The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-07-20

make his death - rallying cry
against military retrenchment. But
the country should not be misled
by this. The United States troops
now in Louisiana and Mississippi,
where they are kept to control the
coming elections, would have been
amply sufficient to have saved poor
Custer from defeat and death. When
one thinks how the whole force of
the administration is now turned to
the protection of the Belknaps and
Babcocks, and the gallant aud no.
BILE young Custer Inundated for
doing his duty and sent ont to court
death in all i'll provided Indian ex-
petition, the cup of the iniquities
of Grantism seems overfowing.
N. Y. San Ind: Under wise
and honest management, our Indian
Bureau could have prevented it; in
stead of this, it fomented it. This
bureau, by its corruption and rob-
berry, incites the savages to blood
shed, invades their rights, and VIC
lates its agreements with them.
Then, having reused them to ven
geance, it call in the aid Of the
army. The Indian agents welcome
war, for it swells, their profits and
eyaggerates their Importance. When
the Secretary of War sells post
traderships, the brother Of the Pres
ident engages in the traffic, and the
President himself Furnishes brave
General for testifying to the facts.
what wonder is it that the savages
hate and distrust the whites and
concentrate to wreak their revenge
on them! We hold Gen. Grant res
ponsible for this horrible massacre,
and arraign him before the people
on account of it. 1t is the direct
consequence and fruit of the vile
system of plundering the Indians
which has grown up under his pa
tronage, and the greed Of money
which he has encouraged in the
agents of the Government who deal
with the outraged savages. There
was no need of it These slaugh
tered soldiers were the innocent
victims of an Indian policy which
created Delano aud enriched Orvil
Grant.
| N. 7. Herald: General Custer
went into the campaign, from the
expected command of which he had
been harshly degraded, with his
heart torn by keen sense of injus
tice and with an apparent determi
nation to retrieve his standing BY
some splendid act Of successful dar
, ing or die the kind of death which
hallows the memory of a soldier II
the hearts of his countrymen. Had
he been in command of the cam
! paign a sense of responsibility
wonld have restrained and tempere(
his impetuosity. But this brav,
! soldier had been rendered desperat,
by i'll usage, and when sdeath wa
+ set in one eye and honor in tn
f Othern he c0urted q heroic dealt
! rather than endure the disgrac
, which the cold malignity Of tn
, President had attempted to pu
| upon him. 1t would be hardly to
f severe to say to President Grant
"Behold your hands! they are re-
t with the blood of Custer and hi
e brave three hundred"
e N. Y. San: To get a correct ide
e of the magnitude Of the war int
g which we have been so needlessl
{ plunged, it is only necessary I
q remember the Modoc war, in whic
j. about one hundred comparativel
q tame Indians defied the militar
4 power OF the United States *
q weeks, and were at last overcom
{ only through the treachery Of SON
It of their own band. The foe that "
!. now have to contend against nun
/. bers many thousands of the fierce
It savages on the continent, heade
). by chiefs who are adopts in STRAIT
a gy; and instead of being hemmt
It in by our troops as the Modo
d were in lava beds, they have q
st area of thousands of square mile
Astounding in natural fortresses,
u which to play at hide and seek wi
n. our soldiers. There are 4O, on
in square miles in the great Sioux re
le ervation alone, and a populate
er OF about 80, 900 upon it, while the
n are fifteen or twenty thousand
il the same warlike nation upon 9th
I'd reservations, besides several thor
e. ands who have never entered in
er any relations whatever with 0
Cororr~ouk rofucinn IN mo