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Show General Sherman and General Harney have delivered lite; twelves on Indian matters. What tho former knows he has learned mostly by hearsay; hear-say; what the latter knows lie has learned by hard knocks and actual ; Indian fighting. General Sherman' is an able oflicer and a superior ma:i, . but his knowledge cf Indians is comparatively com-paratively theoretical. lie hlamts the "Quaker Policy" for much of the j later Indian troubles. General Harney Har-ney won the reputation of being the ' hardest and most determined Indian l fighter ttiat ever operated west ol tbo , 'Missouri river, General Crook not ex- j . ccpted; and he is charged with saving i at the Ash Hollow massacre, when, ordering tl.j killing of sfju:iv;s aiid 1 papooses, "nits moke lice." Yet he! declares the Indiana have invariahly observed tho treaties made with them, I except in two casus where thcchiqls' that signed die trea'.icj were dead be- . foro an atkanpt was made to enforce i tliem; and in bis plain, blunt, determined deter-mined way favors hanging Indian ' traders and whisky dealers that stir up trouble. The L'ungrc-.-donal Cvin- j Biittoe, before whom tho-e Generals; testified, cannot fail to bo impressed 1 with the opinions of Ihe o! 1 vL'lcr:-!i. |