Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-17
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Sh,rmans Crocodllian Drops The
Color Line of Sympathy.
Tile Tale Of an Ox-With Dfsressions
on the Red Mans Wrongs,
But Niobe's fearful Vision Turns Only
to African Woes.
Lanham's Maiden Speech Political aad
Personal Gossip.
The National Capitol-Its Beauties and
Defermities.

DtltIHlitItSs
Special Correspondence of the Gazette.
w ashington, February SIT is aw-
fully wicked, of course, for a white man
to kill q darkey. Six million negroes
are here intermixed with the white
population of the South, and only q
few dozen are now and then put to
death. This pleasing reflection is sug-
gcsted by cursory review of the tes-
timony taken before senate and house
committees which chose TO inquire
into the matter of killing Indians.
was especially struck with
astonishment, after reading the
''sworn statements of men officers
and Indians and coming over the
pages of the Record OF the period, to
lind that neither John Sherman nor
Billy Malone shed tear while these
bloody deeds Were done and the re-
citals Haunted in the face of the sem
ate. If 'bloody-shirtsn had been thus
used John Sherman would have died
of broken heart, and Billy Malone
swooned in the arms of the granite
granny from Vermont.
A DREADFUL PICTURE.
read in one of the committee re.
ports substantially rs follows: That u
Mormon immigrant train passed Fort
Laramie on the old overland road to
the West. A broken-down OK was
abandoned to the wolves. a
band of hapless Brules I'm
dians) were encamped HARDLY,
and an Indian of another tribe, visit
ing these Brules, found and appro-
priated the valueless OK. The cunning
Yankee who had left the animal FOR
the wolves, finding that an Indian
had taken Ii, mt once appealed TO the
nearest military post demanding the
supposed value of the OK. Federal
law required the restitution of such
losses to be made out of the annuity OF
the Indian tribe that committed the
robbery. The post commandment sent
for the Brules chief, demanding the
person of the red man who had taken
the OK. The Brule said he had no
control over this Indian, and could not
surrender him, but the Brule offered
to pay two prices for the OK rather
| than have trouble with the
Great Father. The white man
was unappeased, and the Brule
camp was attacked and men, women
and children were intended tobe ruth
| lessly slaughtered. But this antici-
pates actual results. The Brule chief
had been warned not only 10y the post
communicate, but by II messenger whc
stated that the Brules were TO be at
tackled and destroyed This messenger
was drunk when he entered the Brnle
camp He took three bullets from his
mouth and presented them TO the
Brule chief, said, ave will come to
! give you these"
The white force came at the time
fixed. 1t consisted of twenty-five
men and three or four howitzers. The
old chief again appealed 10 their leader,
telling him that he could not deliver
the offending Indian of another tribe,
but said, ~ will give you all the
horses have for the OK and for peace
"No!r exclaimed the furious white
man, ~ must have the thief on we
must hght,n
The Brule turned away heart
stricken, and az he walked slowly TO.
wards his hut, he was shot in the
back. The white man who did the
deed is dead, and we need not name
him; but he was q white man, and n
red man was the victim, and neither
Sherman nor Malone have opened
their lips or dropped q tear or lifted
even a corner of the fatetul "bloody
Shirt
Then the infantry and artillery
opened fire upon the Indians. They
had been warned ana were prepared
for the inevitable. They left only one
white man living, and he expired
within twenty-four hours. Since the
victims of wrong aud folly and inso-
lence were white, this became in
: "history,n so.called, Il "massacre." II
the Indians had been put TO death IL
would nave been "victory,n and we
might have an equestrian monument
reared in some capilolne park in com
memoration of his valor--to say moth
ing. his whisky.
ooonvrss oF rttr CONFINEMENT.
oooD-'' go ~ - ~ 49,,
vi co if, .ne a sooc sote' Tharnsore IL
avehge lnis -, n'raat soIdier Of N a
happened .nat grea. ~, so'a oaut 70 ~ NM Lo
mead OF s,Iohs III uo va" ala Ia " wpori,
ish we niuts :,I ua ~ s,nd eigbtv
oraseiy a." ~ VIZ, c,nnn and ch,idren
,9nar ,he prnie country and he cbarg.
"a an the camp and put The whole
village TO death. In cold blood were
these innocent, helpless Sioux massa-
cred, and never have Malone or Jno.
| Sherman shed tear. When / was
coming over the story looked up In
To Senator Edmunds' face, and his
eyes were as dry US lis most eloquent
speeches.
| How lucky that Eliza Pinkston was
black IA the neither extremity of mid