Year: 1870

sion; all the forms of law must be scrupulOus- ly followed, as by statute made and provided or the whole people of the West must be held up to the eXacration ot their more patient. loving, pious, holy, forgiving brethren of the East Don't say We punish the innocent. It IS false. These acts are committed by rowing bands who have deEberated on tho crime in advance, and are all accessories before the fact, and even by law equally guilty We pur- sue the identical band and fight them, for they resist; some are killed; others taken prs~- onera. It is war pure and simple The h. dians are constantly numbering our people, and yet they find white persons willing to defend them, though at the expense of their own race, and who even have inc audacity to do it in the nams of Justice"

 These crimes are commit ted by the red man while he claims to be at peace. He pleads for treaties only that he may the more easily be supplied with weapons for our des- truction. Notwithstanding his great "faith" and "honesty," he makes the most solemn treaties with the deliberate purpose on the first safe opportunity, although he is under pledge ot peace; but these pledges are to them a mockery. Not single one of the wild savage chiefs who have from time to time visltedthis city to talk with the "Great Father" but would if in 8 safe place gladly plunge his knife in the said paternal heart, and eat the throat of every Senator who welcomed him 10 Washington. The only men they would spare if they understood the situation would be the 50 called "humaDitarians, their faithful allies who no q back the arm of the Government while the the slaughter of white men, women and children IS hereby enabled to go on. There IS neither faith nor honor Eor trust 10 be re- posed in the wild Indian when 1t comes 10 q ques ion Of safely imbruins his hand in lhe blood of white men. The hatred of cur race IS 80 wrought into his nature, by ancient wrongs, if you please, received on Jhis sie of the continent, from your or your fathers hands, noble Eastern men, that evea generations of enforced peace cannot eradicate 1t. Tdega is no such haired on the part ef white men to- ward the Indian. The white man simply wants peace, and there can be no peace Tn his case but conquered one, maintained by force. All Western man who have come ia contact with the Indian and know anything about him, agree on this question. The Eastern men Of day know nothing practically of the matter. Cant they take inc unanimous re- port of their own kith and kin, or those who vera raised boys together with them, and who never in their youth. shoUed more than or dinary signs Of innate depravity or general 5,ood.tbirstiness of nature, but wbo now say th hostile Indians should be "hurt"

 Eastern men make the mistake of supposr ing that the frontermen want the Indian wars kept mp. Never was there a greater mistake. Night and day they pray for peace There IS no moment at which the white men would not agree to forget and forgive the past with all its bloody record unagenged if peace could only be assured. They ask for troops, not to kill Indian but to prevent white men from being killed, They pray for power, not to inaugurate slaughter but that peace may 5a preserved Eastern men should give heed to our declarations They must either believe their friends CT claim that life in the West has the singular effect of making civilized white men vile and ierocioua, while it turns your natural savage into the most notie and gem tie of kuman beings. What nonsense to talk of our policy as being aggressive. Itis the duty of civilization to aggress of barbarsm, Suppose ve had not aggressed? Where would "Justice' be now? Ii he and his conlreres think aggression was wrong, why don t they prove their sincerity, set noble example, and give up their present homes to those whe on their theory, are the true heirs at law.

 FRONTIER