The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1881-09-08
More indian Policy.

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from the Indian county two COM
pspies Of cavalry aud a Brevet Ma
j"r General wiped ont ~ a twinkling
ss though the earth had opened and
gulped them down
1t is not casy to imagine low this
bloody thing could happen under
tho circumstances as the telegraph
furnishes thcu. An officer is shot
while tying To arrest an Indian in
retaliation the troops open fire aud
k,ll tho lpdian then the massacre
begins, Tho incomprchensible
thing is that two companies ofcaval-
ry under aims could bs completely
nnnihilated or even worsted in a
fight with Indians whose whole
fighting strength ID reported at four
Eundred men. There was no such
surprise az when Custer and his
men were mnssacred Oh the Little
Big Horn without chance !or their
lives. The fact that there was q
force with or near Lieutenant Cruise
when bc went to arrest the medicine
man shows that trouble was uct un
expected and that preparation had
been made for it Evidently there
is an essential part Of the story yet
to be told While we wait for that
TO ome the simple fact of the butch
cry is sicsening enough.
How long are these massacres to
go on !and can tue corntry afford 10
feed its bravo men by the iOz;u and
bv the hundred TO the hungry saw
ages : II q band OF indians becomes
80 unruly that its blood. thirsty rro-
peusities can 10. bs ropressed without
military force. why not at once make
such demonstration OF force as will
command its good behavior : But
that is not the way we go about it
We wait until our men have been
Plaip then the kilograms fly back
and forth-this Captain telegraphs
TO that Colonsl commiuliug, that
Colonel adds something and hurries
il off to Chicago. where il takes on
something more aud fuslly reaches
Washington. Then message is
started back, troops are set 10 mo-
ton, everything is sstir, aud for
while wherever we see au Indian
head we bit it. Even this post
NOR en- vigor does not recall from
death the brave men sho have fallen,
por doos i, sst.le the Indian gues-
tion
There is something wropg-radi-
cally wroug-with q policy which
makes these butcheries possible.
Clusters men were sacrificed to it,
and now Carr Len have gone to
Join them. The Indians are not
f,irly treated. The Government
settles them on reservations under
treaties, and hustles them OF at the
poiut OF the bayonet The Indian
Agent robs them-incenses them I
with scsnt supplies and provisions
ft ioI NO bunan beings stomach.
With his birth the Indians wrongs
begiu, aud when tue moment for re-
vepge arrives he strikes with q saw
age IN sdness which vindicates bis
right to every epitbet that describes
b human devil.
II is time TO have done with this
policy and it's outcome. No matter
what the cause OF Indian outbreaks
the lag Of self-preservation compsls
rs to protect ourselves aud il we
cannot impress the Indians with the
Justice OF our acts We must repress
taem with the force Of our arms. |
Bot the Indian cannot be triaod
with and solsmnly lied to s0d gen.
srslly kicked around withoat know,
log Il sod hitting bick when be can.
When we deter mine 10 treat Tue
Indisu With justice, though IL bs
severe justice, in may be that oor
g liant soldiers will meet . nobler
tase, and the two races may discover
that contact 10 cot necessarily death .
to one Of ttsn.-Phiia. Pyess.