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Show -" ' " " " I INDIAN MATTERS 0M AH & NOTES. (i:iiroi m. eonu.sro:i-i;M'"0 Omaha., March lV, 1871. Not an Indian was to bo seen from Ogden to Omaha, and our foreign traveling companions who looked for the "noble-bearing savage" of Nelson's Nel-son's p i clonal is t, looked in vain, and will probably regret tho remainder of their checkered existence that they did not nnike the trip overland in Summer, so that their eyes might have feasted on those ttately forma ! Even the begging Pawnctswcre absent; ab-sent; while, if any of the hostile tribes were near tho railroad track, they kept tit em.-elves nnd war paintout of sight. So far as I can gather, Wyoming Wy-oming stock-raisers and ranchmen have no desno lor an Indian war, by 1 which they would suffer beriously, while army contractors would make a fat thing of it. But Cheyenne is on the war-path. .It lnus dug up the hatchet, never very deeply buried there, and is anxious for an indefinite number of hoops, with Ihe headquarters head-quarters of the department of tho plains. It would be life to that moribund mori-bund plaeo, and might give- it a semblance sem-blance of business; as it is, a more dead-and-alive collection of habitations habita-tions and yawning inhabitants it would be difficult to find anywhero else on tho continent. The Indian doubtless feels much as did Rodcric Dim, though he may not be able to express it so poetically as Scott made Clan Alpine's chieftajn do, when he exclaimed : The Rncl of mount and rivoi hoir, thai 1 ivith strong hand roiooui his share. i Starving, because of undelivered though promised annuities, and be cause ot being robbed by Indian agents, lie stole some cattle; maddened, mad-dened, because white men had killed some of his race, he retaliated hy killing white men. How true this is of most of our Indian difficulties. It was the well-known Indian-fighter, General Harney, who said recently before a Congressional Committee, that he never ku.ew of but two instances in-stances in which tho Indians first broke treaties, and then tho chiefs with whom they had been made had died before steps were taken to en-I en-I force them. And bow much of the 1 red man's nature there is in the ! white man, when it comes to be a matter of revenge ior injuries in flicted by the aboriginal raced When a white man" injures n white man and the latt?r seeks vengeance, it' U not against any or all of the kindred kind-red of the one who did liim wrong, but against the individual who committed com-mitted it. When a red man wrongs a red. man the latter seeks revenge upon any of the tribe of his enemy. And when the red man wrongs the white man, the latter seeks revenge upon any or all who wears the dark-hued dark-hued skin of the native. This is the : rule; there are of course exceptions; but this rule proves that the white man j has adopted, in his warfare , with the aboriginal race, the latter 'a murderous policy of tribal revenge. The red race has become, practically, practical-ly, a tribe to the white man, as the white race is viewed as a tribe by the red man; and so, with our boasted civilization, our Christian institutions and principles, and our ostentatious humanitarianism, we have actually been learning in the Indian school of rovenge, until we have reached a degree de-gree of murderous inhumanity as low as that of the race wo despise, and hatofor its ignorant and blood thirsti- Talkiug of Indian matter, what an uotonishing chronicler of wonderful things concem-eeniing concem-eeniing the aborigines is Indian AgenL ingalls, who lately testified in Washington to his doings among them in Southeastern Nevada and Southern Utah ! Ueforo all hia statements state-ments aro taken for gospel, it might not be amjiia' for the authorities at Washington to aak confirmation from General Morrow, BUpcrintendcnt of Indian afl'iirs fur Utah, who should be in possession of sonio facta bearing bear-ing upon the subject. Just now Omjiha U enjoying nice Spring weather and tho iucipiency of ! an election struggle which will terminate ter-minate on the 7th proximo. Good 'judges of. politics . here t'uiok the Democrat will win this time if they nominate the right man. Our friend, Dr. Miller, of the Omaha Jlcrald is, as usual, at his post, hitting hard blows against political fot-H, fanaticism and ult-raism. ult-raism. ! There is a newspaper (struggle in progress between tho t'nion and Jkrt the two evening papers, as lo which .-Jnall go undor.and both have swollen out lo bursting proportions. Omaha cannot support two morning and two evening papers any more than Halt Lake can. The temperance crusade is at work here, but as 1 have not timo lo remain re-main and sec how it operates the HEiiAi.nmtist do without noted on the subject until they are obtained farther farth-er east. II. L. S, |