The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-12-14
SITTING BULLS HOSTILITY.


REPORT OF THE UNITED STATES COMMISSION
TO THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT-THE
REruoEE SIOUX AT FORT WALSH rxc1TIxG
OUR PEACEFUL BANDS TO IEvoLr-cASADA
SHOULD INTERN rHEM-A DIPLOMATIC
POINT.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD
WASHINGTON, Dec la, 1877.
General Terry and A. II. Lawrence VINO recently
visited Sitting Bull as commissioners OF me United
States made their report Secretary Schurz o!
the Interior Department. AS General Terry acgnowi-
EDGED there 10 nothing In hts Statement, concerning
the powwow NJ Fort Walsh tha, not the
HERALD's SPECIAL report OF six and half columns,
printed October 23 The commissioners simply re-
peat that sitting Bull absolutely refused TO return
this country.
pAxGER OF xoRg WAR.
With reference 10 tho dnal instructions OF the COY
ornment 10 the commission, General Terry and his
colleague say sin compliance with tnat clause Of
the instructions which directs the CON mission 10
ascertain what danger there may be OF hostile inva-
The part OF Sitting Bull and the bands under
his command upon the territory OF the United States
the COMMISSION has the honor rcpor, that they
convinced that Sitting Bull and the Indians with him
will seek 10 return 10 this country AZ present. IL
is believed that they are restrained from returning
ass,ng pursuit 10 which they were subjected during
he last winter and spring by the troops under General
Miles, pursuit which ended only with Their gh, 70
foreign SOIL partly by the assurances gwen them BY
the Canadian authorities that should they return with
hostile intent they wl become The enemies
both governments and IN part ny their belief that
for rome reasons, which they cannot fathom, the
government OF The United States very earnestly de-
sres that they shall return This behe has boon con-
drmsd and strengthened BY tho visit OF the COM
mission aud tho worry favorable offers made by them.
In their intense hostility government they are
determined 10 COutrOVeGo wishes
their ability The most probable ultimate result IS
that these Indians IKE those Sioux who, after the
asylum In tho British Possessions, will in time be.
come accustomed ana attached to thor new coun-
try they Will regard 1t as their permanent home. At
the IL canhot be concealed that the presence
OF this large body Of Indians bitterly hostile 70 u.s. in
close proximity 20 The fronticr Is standing menace
to the peace OF our Indian territories.
EVIL INFLUENCE or SITTING BULLS RAND
'srhc tribes winch occupy Tho region between the
Upper Missouri and the forty ninth parallel have been
Tor tmo past restless disturbed and given 10
plant Among these tribes are the Yanktons, them
selves Sioux aud the Assinibonc kindred OF tho Sioux
Though these tribes have been nominay at peace,
there IL doubt that during the last year and half
many individuals from them mayo helped to swell
those bands which havo been gagged in open war; 1t
IS impossible 10 prevent constant commu nicat0n be-
lhoso tribes and Tho band OF Sitting Bulls and
SO long the latter shall remain 10
frontier they Low are, they cannot fail 10 cxercfc
a most injurious influence over the former, giving
encouraging acts OF hostility Besides this body Of
refugees is not distinct section OF the sioux
nAtiOn " IS cau0 up ny CONTRIBUTORS from nearly
every agency and every trbo; II Ia largely composed
of young mon, whose amilies still remain
GUS Sioux agencies Were II distinct band that had
separated itself from and broken OF IT'S associations
with the OF Its people It would DO forgotten
and would TO asy influence those from
whom had separated; but the intimate
the tics OF blood existing between tho refugees and
the agency indians forbid TO hope for such result
To the lHwless and III disposed those who commit
offences against the property and persons OF the
Whites the refugee camp Will be a secure asylum
not only asylum on foreign soil, but an asylum
amid their own kindred.
WILL CANADA DIaARM THEAY
We have already an illustration vi this danger in
the that than hundred OF the Neg Perces
defeated n Bear Paw Mountain now in Sitting
BULLS camp II is not the province or the commits
sion to propose any measures IN respect 10 this mat
10 be taken by tho government, but thcy may BIO
permitted suggest that The evils which they appre
bend may be in some degree avoided by compliance
the part OF the authorities OF the Dominion Of
Canada with the rule CT International law which
qures that armed military or insqrgent bodies which
are driven by force tho frontier OF neutral
state shall be informed, shall be removed SO far
into The interior OF the neutral state that they
longer threaten In any manner the peace safety
OF the State from which they have come
ain conclusion the members OF the commission de-
sire 70 express their grateful Of the courtesy
with which they received by Lieutenant Colonel
Mcleod, Major Walsh and the C1acer Of police under
their command"