Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-13
De,FI,as eoost AND sAne LAKE,

D. n. saasA Appears Ia Nls owa Dsseacs
IN WHICH He Aaniss soAe OF the
CAavxss Against Hina and Denies
Others.
MISNEAPol1s, MINI, Oc4. :, lS79.-1o
tie Press and Dakotaian.-I feel ashamed
to notice or attempt to reply to . personal
attack, such rs appeared in the October "a
number Of your daily, especially since The
writer has not the manhood to write over
his own signature. But l trust l have
many very true and warm friends in 1ank-
ton and elsewhere in the territory, whose
good opinion I hope still to retain, anu
hence my excuse for this.
1t seems very strange that all those who
20 to the trouble Of writing me up should
not have the courage to let the public
know who, they are, and especially since
they show such tenacitv to have their little
say appear in print, even going so far in
n instance, I am told, as to pay for their
production at circular rates, and even then
the paper publishing it had too much re-
gard for respectability 10 publish it,in its
regular Issue, but sent it out in the form OF
an extra. 1 do not vouch for the truthful
ness of this statement, as it came to me IN
directly, but the manner in which it ap-
peared has something Of that look about il.
I refer ia the article published by the
Fargo Times Of August 10th last. 1t would
look and show far more evidence of intend
ed .truthfulness il Desaulles (bntshis term
gets me. Does the writer intend to use the
word dessoller-tc unmask or desoler-to
lay waste; or desale-unsalted. His cow.
ardly nom de plume is too indefinite to be
at all expressive), had quoted from my let.
tiers to the department or elsewhere any ex-
pressions that betrayed the least spirit of a
personal character or malice. All that l
have ever said has been over my v
signature, and l have nothing to take back
except should it be shown to me conclu-
sively that l have made q mistatement then
I shall be the first to acknowledge it, and
only he too glad to do 40. This ia not said
with any sanctimonous air, aud | think all
who know me will not charge me with pos
sessing u great amount ofthat element. The
article of August 30th, referred to by your
correspondent, contained but a few words OF
my own, but was mostly q copy Of a letter
of Capt. Bennett, commander at Fl. Sisse-
ton, showing how others looked upon the
treatment Of those Indians, as we'll al my.
self.
The townsite of Richmond I.had in my
mind for years, and I never had for a mo-
ment an idea of making a location at Scat
tered Goose's camp, or any other point ON
the James river thar Richmond. The con-
versation reported as occurring at Water
town never did occur, with me or any one
interested with me in the least. All the
talk about my visit to the Sisseton agency
is utterly false. Every word l said to an
Indian when there, was to impress upon
their minds the importance Of their doing
no harm to any one, and to persuade them
out of the idea of a reservation but to
accept their homes, and outside of that, say
every alternate one quarter section, if they
could make such arrangements with the
government, to be held as their OVID, indi'
vidually, as they settled and improved the
same, and has been done by their red breth.
rem at Nandreau and elsewhere. This ]
convinced them was their only
security for permanent home,
feeling, as l did, that if they
did get a reservation set apart for them, they
could hardly get settled before some plar
could be cooked up to have them removed
in keeping with the past history of similar
cases, which could not be done if they set
tied as individuals and become citizens like
other people. 1 had in view, in this coun'
Gil, equal and exact justice to all parties in
terfsted, the whites as we'll as the indiana
for I saw the injustice and hardships o
forcing the whites away from their home
as we'll as the Indians, and this would be il
harmony with article 9Th Of the treaty O
March 18th 1866 and not in violation Of til,
military. order Issued to them at Fl. Bic
after the cessation of hostilities growing GU
of the Indian troubles Of 1852, durinI
which time these Indians were our true al
lies. fighting our battles for US, and eve
hayeshssn our friends in peace and Wal
The insinuating reference to Kansas il fa
fetched. The colored children Of Topek
are now attending the public schools ther
like the white children, after long an
desperate struggle to see justice done, SIM
lag etos he eass-ef shsse Indians,gapd q
douhs ssery misds SdEt
that brt, asare fighting the effort fpd
jd1isstos 3sattasSl qssss sad.band; ID
ssnilaisSiH N1ise$o 0suhsrsI have bee
IshanshS1e tG1Ake tksstrouble. to1nsbr,
him that there is NOT, to my knowlsdge,S
, single white farmer settler nov residing
} Dakota that vas within its limits when
entered. the territory twenty-five years az
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