The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-04-04

for points Of observation: he met the wild
beast and subdued him: he met the saw
| age Of the plains and the hills, and in his
| own person gave notice of his sovereign
| ty in Skill in cunning and in courage. To
| the red man he was the voice of fate
Connected with Captain Hills military
| service, under General Carson, and i'm
mediately supplementary thereto, was a
curious incident with political bearing.
me incident throws strong side light on
the change of policy toward the southern
| leaders and people, whereby his famous
dictum, Traitors must take back seat"
| wis surprisingly reversed, and the olive
branch substituted for the iron heel Of
revengeful punishment of our "errfng
brethren
The most plausible and generally ac-
copied theory for this is that President
Johnson, his proud spirit not unnaturally
ranking under the odium of coming from
that despised and unlettered southern
class the poor whites" on becoming,
through Lincoln's assassination, the head
OF the nation, was bound to "score his IN
nlngs with the men who had disdained
MIN and his class, but was placated and
influenced to "about face" by the diplo-
matte assurance from delegation of
southern leaders, who called on him at
the white house, that his elevation to the
chief magistracy had established his So
clal status above even the most aristo-
cratic elements of the south
Bids Adieu to Carson.
In the spring Of 1866. Captain Hill re-
signed the captancy, and bidding COR
roWful adieu to General Carson at Fort
Union. started for his Maine home town.
At st. Joseph, Mo-, where the train
made brief halt, he went into the near
est clothing store and bought citizens
suit. He wanted dark suit, but the deal
er just then was out of that line of goods
SO the captain made a Hobsons choice Of
selecting a gray suit, about the shade of
confederate gray, but just trif1e lighter
He also bought wide brimmed light
drab felt hat, such. as was common in the
south. All of which he donned, had his
uniform done up in stout paper, and re-
sumed his seat in the car.
1--WE crossed the Ohio river at Wheeling,
w. Fa.," said Captain Hill, '.at which
point went into the smoking car and sat
down. There was no one in the car when
l entered 1t, but soon after leaving Wheel
Ing station a party Of five men came in
ana seated themselves near me. I looked
them over, and readily made up my mind
that they were not only out-and- out
southerners in sentiment but were a DEL
egation of representative men bound on
some sort of political business For. YOU
80 10y "SAo sinai AoohlHS ana aT-
peared cultured and refined; in fact.
seemed like public men; they acted like
persons having one idea in common and
their garb was Of southern style and
color.
AT first they eyed me sharply, as II
sizing me up politically and geographical
ly. Pretty soon the gentleman who sat
nearest to me courteously asked me who
was and where from. Although hate
duplicity, it is a needed factor in war
and politics, and I resolved to do lit
tie harmless masquerading. So I gave
him fictitious name, told him I was
from Texas and had served as a ueuten-
ant under Sibley. AS knew all about
the confederate General Sibley had no
difficulty In making my companions be-
lieve I was what I pretended to be.
Thenceforth everything was lovely.