The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-07-27

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captain or lieutenant, so and so; few
more millions Of government coin sp-
propriated TO meet expenses; and IN the
Fall q treaty; and in the Spring an
other massacre. So We follow on year
after year in the same old rut, massacre
follows treaty. During the Winter we
are kept in mind of what will occur in
the Spring. by an occasional account
of some brave woman vainly endeavor-
ing to protect her children from these
red devils, or how some innocent girl
va. torn from her dying mothers arms
and taken as captive to the Indians
camp-a fate far worse than death
How long must we, as nation, pay
this tribute: How many more dear
ones must We lay upon this already
blood-dripping altar: Now. how
many tufts of green grass mark the
places where the life blood of the slain
has been shed; how many little knobs
tell Us where some one has been buried
Too many skeletons are found every
year by miners, trappers and hunters.
How many break away from captivity.
and after days of intense suffering have
arrived at the settlements with true &C.
counts of a captive's life. Shall We
shut our eyes to all these scenes, shall
we turn deaf ear to these cries for re-
venge, coming as they do from the
earth that has drank up the blood of
those near aud dear to US? Shall we
let the mothers tender prayer for mercy
60 unheeded !: Shall we clasp hands
friendship with the murderers of
our friends, the mutilators of our couu i.
trymen. The tiends who tortured our
mothers, wives and sisters, and then
left them to die alone upon the plains,
or the destrOyers of our homes. No,
every mans heart says. If they were
white men would we suffer it to 90 un-
noticed: No, it would then be a war
of determination. Now wa must pet
and care for these fisnds. because Gen.
Sherman says they fought like Chris.
tisns.' For God sake if they fought
like Christians, is it not time to Quit
this costly experiment of civilization
and let them remain in their grade
where nature placed them. Mission.
aries taught them Of one who was cru.
Gifted, most shameful death: thew
brought crucifixion down to our day by
impaling babes, torn from their dying
mothers arms. upon stakes and picket
fences, and by mailing them to the
sides OF the buildings during the In
dian troubles of Minnesota, not long
ago. They have been taught how the
warriors of Moses day cxterminated
nations much stronger themselves be.
cause they were in the right. Has an
Indian not the same privilege to con.
slider himself justified in his hellish
actions? How much have we gained
by all our trials at christianizing the
poor red man! A few Custars and
Canbys have piles of marble to mark
their resting place, with their daring
deeds inscribed thereon. Thousands OF
mounds tell the spots where those OF
less Importance sleep. No kind friends
come to stew their graves with flowers
no, nothing but Natures floral gifts
decorates their silent homes: no tears
save the driving rain or gently falling
dew are shed over them as they sleep.
and for this reason, as a Nation. we
are nots aroused. Officers, inerperienc-
Ell boys. arc sent out to prtect(?) the
frontier. A few Generals or Colonels
are sent to oversee the work, but they
are usually first interviewed by some
Peace Commissioner or Quaker Peace
Party, to see if they mean to pray for
the poor Indian, or if they mean to
punish him as he deserves. If of the
peace kind, these officers are given full
control; if they fight Indians as Indians
fight them. they are ordered home, and
stamped "brute." ''devil" or "scalper."
Those peace men are at prayer meet
ing praying for Indians" while the red
fiends are mutilating bodies, DESTROYING
women, numbering children. and de-
Wasting homes within fifty miles of
them. Shame. shame upon us as men,
that we do not put an end to such
work; when we have good rifles
hanging In our homes only
waiting the word that we NAV
protect ourselves and those who are
near and dear to us. Shame upon us
that we must sit idly by while the war
whoop is echoed and re echoed from
the Rocky Mountains to the craggy
peaks of the Cascades; here where the
smoke from burning villages is almost
In view, here where the cry for help is
waited to us on every breeze. Must
we sit idly by and read Towards
prayers for Lo, while our countrymen
and women are begging some one to
save them from the scslping knife, or,
still worse, captivity. If q mother 8
prayer for her child will not touch the
Indians heart, how can Howard even
hope that his prayers will change their
savage nature.
Mr.. Editor, is it not time that some
thing WAS dons in the right direction;
cannot the press. ever powerful, awak-
EN- to true sense of our danger, put
our case plainly and truthfully before
our lawmakers that we at least may
feel assured if they will not protect us
we may be allowed to protect ourselves.
II the Indians were left alone, not COM
pelled to go on reservations. they would
be all right. Let our Government
abandon that plan; discharge the agents
aud employees and let the Indians
mingls with the whites, be governed
by our laws ard give the people power
TO enforce them, the same as with any
one elsa, and this trouble will soon
be over.
Let them take this Indian appropria-
ton amOuntinp IN miliious and pa,