The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-12-14
/. BIT OF HISTORY.
THE INDIANS o r.,a AxD VOW.

About the Year ia at Tie cummcmcr-
nent of the French am, English Val
the colonial government OF Massachu-
sets offered a bounty of S160 for each
Indian scalp. Taking into considera-
ton the relative values of money the
bounties then offered would be equal to
1920 at the present date.
What a sensation would be created
should the state government of Colora-
do or any of the territorial governments
offer $500 each for every Ute or Sioux
scalp brought into market? Were such
a proclamation made how business
would boom up for a while;in all proba-
bility the market would soon become
over stocked, the territorial treasury
empty and the Indian tribes decimated
if not eliminated, under the influence of
several wars waged for the acquisition
of territory and individual effort melted
by large bounties like the above men,
toned.
The New England tribes soon disap-
peared altogether, or were reduced to a
mere miserable remnant of their origi-
nal powers. AS soon as this condition
of affairs was effected, as soon as all
sense of peril was removed, when moth
ing more was to be apprehended from
savage violence, a sentiment of pity
sprang up in the New England breast,
and deep sympathy was everywhere
felt, or at least expressed for the I'M
tutored savage. And he now lives
in history a much abused individual
whose rights were disregarded, whose
lands were taken by violence and whose
very existence was terminated by the
intolerable oppression of a more power
full race. This sympathy for extinct
tribes is extended to those now living
or rather infesting the border in virtue
thereof. Whenever a collision occurs
between the settlers in the territories
and the savages, the eastern press re-
sounds with expressions Of sympathy
for the Indians and deep toned denun-
citation of their white oppressorS.
A vary natural question arises here:
If New England o. New York were
situated as Colorado and Wyoming are
would they act in a different manner?
If their territory was infested by pre-
datoIy brutes, liable at any moment, or
on the slightest provocation to destroy
their property OF to take their lives of
a..
their wives and children? | ask were
these sections of country thus situated
would they pursue ID different policy
from hat adopted, or desired, by the
state of Colorado and the territory of
Wyoming in reference to the existing
Indian difficulties? We can only Judge
of what the present would be in the
above circumstances by what the past
was. Human nature in New England
and elsewhere is much the same now as
in 1145 when a bounty was offered for
Indian scalps, and this after one of the
largest tribes in the country had been
almost e~xterminated in the Pequod,
Narragansett and King Philip war.
Human nature in the west is much
the same as in the east. More especial
~ as the west is peopled principally from
the eastern population. "Tis distance
lends enchantment to the view,'' espe-
cially when the American Indian is the
object viewed, he looks a great deal
better at a distance The more the
distance is increased the handsomer he
becomes, until when viewed through an
interval of two hundred years in time,
and a thousand miles in space, he be-
comes like Philip and Cononocus, a
great misty, underlined hero, Ia perfect
epitome of all the virtues in the moral
catalogue.
Notwithstanding the great sympa-
thetic heart of the FEAST which lpours
out coincidence like water for the poor
savage, we feel justified in the assertion |
that the untutored Ute may consider
himself exceedingly fortunate. that his
little failings were exhibited in the far |
west and not displayed in the refined
and sympathizing east, as in the latter |
case the last of the Utes might now be
the subject of song and legend.
Some. u~nprincipled dealers, because they
could see a few cents more profit, have been
guilty of Offering worthless substitutes for |
the only original and genuine Sulphur soap |
-Glenn's by name, Therefore, the public |
should guard against this deception, and
always ask for GLENNiS SULPHUR SOAP, |
bv its mi name. aud take no other.
Read the following evidence from n highly |
respectable source:
Detroit, Mich, August 9th, 1879.
c.. n. Crittenton,E Esq. I
Dear Sir:-I have travelled for three wears i
for Messrs Charles Scribner's Sons, publish /
ers, New Yak, and desire to inform you that \