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Show SATANTA ANT) W. AkhIo a rtijUcHt iHffuiwuiUVil 'ri,L0 HV-liinnlon lo tlio governor of TcxaH, a-.kirJK fur t ho rclo:iH'! of tho Kiowa imJian uliiufrt, HatanLa and JJitf Tree, Mill confined intlm Slulo MiiiiU'iiliary. Hffiretary llcUii.j, in ruewin lliin rc-ipiUHt, rc-ipiUHt, uvy.cn tlio rnlniiHu of lliestu Hav-bxl'h Hav-bxl'h a a matter of pulioy, to prevent outbreaks anions tlio Kiuwiinand ottujr iiibort iiidiil'ilint; tho Indian territory. It m ii?rliaji:i uot Keiierally kuowu that ii prand ooiiueil of thoso tribofi has beco held during tho prefcot luuuth at Okmulgee, in thut territory. A corrCHpourfcnt writing i'roin the above plnco to tho St. Louie Gilobo, mnkcH tliu htatcmcnt that authorized au-thorized omenta of tho United States government proniincd tlio KiowuH that both Hutimta and Mr Tree should be released, provided theso Indians restored re-stored to government aod citizens all stolen homes und mules, released all 'prisoners or captives iu their poBaess-ion, poBaess-ion, and moved on to their reservation reserva-tion thero to remain at pence. Tlio quoBtion of tlio rclouno of their ohiefs was expected tooouio before the ooun-oil, ooun-oil, tho Indiana claiming that tboy havo performed their pnrt of the agreement and urfiiog that government now also do aB it has promised. Secretary Sec-retary Delano does not refer to this agreement with tho Indians, but the (Jlobo correspondent inaists that such arrangement was made, and Hays that superintendent Hong has explained to the Indians that tho delay in releasing their chiefs is owing to tho press of othor business, and not by any intention inten-tion of bad faith; and that he also expresses ex-presses himsolf porfectly assured that the promiso will be faithfully executed. A largo number of delegates to the cjuhuil entertained fiorious tears that unless those chiefs wero released there would follow a gcnoral Btirrlng up of tho Kiowas and other-' uneasy tribes, followed by a (order war.1 Secretary Delano, De-lano, from lu'a sources of informa-tion informa-tion is h d to fear tho same condition of afl'.iirs Under all these circumstances it is scarcely possible (hat governor D.ivisv of Texas, will now refuso lo comply with the tccretary's request. If govorriinciit through i(M agents has iigicrri fo this i fleet with the Kiowas, by all means let it live up to tho agreement. agree-ment. At tho samo time, the policy of condemning to death, roprieving to life-ounrincmcnt, and finally setting wholly frc, two notoriously bloodthirsty blood-thirsty and treacherous savages, who arc worc. than even Captain Jack, in that their butcheries havo been, if possible, pos-sible, mi ro deliberate and oold-bloodcd, may very properly bo looked upone as most singular policy. So, too, it accius somewhat strango that government's govern-ment's should enter into an agree--moot which it has not tlio power of itself to Cut Gil, but must go begging to tlio governor of a State to relieve it from tho responsibility of haviug, through its agents, made a promise which it was unablo to keep. If thero bad been less of these rashly made promises, and fewer treaties not kept to tho letter, there would have been less of such murders and outrages as Satanta and liig Tree bavo admittedly admit-tedly committed. |