The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-01-11

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Truthful r1ffflyx - the Fierceh6ss.
Cruelty and Utter D-pravity of the
at Red Woman.

Cruelty and Utter Depravity of the
l@lT Red Woman.
A good deal of, false sympathy has
been wasted upon the Indian women.
The latter are more Herce, q more cruel
than the bucks, themselves, and the
she-devils delight in mutilating the
fdead when the .sTeFk of the battle is
lover. These mltiIations are Of the
4fost obscene natars showing
~ n TOTAL DEPRAviTY
in the beings who Could conceive such
outrages to the slaino Men who were,
over the scene Of custer's defeat say
that the manner, in witch the dead
bodies were treated passes all belief.
Nor is this fiendish custom confined to
the Sioux or their allies. The s'friend-
les y such as the Snakes, and Crows,
follow the same principle-if principle
it be. They have no idea of respecting
the fallen, and sever
LIMB FROM LIND
of the deceased with the method of
butchers. Nothing that has ever yet
been said or written ON this subject has
done it justice. The details are too in
decentiy atrocious for the eye 10 read
without blushing for humanity. All
the devils in hell could not invent any
thing more horrible than the North
American Indians treatment of those
who fall into his hands, dead or alive.
The latter, If women especially, fare
the worst. If nothing else might ex-
clude the savage tribes from white
clemency, their A4A-GC
FIENDIsH TREATMENT
Of white female scaptives by1nearlyss all
Indian bands should DO sufficient to
bring ex~terminating wrath upon them.
| On7the frontier tales of horror are re-
lated, enough to make the blood. run
cold. How many an adoredi or cherish
ed daughter has died
les THOUSAND DEATHs OF SHAME
since the first wagons of the western
Epioneer crossed the Missouri river! In
''The last of the Mohicans," Cooper
makes the scout say to Maj. Howard,
uneasy respecting the honor of his fiance
and her sister, captured by the Hurons
at Fort William Henry, "Do not fear
for that. The redskin will tomahawk
a woman, but her honor is safe with
him. or words to that effect. If Coop
er wrote from actual experience, the
morals of the Indians of the woods and
of the great lakes must have been es-
sentially different from those of the In
dams of the plains. With the latter,
neither the honor nor the life of any
white woman they capture is safe.
Even the women of the tribes hostile
to each other are treated horribly when
ever a village is captured by either
party. Rald6ia Ts D99
HUMANITY sHUDDERs
at the memory Of the Pawnee massacre
by the Sioux not more than a couple of
years ago, when over 100 old men, wom-
en-, and children, were butchered on
their own reservation and the govern
ment was not able to protect them
Officers who saw the bodies immediate
ly after the tragedy, picture the scene
in language that could not be published.
Yet most of the red devils who had par
ticipated in this deyilish work are now
eating government rations at the agen-
cies. If any humanitarian east or
west can give any good reason why such
rascals should not be
t.dJIfsHoT ON SIGHT
humanitarianism degenerates into alb
solute humbug. In point Of personal
appearance, white people fresh upon the
plains can detect little differenc among
the divers Indian tribes. Frontiers.
men can tell whether IN Indian is a
Crow, a Snake, a Cheyenne, Ora Sioux,
at quite asdistance of.
The Reynolds Court Martial.
AT the sitting Of the Reynolds court
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