The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-08-09
WEEKLY BAZOO.
SEOALlA, Mo-,
TUESDAY, AUGUST 9. 1851.
10, THE POOR INDIAN.

10, THE POOR INDIAN.
The Indian question again stares
the American people in the face.
Every summer the brave warrior puts
on his war paint, sharpens his toma-
hawk and whets his scalping knife to
razor like sharpness. Then he scours
the illimitabIe plains Of the west.
Any poor. unfortunate pale face who
may encroach upon his domains. is
sure to lose not only his scalp but his
life as we'll. Hundreds Of people are
uassacred in cold blood every sum-
ner, and the Indian devils revel in
the crimson gore that flows from the
veins Of their dying victims. They
tear the reekiug scalp from the head
Of the still living body and flaunt it,
dripping with the warm blood, de-
sanity in the face of the soldiers and
tauntingly laugh as they see them
shudder. In the dark hours Of night
they steal upon the corral of the
wearied emigrant or upon the lonely
Eanche of some herder and then fol-
lows scene that beggars description.
Appeals for mercy are in vain.
They may as we'll be addressed to the
granite heart Of the Rocky Mountains,
Is to the red fiends who answer their
appeals with the fierce war whoop,
and drag their prisoners from their
beds, and with fendish glee sink the
tomahawk to the eye in their brain.
The other day a party of surveyors
we're wantonly massacred in the state
Of Chihuahua by band of Apaches.
The government may make show of
Furnishing the savages. A handful of
troops will be sent out into country
that they know nothing of, to hun, Il
foe to whom every inch of the ground
is we'll known, and to whom the secret
secesses of the mountains are open as
day. The Indians will commit every
manner of crime during the pleasant
summer months, but as soon as the
whistling winds proclaim the advent
Of winter they will HE away to the
nearest agency and there draw supplies
Tor their winters sustenance from the
very government against whom they
have been fighting. And as soon as
spring again opens they return to the
war path to re-enact the scenes Of blood,
rapine and murder.
When war is once proclaimed
against the Indians it should be war
determination. The Indian policy
efour government is absurd. They
assume that lot of worthless, lazy,
greasy vagabonds have great rights
and privileges. The sentimentalists
Of New England claim that it is only
through moral suasion that We can
reach the tender points of the red
savage. The Indian is an impedi-
ment to civilization. He occupies
lands that white men are anxious to
cultivate and to bring them under the
taxable control of the government.
He will neither cultivate the rich
plains nor allow a white man to do
50. So long as he does this he should
be treated as foe to society. The
poetic idea that the Indians were the
aboriginal owners of this country is
absurd. The idea that we are dis
possessing them OF their hereditary
tight and title is ridiculous. They
stole it from the mound builders who
IN turn stole it from some preceding
race. So long as the red man refuses
to accept the inevitable; 80 long as
he refuses to bow to the die
sates Of civilization; SO long
- he de6es the mandates of our gov
eminent, 50 long as he continues
his course of murder and pillage, just
10 long must he be. considered
IS IN enemy to our govern
zaent and must be treated Is q com
mon criminal. He should receive the