Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-17

| ness and WepkneSs, only ugnt Whlte
men when they cannot avoid It, Or
when some outrage is done the race
which the veriest coward would resent.
| GOLD AND vENGEANCE.
| The story went abroad and pene-
| trated the cupidity of the departments
at Washington that there was gold in
the Black Hills. The mighty interior
and war fellows agreed that the coun-
try needed much exploration, and an
armed force was at once hurried into
the Black Hills. The Indians were
outraged. Buffalo herds were driven
of these intruders were killed. The
pretext was perfect, and Custer went
to his doom.
COL. CHivINGToN.
had been reading of the "Danville
massacrer rs illuminated by the gem
ius of Sherman and aurora borealised
by Gorham, and having n passion for
hideous stories. thus cultivated by
of Chisholm, who, though q hard
case,'' had charming little
daughter unintentionally killed
by n drunken mob. He
thus won much deserved sympathy
for his family. / then Went over the
facts of Mr.. Mathews case, made in
teresting because of my personal
knowledge of the peculiar virtues of
Mathews as well rs of Chisholm.
found IL true that aggressive, DOM
ineering men became very offensive
when conscious that great party,
welding the whole power of the gov
ernment, including Brewster, invests
the offensive individual with sort of
moral absolutism. The late Governor
Davis OF Texas was thoroughly inn
bued with that domineering selfhood,
springing from this investiture of
himself with this despotic authority
In Texas In narrower sphere
smaller men of MS violent temper and
domineering spirit would have enacted
their little comedies, which were only
tragical because exceedingly farcical.
A REVOLVING sToRy.
Do YOU remember The story of Col.
Chivington ? / have 1t before me
read, and you will forget that Dam
Vile was ever stained with holy
blood, or that Mathews or Chisholm
ever enacted roles of local bullies, or
that Ellis Pinkston cussed Sherman
when she died unwept within felon's
cell
Chivington was n colonel. He as
saulted an Indian village one morning
about daylight. Samuel q. Galley,
Indian agent, In his sworn statement
before a senate commltte, says:
"rhe Indians when fir-t assaulted
made some.resistanct; some the chief,
however, did not lift an arm and only
stood up To be shot down. One of
them, Black Kettle, even raised the
United States flag aud then n white
Il. lyfi
posed. The Indians retreated up the
creek, were pursued and butchered
and scalped and mutilated as brutally
Ms Indians ever did white men. They
We're cut TO pieces in every manner
and form.n
"The officers told me
after the butchery that they saw little
| babes killed by the soldiers. Colonel
| Shupe was in command of the regi-
ment, Colonel Chivington was in
| chief commando
Facts given in these papers shock
human credulity. Women, the wit
nesses say, were violated after being
shot down. Skulls of infants and
children were broken against stones
and in the presence of dying mothers.
These Indians, when attacked, were
on land given them by the govern
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over them foated the stars and stripes.
WHY rs II?
Yes, why is 1t that politicians and
placeseekers and their frightful or
gans, having all these facts before
their bleared blood shot eyes, cannot
see them, and only the half dozen
negroes and two or three absurd white
people who have fallen at The hands Of
| tnl. In hu South. N
what Is IT, u greater crime
TO Kill five negroes at Danvi,ie than II
| few hundred red men out west. If
Democracy be responsible in the one
case, Republicanism is in the other.
! The vast weight of savage brutality
rests upon the eminently godly party
| of grand moral ideas.u TO these was
Custer sacrificed And then there are
only few thousand Indians scattered
over a vast district, and collisions are
few, but down South there aresix mill
| lions of blacks and contact IL hourly
and universal. It's wonder the fight
there ever ends, and that the whole
South is not Il Dauyille. Sherman and
Malone would made Ii such. Their
purpose and policy require bloodshed
and violence, and therefore their APP
peals to race antagonisms Having
finished the red, they would now ami
hilate the black race, and they adopt
the only means of precipitating the
end.
THE GENEROUS LAWYER.
a correspondent writing from Aus
tin, Texas, asks for the name of the
lawyer who defended so generously
and ably the You & man prosecuted 50
fiercely by Brewster Cameron. l don't
suppose there Is any harm in telling
that the lawyers name is Hill, aud
that he Is now esteemed of the ablest
members Of the bar OF Texas. His
home is now In Gainesville.
III. LANHAlIs SPEECH.
The house-and ii is an extraordi-
nary fact when a young member APP
appears--listened intently while Mr..
Lanham addressed the body He
WAS first watched closely because
new member; the house was curious
to know what he contains and how he
can Use II. This laudable curiosity
was soon merged into profound inter
est, aud no man turned away
TO write or gossip or stare at
gods and goddesses of the gallery or to
con over newspapers while Lanham
occupied the floor. / observed, too,
that members from Texas watched the
orator and the audience most mar
rowly and earnestly, and when the
end came i saw that most OF these
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