, 1876-07-29
The Press on the Custer Massacre.


The Press on the Custer Massacre.
Although the average number of
soldiers and citizens butchered each
year by the savages, in the noun
tains and on the plains bordering
the Missouri river, exceeded that of
the late massacre of Custer and his
brave detachment of cavalry, yet as
the murders were perpetrated at in
tervals, only few being scalped at
a time, no particular feeling was ex-
cited save with the relatives and
friends of the victims, and the Indian
missionaries were permitted to con-
tinue the good work Of conversion
converting the Indians labor and
annuities to their own benefit while
they were drawing his mind from
the grosser things of earth. But
now that wholesale slaughter of
the very flower Of our army has oc-
Cured, the whole country is startled
and it is reasonable to hope that the
excitement will not die out until the
hostile bands now in the field are
adequately punished and the Indian
question irrevocably settled. The
following are the opinions expressed
by the press at large soon after the
massacre:
Philadelphia Times: Our whole
Indian management is simply mad
ness. 1t is professed philanthropy
that breeds only rapacity and death.
1t is the parent of whitefaced plum
derers and prolific source of red
faced savagery.
St. Joseph Mo. Herald:-The Pc
riod for time serving and peace max
ing has passed, and there is no 9TH
er course left now but to push the
war until the last hostile Indian is
swept Off the face of the earth or
peace is established beyond the per-
adventure Of doubt.
Binghampton IN. W Republican
Gen. Custer may have been indis-
Greet in this attack, but this does not
detract from the fact that he and his
band died at the hands of American
savages, armed with American rifles,
American powder, American lead,
furnished by American citizens.
St. Louis Repub1icm:-The In
dians are to be exterminated. Well,
let them go. 1t is only few years
before their time. It is pity, how
ever, that the scoundrels of the de-
partments, who have led the red
devils into this opposition, could not
be made responsible in some small
way for the massacre of Custer and
his men and for the slaughter which
will follow.
Richmond IVhig:--The North shall
not alone mourn this gallant soldier.
He belongs to all the Saxon race,
and when he carried his bold dra-
goons into the thickest of the last
ambuscade, where his sun Of life for
ever set, we behold in him the true
spirit of that living chivalry which
cannot die, but shall live forever to
illustrate the pride, the glory and
the grandeur of our imperishable
race. Custer and his men, though
dead, shall live while admiration of
the heroic and the memory of great
deeds survive among men.
Savannah (Ga. News:-Quite re-
Gently an order for arms for volun-
teer company in this section was
sent to Northern mandatory. The
order was returned with the state
ment that it would be twelve months
before the order, which was for a
few stand only, could be filed, the
explanation being given that the
manufactory was worked to its ut
most capacity to fill Western orders
for arms. The presumption is that
these orders come from post traders,
who are selling them to the Indians
AS matters stand. the red men seem
to be much better armed than our
own troops, and the recent massacre
detailed in our kilograms is an evil
dence of the terrible efficiency with
which the savaoes have learned to
use improved firearms.