The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-22

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] Ions OF war and superior food loses the
/ battle?. Did United States soldiers ever
Mhlp me Indians without they outnum-
| nel9 mem and then lost more men
| than the Indians? Most often
soldiers have been forced to withdraw by
! smaller number Of inferior armed In
dams. The Indian is a trained warrior,
| trained to face danger and avoid il. not
| trained to drill There is some difference
between shooting at a target and stand
| ING 70 be shot at. The Indians don't he
| IeVe IN iighting against himself. although
tneir police do it, and do it well. Soldiers
| out west don't fight much but Indians.
| The Indians who are leaving the army
| nave, dare say, never had a fighting tilt
| against any enemy. NapOle0n's greatness
| was MS ability to win, and he didn't stop
| at the means Of doing it either Iventure
| the assertion, with equal arms and mu-
/ niuCn with good food on their native
| meath, one company of Indians would
! make living miserable for a whole regi-
| ment of soldiers If they didn't completely
! whip them. Its an old saying that they
| for the cowboys"
! once a company Of cavalry was in search
! OF Indians. They had halted and placed
| their mules and horses in a corral near
| by, camping and stacking arms. Two un-
| armed Indians, whom they were hunting,
| got into the corral, opened the gates, with
| a wave Of red shirts and triumphant
| yells, mounted on two lead
mules, they. in broad daylight drove off
| with the herd. The soldiers became COM
/ pany OF infantry. Time and again, as an
| act of defiance have their moccasin tracks
| been found within their midst, when day
| light came.
| AS soon as they are getting settled on a
| reservation, land sharks, squatters and
| others become clamorous for Il. declaring
1t TO be the richest in the section. Vows
| and treaties are forgotten, new ones are
forced upon them and they must give up
more land whicA Is gobbled greedily by
| tOwn-site agents buncO steerers and gam
blers, till they can unload on the gullable.
| The last treaty will remain in force till
more land IS wanted. My old friend, Chief
| Dead Head. who fought Gen. Harvey so
long IN the Black Hills country. told me
| he fought for principle only, and
gave UP because he saw that
when an Indian was killed, there
was no more to take his place and
he was gone: but when one soldier was
killed ten more were paid to take his
to get money in any way. The Indian has
no historian to record his deeds, while we
have interested trumpeters Of our own
ing whipped by smaller numbers
and In so saying do not mean that hon
orable military men can misrepresent eny
more than we all know our honorable
political parties con deceive and misrepre-
sent things TO the people. Indians fought
and fight for independence. Don't say,
petty independence" as do despots, VINO
make might right; say of Poland ami
Ireland and as they did when we claimed
independence for each petty state and
before that. when the states were colon
les. Had our people been wise and hon
est, posted in the history of nations and
acquainted with the human mind, which
Is not made to love through fraud and
brute force, many valuable lives, not to
mention the dollars, would have been
saved. 1t is a wonder to me, that Indians
are not fighting still; of course, they know
now it is useless. If one only knew the
many indignities heaped upon them by
selfish people and border ruffians they
could not blame them for lighting. Lat
the whites cease their war whoop ana
soon the Indian will forget his own. OBJ
| literate the war path with the path of
! a.1rr faA NAtI ~.
not say, as divine said of the Chinese.
whip them, and teach them a lesson
or civilize them at the bayonet point or
muzzle of the rifle thus sending
souls given them with foreknowledge by
q creator to eternal darnnation: Or, as Rev.
II. Bowman Stephenson said in an English
| Early History of America The Canaan
| ties of the New World" His article
shows his ignorance of the Indians,
! and does not correspond in tone and true
( religion to his education; and If he
| breaches that kind of religion, | am thank
| full to be outside of his church. There
was no need for him to cross the ocean
| for Canaanites, he might find few IN
/ his own congregation; he could, at least,
| streets, on the threshold of that civiliza-
| tion that claims to be the greatest the
| world has ever known, find more Canaa-
| mites than ever dwelt on all the western
| plains In these houses, under the very
shadows of costly church spires, there
/ can be seen actions of men and women
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| shame No Wilde Indian would ever be
| guilty of such crimes as at least two
! English barbarians have been convicted.
! The Indian will undergo for his religion,
torture and death, and not complain; the
| day, has past when the Snow-faced man
| will do as much for his.
A chief was once approached by mis-
| sionary asking TO establish a mission
] church in the nation ito make Christians
| Of then.'' VIII it make them sober, truth
| full and honest?" asked the chief. Yes, -
I 'bpr n npOnla
| stand your language and when you make
! them sober truthful and honest, and stop
them from worse than we are guilty of,
| then come back and you shall be welcome.
| Your Christian brings the deVil-water and
| with it. tempts my people; they cheat and
| swindle us; insult our wives and daugh-
| tiers; and if we resist, threaten us with
| destruction. ] will give no more privileges
| to the white man than I can help; he does
/ not practice what he breaches, and have
no reason to believe his religion is good
/ 'Dugald Stuart. in showing what influ-
erce name VIII have, says there is no
| reason why the Scotch language should be
| thought harsh and vulgar and the English
refined, other than that Edinburg is pro-
vincial town, while London is the capital
| and seat of ROYALTY The word poor or rio n
always gives Importance to man regard
less of merit or dement,. The Rev. John
Newton was led to the slave trade by a
single slyyogism of Aristotle thus the
black man was intended by God to be a
slave, the African is black, therefore, made
by his creator for slave" Cry mad dog
and though harmless a poor, starved stray
animal, receives a stone or a shot and is
pelted by all as he runs.
/ What is a savage? If ignorance makes
the savage, we are all in the same boat
for Sir William Hamilton, that genius of
| Literature and science, says, I'VE are
born in ignorance, live in ignorance, and
/ die in ignorance" George Washington
knew nothing of turnpikes. much less.
railroads, steamboats,. telegraph, or tel
e9fhone. If we could see 200 years hence
1 we would know, that now, we are ONLY
on the very outskirts of science and
knowledge.
If cruelty and murder constitute the
savage, the Christian carries the palm for
saVageryi and we may begin with the
Jirst two brothers on earth and trace acts
of exquisite cruelty and torture right uD
TO our own doors, where, too frequently