The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1873-07-18 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE M-ODOCS.  To Ow &Him of the " antral Glamorgan Ga:ette."  Whether the Modoc tribe is a slice of the old Kymric stock or no. I will not attempt to say; but the name of the tribe has been before our Itepublican eyes frequently lately, and there are a few facts connected with the Modocs which render them objects deservinn of sympathy and forbearance. The United States is hard on Indians, and while they were in their torn tcle lately, they hired the Warm Spring Indians to assist the it .s. troops in hunting them down. We have had "a Modoc war," and Ipresume von have read the details. Now the war is ended. The Indians are prisoners—the renowned Captain Jack and his allies are safe in quod, and great is the exultation amongst many as to their situation, and ninny are the villanous conjectures as to their ultimate fate in this life. The officers of the Government had ordered the military officers "to exterminate the tribe." Why? Because the Mottoes murdered General Canby. Why did they murder General Canby ? Listen! "When Captain Jack was ahoy the Modocs became involved in war with the whites who were scouring the country in search of gold. A reckless ruffian, named Ben Wright, took the field with a company of men. Not succeeding in the border warfare as well as he wished, he proposed to the Moak chiefs a council to make a lasting treaty. The leaders consented and came in. Captain Wright told them to bring in all their warriors that they might celebrate their treaty with a big feast, The Indians gathered iii great numbers, laid down their arms, and at a signal Wright and his men fell upon them and murdered them without mercy. Captain 'Wright boasted that he bad made " a permanent treaty with at least a thousand Indians." That story is correct as told by Joaquin Miller, an adopte, one time, in the Ithaloc tribe. That day has been a sort of Bartholomew's Eve for them, and they never tire of brooding and mourning over the bloody and brutal event. Mr. Miller says he has heard them tell the story a hundnsl Unica around their camp fires, and their mournful narratives would fill a volume. Captain Jack was a boy when the white men taught him how to treat a flag of truce, and that the massacre of Indians in council was kgitimate warfare. They were brought up on the memory of that slaughter. Again, three years ago, the Modocs were living peacefully and prosperously in Yreka Reservatioa. At a peace conference proposed to consider the cession of their lands to the Government, two of their chiefs were treatberously shot down, one of them being Caotain .Tack's own brother.  The Indians have not forgotten those massacres, neither when two years ago, thirty white men made attack on a peaceful Modoc camp, in which four Indians were killed and many severely wounded. It wax to revenge that act, and in despair of justice at our hands in the matter of a pnaised reservation t hat they entered on the war which they have its !rarely uwiTied on. But even now we have not all .•UT Indian lorismom, IMt some only. The rest have Imen murdered again, nmrdered most foully. Seventeen captives, men, women, and children, wor,,)„,tkg :101",'i the oetintry. %whiled together in a waggon, tlleir glum! conveniently ia the rear. There rode up two 1-41,-gon volunteers who overpowered the shiver, ond then fired shot after ,hot into the wageon, lailisuL the '.tuarmel men, and wounding smile at hart ol the women. It was an onthronk f that devilidt contempt fur the rights of nil inferior woes which sorins the lasetting sin of Anglo Sasons in America as well mi in Great Iffritain. Were the two volunteers •caught Oh no ! tekgruno, answer. "No steps uwa taken for the apprehen dun f the murderers." Bad ! Who t:111lit the Indian's this disrespect to the, truce flag Where are the white murderem Free ! Who is the gassier party—the Indians or the pale faces': Thus the Medoc taibet has !wen wiped off from the face of the earth, with the exception of a few who are in 57741 le'ranni6n4ii in nbange of General Oavics, who iutendeol to di Tose of Vtein 6umniarily had not a desi-atch from Attorney C.neral Wil!ivms (a Welshman, aad a splendid (lov,rr: 'sit officer% baulked him d ,211 t 117,4 (Fie course of trial 24slai 412440. s