The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-07-15
rag INDIAN AND TIE NEGRO.
~.v,ug the Flag of Freedom ana "o"-
bing the Treasury.
fLynchburg News.

lLyncHDuTE ANNH'I
The press or the country IL very gen
rally OF the opinion that the tline mas
come to suppress the Indian. -lClhcih-
natl Enquirer. ,a,on rho o,cbt 70 ha
ls,essed but the men who are robbing
euLp pstaryinr him and driving him on
ahu ,',ar pnth. III we had an honest ad-
si;unistrafion wy Of the Indian Bureau at
pmlr,asbinpton there would be peace on the
,"n,;ar we would reduce the army ana
LII ~ lives OF gallant officers like Custer
s.a,,id wy not be III constant peril. Inc re-
sw'o"nsibjlity for the late disaster prima-
sslv lies with the Administrator BAL
timore Gazette.
'''not n there is anything plain to those
,ybo understand the subject ana the
neople, IL is that the Republican party,
!paonecially the Northern wing,) has
.harn .eap itself utterly incompetent to
'.nyern control and manage either the
Sogroes or the Indians. This party has
1onstituted itself the guardian OF all
olasses OF humanity In the land, VINO,
- hi opinion, need it's fatherly protec-
ton and out of whom any advantage Is
40 he gained for the party, either IN the
shane Of pecuniary profit for individual
mambers. or unthinking support OF its
nolitical leaders. The indian has been
tent ms a ward that in his education and
supnort the Radical officials, in the
name of tender national conscience and
missionary zeal, and broad christianity
might deiraud and plunder the
public treasury. Possibly, and II
i only possibly, they did no'
know that every trader they appointed
iei, t intentionally his conscience on the
frontier. and plundered. cheated am
robbed every Indian with impunity. j.
Thus eyasperated and maddened the In
dams brought on raids or war, it only
increased the contracts and added to In
dridnal gains. Uncle Sam could stanc
II There was money in the treasury
and our troops needed some practice
and some necessity ought TO be showr
for a large standing army. All tn
wrongs done the Indians: all the bloot
shed from the Lava Beds 10 the Bit
Horn; all the lives lost from CANDY $ u
the noble Clusters, are chargeable 10 Tn
Republican party, and II an honest peo
& pie ,CiH not, a just God Will require tni
blood at their hands.
And lust SO OF the other wards OF tn
nation. the negroes. Beginning in pre-
tended love OF their neigh bors, in chris
tian philanthropy, in religious zeal, ac
cumulating in strength and gathering
intensity by the sight Of their Southern
neighbor's prosperity, destroying tina
neighbours capital and obiiteratng hi
right Of property in the negroes, the
have assumed their guardianship, and j
this holy work the officials OF the party
from its advanced guard OF carpet-ba
saints under Gen. Howard, down to tn
LOYAL League lecturers, have plundere
the negro, destroyed his contentmen
traded in his vote, robbed the treasur
and precipitated riot and bloodshed !
cover their nefarious schemes ana slal
der the people OF the South. Shall thes
things never stop? Will the peopl
continue to trust this hypocritical an
dishonest party who disregard the vast
OF both the blood and treasure OF ou
people, and who, in the language
Nesmith, Of Oregon, with one nan
wave the flag Of freedom, while with tl
other they rob the treasury.