The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-09-25
The New Indian Hostilities.

I'VE are now at peace with all the H.
dian tribes on our borders" said one OF
IIAyEs's earliest communications to Con-
grcss; to preserve that peace 10y just
and humane policy will be the object OF my
earnest endcavors." The third Indian war
OF HAYI-s's Administration has now begun
the third in less than eighteen months, not
to reckon the Apache raids in Texas, Arr
iona, and New Mexico.
II any tribe OF red men on the continent
has reason To hate the white race. II j. the
Chcyenncs. now once more on the war path.
Between thirteen and fourteen years ago,
this tribe. onco friendly to the settlers.
serving them and the Government A. guides
uu the plains and a. scouts in wur. was
driven 10 hostility 10y Il culd-bluodcd butch-
cry. In the spring OF lsGi, II rtnchuan COM
planned at Fort Sanborn, on the South
Platte. that Indians had stolen his stock. \
Lieutenant, with n small body of men. went
among the Indians 10 recover the stock
alleged To be stolen, but saw nothing Of
il: finding some Chcyenncs armed, he UNI
dcrtuok to dsnrm thom. This was different
crrnmd, which ended In bloodshed and So be-
gan war. Early in the winter following, the
Cheyenne chiefs, with many Of their people,
gave thcnsevc, up at Fort Lyon, and We're
assigned 10 a camp ON Sand Crock, where
the women and children, with II few friendly
old chiefs. gathered under the protection Of
the United States flag given them 10y the
commandant, while the youth went oil TO
get food and TO bring in the hostile war
riors. \ Colorado regiment approached the
camp. The Stars and Stripes were floating
tn. al IuIiup. nlgA raj snI
white Nag and huddlcd around it. Into
that throng the soldiers fired and then
rushed. One hundred and fifty women and
! children and twelve old men We're slaugh-
tered, Indian women were scalped and dis
clnbowelled. and Indian children, carried
away 10y the troops, We're Drained miles dis
tant from the hideous spot.
Thence arose the Cheyenne war of 1865, in
which this tribe, aided by the Arapahoes
Kiowas, and Comanches laid waste the
] frontiers with fire and blood. When eight
| thousand soldiers had been drawn from the
Union army, when hundreds Of soldiers and
settlers had fallen and $4,000 200 had been
! spent, peace was made, not by arms, but by
a talk. Disguised with the white savagery
that had brought ON this costly and bloody
war, Gen. SHERMAN, writing from Fort
Lyon nearly a year later, said that COP
only knew what excuse could bc found for
attacking these people again certainly it
was no existing misconduct on their part.
" went down the Arkansas, and travelled
| in three days 100 miles to this post ! did
not see or hear Of an instance, although We
passed the whole length Of the Cheyenne
and Ampahoc reservation" Nevertheless,
! the next spring the troops had got at the
Chcyenncs again report made to Con-
grcss by the Interior Department in July,
1867, says:
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since ls,5 were ouie,, o'cuny,n, ,hrlr VILLAGE ,o ,,.
ground assigned 10 them by that treaty. when ml,ar,
command under Major Gen lAN'ocN, without any known
pfo'o'"uo' nuI"oa u'"n "' "'"'S '' ul'e nu'"'''
Sons, nuI Al, tbe,r nroyi.on. clot,n u,,n,,l. and
properly OF every dc,crp,on property mus bcin! de
sroyed to the value OF slolo""
So bopan the second Chcvonne war. I'm