think that the
opening up of amy portion of Dakota
to settlement, would naturally re-
dOund to the benefit of the whole
Territory, and that its Governor
would be the foremost man To HdvO-
cate and insist upon such a result.
Not so with Pennington! He has
" bunkod' with the sQuaw men, and
being glib of tongue, he talks pratt
caIly about sCuttling of ships and
cutting of Threats. He IS N of that
kind of men Of whom We hear-we
regret the e are too m"ny-whn are
always prompt to pull down and
destroy, to object, 20 intcrpose obSta-
cles to the wheels Of progress unless
their profit and pleasure i provided
for. No greater blessing cou Il hap
pen to the people Of Dakota Territory
at this time, than II vacancy in it's
gubernatoriaI office, and the appoint
ment OF Il live Governor who is above
junketing with squuw men
We sincerely hope that Wyoming's
representatives, Gov. Thuyer and
Cot. Steele, will insist upon a cession
Of tho Sioux hunting right7 in Wyn-
ming at the present conference. As
Il matter of fact, no portion of the
country between the summit of the
Big Horn Mountains and the Black
Hills rightfully belongs to the Sioux
nation. From time immemorihl it
belonged to the Crows, who still claim
it, but have been driven from II ly
the predatory Sioux hands. But in
the treaty of 1868 they (the Sioux
were recognizcdus having some sort of
claim to the country, and their right
TO hunt'over it guaranteed so long
MS the buffalo shall range there in
such numbers rs to Justify the chnsc.'
As n matter of fact, The buffalo has
ceased ranging over This section Ell
tirely, and the only condition upon
which the hunting rights of the Sioux
were blSttI II the liIllP OI lIle treaty,
has ceased to exist. The fact j. nm
open and notorious 0ne-Squa men
and their sympalhizers to til" con
trary notwithstanding-that about
all the hunting" the Iniinns do
now over this section, or have done
over it for the past four or five years,
is dashinS acro~ it from their rPser-
walton, down upon the settlements in
the Wind River country, or upon the
mining districts of Carbonan Sweet.
water counties, and numbering and
p]lunderiEg the Inhabitants. This
sort of "hunting'' should be put an
end to ut once 10y the government,
and the Indians made TO understand
that they must remain upon their
reservation. If the government is TO
continue the feeding and clothing Of
the Indians, it can be done upon
their reservation. They have n tract
larger than the State of Ohio in their
reservation, and there are but about
> 1000 of them in all. If they will
not sell the Black Hills let them
keep them, but put All end to their
hunting rights in Wyoming.
The Washington special correspon-
..-- r ~. u 1890, D. - NT.. 7 81