Morning journal and courier., 1891-11-20
next storm would be rain or snow, where to dig

next storm would be rain or snow, where to dig | Like Mog he despised book Indians and claim | ed the birds alone told the Indian all he ought to the ai PIant your the chickadee 'Pick your corn;" the wild goose :.Honk-conk was s'Warm toes" put on the bsarskin moccasins, when going north Governor Quashs opinion of printers ink was sustained by the only poet East Haven has pro duced within many days and time One Fourth of July the Rev. Stephen Dodd delivered an ora ora having spent the night with John Barley Corn, not to be outdone in patriotism, stood upon the horse block in East Haven and threw pocket t The local paper attributed his generosity to Santa Cruz rum, which charge he resented in a this admonition to the rising generation:
 Void printers ink; it lies like hell.
 All hail the Rev. Stephen Dodd
 The papers make him out god.
 But when he's laid beneath the sod
 You'll fad he's naught but Stephen Dodd."
 Why Quash was called Gov we never knew, but froIa tke fact that he always wore yellow buck skin waistcoat we concluded it was to distin- guish hin from Governor Johnson, who was at that time governor of the negroes of Connecti-
 At all evenrs he felt himself quite a superior him when he wished and the clans when he walked over the flats would squirt up water in m ready for to dig h fact he was nine mir Ton shanter "o'er all the ills of life vic torious''
 Happy wet; happy dry; glad, to live; glad to die. His white and negro blood had neutralized | the veno nous blod of the Indian.
 | In my youth read glowing accounts of the 1 many fine traits of the Red man, and so con- eluded that the drunken vagabonds who came yearly ssto salt'' at old Fort Wooster were the | degenerate scions of illustrious sires. So in often years as came upon the Indians in | his wild state studied his character. l made no claim to have met the best type or their race, hut will name some of those have seen and my impressions: The Seminole, at his 1 nee of the La Platte; the Sioux and Chippewa of the northwest,
 1 this is my impression ot the Indians have seen, with the exception of few Chippewas | by fear of the law of tn. white man.
 l In their wild state q use the expression of a the wolves,'' and as General Sherman said, "A good Indian is a dead Indian"
 1 Their treatment should be that of the wolves | eXtermination-and the sooner the better. | An, my friends, see you are surprised at my l language. l allow they have beed wronged anC cheated, but the fact that, they are murderers | that they have tortured and murdered innocent men, women and helpless children for the las two hundred yt ars, throws them outside the pale wolves, that the government have for the las three years been so tender of, sending then | around to the health rcsortS of the country an( feeding them upon government rations, murder ed upon the American side of the Sierra Madr, I over UICeeQ nuDQreQ WQOSo names are on EecOTu l and on the Mexican side over three thousand.
 One of the last acts of this band before sur rendering was to surprise a train of Pennsylvani. emigrants and after torturing the men to deatl with their fiendish ingenuity fastened the womel aud children to the wagon wheels with wire
 then setting fire to the wagons left them to slow | ly roast They even wired the baby to it
 mothers breast and so they were found tk
 next day, the half burned wagon wheels festoone l with blackened mumInieS of innocent helpless
 ness. In 1861 Little Crow led his Sioux friend l down npon the frontier towns of Minnesota 1 murdered over twelve hundred settlers. I my | self saw the fence rails upon which women an | children were impaled, then planted upright i
 the ground and left writhing in death agony. I saw barn doors to which and wome
 were nailed then tortured by slow fire. Som
 of these devils were hung, but most of ther were pardoned through the intercession c
 Bishop Whipple. who went to Washington an
 interceded with the authorities to deal tenderl
 with their wayward wards and so they wer sent to the government hote's in Florida an supported like our invalid soldiers with the e2 | cepton that the soldiers pension is made t | contribute to his support.
 l Could you sit by a frontier mans hearthSton l and listen to the weird tales of Indian atrocities | it would require more than the gifte ! pen of Fennimore Cooper the peadings
 addleheads (who seem to find object of pit and mercy in every unco umonly pittileSS mu
 derous wretch) to convert you over to the belle
 that the noble red man was anything more tha
 devzed wolf.
 Come, my friend now for home and our ne1
 stroll will be to the Palisade park, when I wi , l tell you tale If the Treasure Trove" fouu there lin the days that are old and in the yea l that have rolled away.r