New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-14
DEMOCRATS AND INDIANS.

The broadbrimmed peace policy toward
| the Indians, found to be failure, and
which was the means of furnishing the
savages with arms and ammunition fol
| hunting purposes ostens;bly, and fol
slaughtering our soldiers really, finds an
! advocate in the savage editor of the
Shreveport Times. That paper says:
There would really be no hostility be.
tween the government and the Indians but
! for the perfidiOusness of the government
and it's agents toward these poor eavages.
No one ever hears of either outbreaks or
i'll feeling between the people of the Domin-
ion of Canada and the many Indians within
its borders. The reason is simply that the
British government deals Justly with these
poor people, and the Indians are ever read 2
to appreciate justice. But the whole object
of the Radical government of the United
States, as proved by the testimony of its
own supporters, is to swindle and to op-
press the unfortunate red men of the West.
Against this injustice the red men rebel.
Hence it is not surprising that the SYM
pathies Of all civilized nations are with
them.
Usually the mistaken sympathy for the
savages of the plains has come from the
theoretical professors of colleges, from the
humanitarians of Massachusetts,, those
who pray that the Pipers and Jesse Pome-
roys may not be hung for fendish murder.
Now the Red river organ Of Democracy
joins the Boston sentirhentalist in sympa-
thy for the savages. 1t says the poor
savages have been badly treated, and it is
not surprising that they rebel against in
justice. This is bad doctrine to preach
within the hearing of colored men who
have been hunted, driven from their homes
and shot by the bulldozers of Louisiana.
The Boston humanitarians have fine feel
ings, they are esthetic, shedding the
blood Of any human being fills them with
horror, and they are honest in counseling
peace and championing the cause of the
savage red man, as they are honest
in desiring protection for the civilized
black man. With the Red river cham
pion it is anything to beat Grant, and in
one and the same paper are found express
sions of Joy at the death Of Clusters men,
and abuse of the President for slaughter
ing them, until the reader is puzzled to
know what the average Democrat be-
lieves, or what he wants. Perhaps Til
denis letter of acceptance will brace up
the party of inconsistency and confusion
on the Indian policy.
We have referred to the heartless re-
marks made by the New Orleans Demo-
crat against the gallant dead who died
with Custer. In the same line of heaping
infamy on the graves of the brave, the
Shreveport Times adds its cruel and
heartless mite with fling at other soldiers
honored by every loyal citizen of the
United States. Referring to the death of
Captain Mcintosh and Lieutenant Hodg-
son, the Times says:
However much our people regret to read
Of such wholesale slaughter OF human be-
ings of their own race and color at the
hands of the savages, we fancy they will
shed no tears over the death of these two
men. 1t is to be deeply regretted that Phil
Sheridan or Dog Merrill, or both. were not
in the fight and killed in the place of the
Clusters. The Dog, however, would no
doubt have been true to his antecedents,
and, like the Crow scout, saved himself by
hiding in q ravine az soon as the tight
opened.
This is the language Of Southern De-
mocracy; not that of enlightened civiliza-
ton. With savages at the south of us
and savages at the west of US, and Con-
federate Congress at Washington trying to