Year: 1866

take the time to mention.


But, Mr.. Chairman, suppose 1t
has cost thirty-fvc thousand dollars
for each Indian killed; is it not the
duty of the State to protect all her
citizens, when she cannot command
that protection from elsewhere Z
And will We stickle for the few dol
lars, more or less, it may cost is
not the life of one citizen worth four
fold the amount? Nations have,
in days gone by, expended millions
for one devoted head. That gov
ernment which cannot protect all
its citizens, does not deserve to be
dignified with the name of govern
ment. The Senator says he iavors
the substitute, because it prescribes
the amount of transportation-one
six mule team and one two mule
teams to each battalion. Does he
stop to consider the means OF trans.
portation, when our women and
children are daily butchered, and
our frontier counties, once prosper
GUS, are now being depopulated? =?
Does he doubt the ability of our
Governor to make good selections
of commanding officers? Does he
doubt his integrity and dctermlna-
ton in compelling those officers to
control all their movements in such
manner as will rebound to the best
interest of the whole State? Then
why trammel the bill with these
unnecessary incumberances?


I fear there is an under current
in all this, perhaps it is the deter
mination to so emasculate this bili,
that it will topple to pieces of it's
own incoherence. To cut off, and
add too, until its author would be
unable to recognize his own bant-
ling. But will take the Senator
on his own proposition, and asl!
him to pause for one moment and
reflect. The minority report pro
vidcs for one thousand men, they
must, to be effective, be placed from
twenty-five to one hundred miles
beyond our agricultural settlements,
defending line of over seven hun
dred miles. I ask him in the name
of reason if three six mule and
three two mule teams are sufficient
to transport the supplies and camp
and garrison equipage of this COM
mand. The proposition is too pre-
posterous to be entertained, and
needs but to be stated to be refuted.
But if he is determined to insist up
on retaining this feature of the bill,
which he claims to be the great
safety valve of the treasury, at the
proper time l shall offer to amend
by inserting three wheel-Ja1roDs.


l am accused by the honorable
senator from Jasper of acting a
theatrical part, cannot better re
ply, than did William Pitt, to Sir
Robert Walpole, "a theatrical part
may either imply some popularity
of gesture, or dissimulation of my
real sentiments and an adoption OF
the opinions and language of an
other man. In the first place the
charge is too triAing to be confuted,
and desires only to be mentioned to
be despised. x * * X


Il 4; The heat that Offend
ed him was the ardor of conviction,
and that zeal for my country which
neither hope nor fear, shall influence
me to suppress"


In conclusion let me, make one
moro appeal to this honorable body
in behalf of those who are not able
to protect themselves. Day after
day we receive the intelligence of
new and more horrible outrages,
perpetrated by the'savages. Not a
breeze is waited from that frontier,
but is loaded with sounds of distress,
the widows wall, the virgins Shrek
and the infants trembling cry
Where, but yesterday, all was joy
and happiness, now reigns devasta-
ton and ruin. There was the home
of the hardy and enterprising pion-
eer, here he had invested his scanty
means to rear for himself a home
and a shelter for o e, whom per-
haps in youth he loved, now his
companion in life. Here his stall
wart arm felled the first forest giant,
his rude, though practical hand,
hewed the sill, and his humble cot
tage is reared in the wilderness, on
a spot where the grass had never
been bent. except by the tread Of
the red man. Here around the
hearthstone of his rustic home be
gathers his wife and little ones, de-
flying the howl of the wIntrv blast
, sweeping around him. The wife oi
his bosom, the children of his loin,
all, all, content in this simple home
And how happy at even tide, when
the daily work is over, when in the
bosom ofhis loved family, he can for.
get the. tolls and struggles of life
there seated at his own hearth-stone,
with his prattling babes bounding
over his knees, and the partner OF
his bosom at his side, what king in
his palace more happy?


But this scene of happiness and
content cannot last; the blood-thir.
ty savage is lurking near; soon his
terrible war-whoop will fearfully
startle those now 50 happy and
seemingly secure; soon that once
delightful home will be a heap OF
smouldering ashes; soon the musi
cal voices Of those innocent prattleri
will be hushed in death, and thai
darling wife will linger in hopeless
captivity, worse a thousand time:
than death. Yes, gentlemen, this
scene is no fancyssketch it is bui
the picture Of realities that daily Oc
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