The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-18
THE INDIAN CAMPAIGN.
Base of Military Operations
TO Be Changed.
MOVEMENTS IMPEDED BY SNOW.
Disappearance and Probable Scat
tering of the Hostiles.
[DY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.1

HAWKINS, Wy. T., Oct. IT, 1879.
Tho failure of General Merritt to overtake the
Utes In any numbers. their retreat below White
River Agency. the storm on the wild road between
Rawlins and the front, and the apparent neces-
sity of carrying the campaign down into the
region of the Uncompahgre Utes, have sug.
gested . Encouragement Of military prepare
tions and q possible change of base.
The distance from Rawlins to the White River
Agency. where Meeker and his companions were
butchered is nearly two hundred miles. The dis
lance from White River Agency to the Uncom-
pahgre Agency below is rcckoned at las miles by
the nearest TRAIL making the total distance from
Rawlins to Unconpahgre. toward which Gen.
eral Merritt, unless deferred by additional
SHOWS. has marched. nearly three hundred
and fifty miles 1t must be remembered too that
below the White River agency there are no wagon
roads and that therefore supplies for an extensive
campaign from this direction could not be depended
on without cantonment at White River. The chief
obstacle in supplying such cantonment would be
series Of snow storms like the which has just
fallen. and which liable to blockade the passes
which intervene between Rawlins and the White
River basin.
TROOPS DETAINED.
General Crook telegraphed General Sherman to-
day that i'll view of the inclement weather he should
detain the troops. about four hundred in number.
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further orders. General Crook requested that
messenger be from the Uncompahgre Agency
to General Merritt to advise the latter of what he has
to expect from that direction.
ANOTHER PEACE COMMISSIONER EN- ROUTE
MASS MEErING CT THE CITIZENS OF GREELEY
RESOLUTIONS cENsURING THE INDIAN POLICY
OF THE GOVERNMENT.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.1
DENVER. Col. Oct. II. 1870.
William J. Pollock. Indian Inspector. who has
been designated to proceed the Ute Reservation to
night at twelve. and will leave tomorrow morning
for his destination He will go via Los Pnos
Agency and hopes to join General Adams at that
point or before he reaches it. had conversation
with MIR. Pollock to-day. but he declined to say
much concerning his plans He does not hesitate.
however. to express his opinion that those who
have participated in these hostilities should be
hanged He thinks that tho hostes have scat
tered, and most of them at the agencies
Mr.. Pollock will be accompanied on his mission by
Ralph Meeker. who also arrived in Denver night
CALLED PAY.
At tho mass meeting held in Greeley, Mr.. Meeker,s
home, resolutions adopted. among which were
the following:-
Resolved. That the government be called upon
through our representatives in Congress to make
full compensation for all private property destroyed
by this outbreak and to suitably pension all persons
who were dependent for support upon our friends
and neiglbors who were killed.
Resolved. That we fully deprecate the great appa-
rent neglect Mr.. Meekers touching appeal for re-
lief. made early as the 10th OF September.
Resolved. That we Indignantly denource the grace
less insinuations and gratuious assertions OF some
Eastern papers that this detection among the Utes
is the result of bad faith the part of the agent
and people OF Colorado as wholly unfounded; i'll
fact. is made in faul,tinding spirit among people
entirely ignorant OF the situation and the indian
Resolved, That the idea so often offered by Con.
gress that the Indian is the ward of the
is the application OF policy more analogous to the
humane principles OF the common law of guardian
and ward than any hitherto adopted by the govern
ment.
cident to tho proper solution of the Indian question
insist that the constant breeding of horde OF
savagcs in the centre OF the continent, maintaining
them in idleness as wards of the government with
out restricting influences, providing them with the
best weapons OF destruction. appears after many
years OF experience like special invention of evil
genius to make savage war and atrocities inevitable
and frequent.
Resolved, That an long as the most romantic por.
tons of our domain to be especially dedicated as
nurseries OF barbarties insist that fast the
Indian is thus bred up, equipped and fitted for his
treacherous warfare. and found hostile and deter
mined to kill and murder. he be certainly slain aud
no more fed and petted as ward
Resolved, That all efforts to civilize the Indians
must prove futile so long as they permitted to
retain their tribal relations. indulge in barbarous
anu are tauBnt 20 regard themselves
dependent nationalities to DO treated on an equal
footing like foreign country and such pampered
with the idea OF sovereign right to make war
against the government for any fancied grievance.
Resolved. That the first requirement in the pro-
cess of civilizng the Indian is to teach him
of responsibility to the government which supports
and protects him. whereas under the policy which
has long obtained he derives no such lesson but
the contrary. is habtually impressed with
the idea that the government him u
living and has no right to his loyalty obe-
dcnce in return. he should either be accorded the
same rights and held to the accountability as
o citizen. should BIO regarded irresponsible aud
dangerous and rigidly kept in restraint.
Resolved, That whio the Indian is allowed to re-
main in the limits OF State ho should be subject to
police regulations and governed by its laws and
thority.
The resolutions pay high tribute to Mr.. Meeker's
character