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Show The Idauo Indian troubles furnish! a timely argument in favor of General Butler's proposition to establish citizen citi-zen Bnldiery on the frontier For what it cv'3 to maintain a standing army at the forts the nation, it is alleged, could establish farmers who Bhould owe service to the government, and be drilled to mass and help them-elvea in case of necessity without calling on the troops for aasisUuce. The idea is for government to give actus! aetilera, owing military service, farms, farm utensils and moans of subsistence for I , a limited time, and provide them I with arms aud ammunition; the aettlera, while engaged in agriculture, to be under military organizition, ami . be liable at nil times to service in case of Indigo war?, but in times of peace they would be furmers and producers, not 6imply paid consumers. con-sumers. If the scheme could be inaugurated in-augurated without fraud and corruption corrup-tion entering largely into the arrange meat, much good would result from it. The present expensive, and often t'jolish methods of fighting Indians would be abandoned, and a mode of warfare adopted far more eflective in every respect. |