The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-04-28

The father says this as he comes
You shall live, he says. as he comes.
You shall live. he says, as he comes.
They were to veal a light carmen
like d hunters rock which. after be-
ing sanctified, was believed TO be bull
let-prOOf.
These ceremonies lasted sometimes
for four TO five days and the warriors
were fully initiated in the mysteries
OF the new faith as taught by the So
called Messiah.
These men all returned to their
various reservations proclaiming the
glad tidingS that the Messiah had re-
turned to earth and they had met him
face to face: they announced to their
relatives and friends what they a
learned, fully convinced themselves
and convincing others that what they
a seen and heard was true. Moth
ing could so thrill the very souls of an
oppressed people as these glad tidings
from the Messiah, brought to them by
their own trusted messengers. These
relations were received by the In
dian tribes with unspeakabie joy and
Thanksgiving, with the widest demon
STATIONS they manifested their graft
tude to the great spirit.
Sitting Bull Convinced.
When this doctrine reached the
waiting tribes of Indians on the re-
turn Ol lHolI eInlSSdTloS, Sucn persist
ent enemies of the white race as Sit
ting Bull and other hostile war chiefs
Immediately prepared not only to car
ry out the designs of the SO-called
Messiah, but to assemble large bodies
of Indians and move tOward the set
ting sun to welcome him in his tri-
umphant march of devastation across
the continent. Sitting Bull, the great
war chief and head center of all the
different tribes in the northwest and
even into Canada, notifying them Of
the design for a general uprising Of ali
Indian tribes and calling up them to
assemble in the Bad Lands of South
Dakota, known as the ''MauvaiseS
Terres.' That district of country was
an ideal Indian stronghold more than
100 square miles in area, the toughest,
most precipitous and inaccessible Of
any on the continent, the object being
to make that the general rendezvous
for all the hostile Indians of the great
northwest country. This was to be
followed by a righteous crusade over
the country moving toward the set
ting sun, devastating the scattered set
Elements and opening the way for the
coming of the Messiah as he moved
: east in accordance with his promise
The conspiracy a spread over {
l vast extent Of country and the mos
serious Indian war of our history wa:
imminent. In fact, the peace Of az
s area of country equal to an empire
f was in peril. The states of Nebras
ka. the two DakOtas, Montana, Wyom
ing, Utah, and Nevada were liable t,
e be overrun by a hungry, wild hord'
= of SaVageS. The ndian would have
: III what they believed to be a righteou
v crusade, looted the scattered home
and lived and travelled upon the do
g mestic stock of the settlers. Pillag
would have been followed by rapin
e and devastation"
The general dissatisfaction anon
, the Indians was primarily caused b
s the manner in which the government
and disregarded their interests an
caused them to become hostile to tn
II whites. Boiled down the general VI
rising, says General Miles, wa
y brought about by three main reasons
q "First-Insufticient food resultin
n from failure Of the government to flu
- fill it's. treaty Obligations"
"Second-Utter failure of the Ir
"a dian crops for that and the precedin
l year.
IN Observation-Disclosures fanaticism an
"A false prophecies ~engendered by d.
20 signing white men and the delusioI
o. of a man pretending to be a messiah
n Starvation and Sorrow.
Continuing General Miles say
1.-The religious excitement, ~aggravate
by almost starvation, was bearir
q fruit. The Indians said they had be
ter die fighting, than die a slow deaf
from starvation. They had traded a
at most everything they had for arm
r ammunition
LII In November, 1890, hostilities we
assumed by more than 5000 Indian
of leaving their reservation. destroyil
ed their habitatiOns and agricultural If
an plementS, and, moving to the b
he Lands of South Dakota preparatory
ed the assembling of all the hostile ]
Id dams and a general crusade again
is the white settlements. To Countera
m this movement a strong GORDON
Id troops was thrown around the B;
ms Lands to hold the hostiles in che
and prevent reinforcements reachil
them, as it was the design of Gene1
90 Miles to anticipate the movements
if the dial and arrest or overpoW
h. them in detail before they had tir
m to concentrate in one large body. a