The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-10-01

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The bitterest and most nnreIenting
enemies Of the frontiersman, after The
Indian ring, are dishonest Indian
agents and their friends and abettors,
among whom may be mentioned the
editor of the Omaha Herald, the mem
bers Of the eastern peace societies, and
a Large army Of editors, church mem
bers and Quakers, preachers, ETC.,
throughout the states east of the Mis-
sissippi. All of these people are living
on land wrested from the red mar by
force or bought with the smallest pos
sible amount Of money. presents or
merchandise. OF course the conquests
or purchases were effected by their an
c~estors, but the fact that the Indians
once owned the land remains and can
not be gainsaid.
To-day, while ten Thousand hardy
miners are burrowing among the golden
sands of the Black Hills. enduring the
pains of hunger and ~privation and risk
ing their lives in the noble work of
developing the hidden wealth Of that
favored region, these friends of the red
scalp hunters and stock thieves who
have made life on the plains a perfect
hell on earth for SO many years-these
sycophantic abettors of the murderous
minions Of Sitting Bull, Red Cloud and
Spotted Tail are prating about the
violation of treaty rights" the s'elo-
quent appeals of Red Cloud and Spot
ted Tail, the sorrows of the ''abused
and cheated indiana and the ''vindic-
tive, ceaseless and cruel'' war Of the
miners upon poor Loi
Bah! We cannot write as we would
with words that should burn conviction
deep into the hearts of our misguided
enemies. What matter if Spotted Tails
now famous speech was written by ex-
agent Howard and committed to mem
DRY by Old Spot? What matter if the
burning eloquence of Little Wound,
Red Cloud, Fire Thunder, Man-Afraid-
Of Work, and all the other petty chiefs
at Red Cloud consisted entirely of pro-
ductions from the pen of the gifted but
guilty Hastings, laboriously learned by
the sons of guns ere the sinful agent
departed for the shores of Michigan?
What matter ii the braves who should
be with their chiefs at the Agencies are
proven by the most indisputable evil
dence to be at the present writing en-
gagged in the to them pleasant pastime
OF numbering Black Killers and ranch
men, stealing and ravaging the entire
Notwithstanding with them the dam
ming evidence of the fiendish rascality
Of their agents in the shape Of passes
for ~''friendly'' Indians, such as were
found on the bodies Of those killed in
the battle of Slim Buttes?
We hope we shall not be deemed
egotiistical when we say that our ar
guments are unanswerable. Talk about
broken promises is cheap. Spotted
Tail, Red Cloud and their subordinate
bloy-hards do not mention the fact that
ever since the treaty of 1868, predatory
bands from their agencies have ravaged
the frontier, numbering men, women
and children and committing the most
horrible outrages of every description,
but this is nevertheless as true as that
there is a sun in the sky.
Again we say that the men we have
mentioned are the bitterest and most
unrelenting foes of the frontiersman,
and have done and are doing us far
moro harm than the Indians themselves
for the reason that they have caused all
the trouble, and are doing their level
best to perpetuate it.