The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-01-19
III


Sic transit-an ambulance.
The Whitaker court is ordered to
assemble on Thursday next.
A Cree Indian who arrived at
Abrams, Battle river, last week from
Cypress Hill reports that two weeks
before six half breeds and thirty Crees
were killed in an engagement with the
Sioux.
The Army and Nary Journal, devotes
eight pages of its issue Of Jan. s., to a
description, with numerous wood-cut
illustrations, Of J. H.. McLean's "Peace-
makers" The article shows that the
more deadly the implements of war,
the more rapidly actions are decided
and the smaller are the percentages of
loss of life.
Gen. Schoield: SIT is impossible for
me to give up the old West Point rule
of giving every fellow a fair chance and
making him hoe his own row. 1 do
not know how to make officers of an
army by lifting up the meek and lowly.
1 would do all in my power to lift them
up, but il they could not get up without
lifting / would take care not to put
them in command Of troops"
Senator Garland, on the part of the
congressional members of the board of
visitors to West Point military acade-
my, has submitted a report signed by
himself and Representative Phillips,
another signed by Senator Edmunds.
and still another signed by Representa-
tives Mckinley and FELTON,. Senator
Garland's report was accompanied by a
bill amendatory of the laws relating to
the military academy. Senator Gar
land and Representative Mckinley de-
voted considerable space to the consid-
Grafton Of the question of the admis-
sion Of colored cadets to the academy.
They say that they spent some time in
examining this question, and in doing
so took the testimony of several wit
nesses touching the late trouble with
| Cadet Whitaker. In this ~investiga-
tion they were led back to consider, to
some extent, the conduct, bearing, as
sociation and in fact the general status
of other colored cadets that had been
at the academy. This was done only
for the purpose Of a~scertaining whether
the academy would prosper by the ming
ling together of cadets Of two different
races. No solid reason, they say, can
be assigned why colored boys should
not receive full and equal advantages
in the way of education in military and
all other kinds with the whites, but on
the contrary there is every reason that
they should. 1t is a fact, however, that
the mingling of white and colorcd ca
diets on terms Of social equality is sub
ject to continued drawbacks and trouble
which are so far inherent that in their
judgment no regulation of the law a
control them. If it be deemed expedi-
ent to continue further this co-educa-
tion in the same institution this dis
turbance, while depressed SO far as wise
discipline can touch it, must, after all,
be left for its cure to time and expert
ence, which may result in the mitiga-
ton OF separation of the two races in
their military education. Senator Ed
munds, in his report, is of the opinion
that the standard admission ought to
be raised. The investigation made by
the committee convinced him that the
youths Of the African race have not
received the same treatment, at least,
from their fellow cadets that they
would have received had they been of
white rae But each colored boy had
found himself continually isolated
from his fellow cadets-a prisoner in
solitary confinement in the midst of his
fellow cadets. 1t is obvious, he con-
tinues, that under such circumstances,
a colored boy could not succeed nearly
so well as other boys in his studies and in
competition for the honors of his school,
or in fitting himself for future useful
ness. The tendency of such treatment.
he thinks, would be to repress good and
develop the evil qualities Of his COM
mon human nature. There is no rea-
son, he says, why two races cannot
succeed together in this institution as
they do in many schools and universi-
ties in this and other countries. The
officers and cadets of the academy all
come from every phase Of American
life, and meet on equal ground; and
while it may be conceded that no law
can rectify the evil referred to, he be-
lieves such curse of practice as has
existed towards cadets is unjust, I'M