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Show sirnvTiox op the isdiajt Tjib clrcumtances connected with the tragic end of Sitting Bull will awaken a sad 1nf-Mt, and perhaps per-haps ome icdjgnatioD, in the minds of ail humane people who become be-come familiar with them. In considering con-sidering thesuUccl, the naked facts of tho affair should be scanned, livery Christian should take into account the cause cf the initial attack at-tack upon the old cnief. So far as can be learned It was simply lb: The noted red iun believed impliedly im-pliedly that thitt sanie ChrK who was cn-clficil at Jerusalem nearly nineteen hundred j ears ago was about to become the delivmrof the Indians and res" ore them Yo the ownership of the l&ntTs In this coun- trv. III tf-Jpt ntr.tlnmf.nf nt tht nl. Joci iln siaie Chrit was, at no distant day, to destroy the w hite people. Associated with this belief there existed a 'peeics of peculiar ceremony, in which dancing was the chief feiture. Wliile engaged in this rile some ofthe iartlcipauts woaU fall Into trances, on rocover-in rocover-in from which they Uould tell of having seen the MesIali and numbers num-bers or their friends who had Leeli dead for a long time. Connected with tho Messianic belief, it Is also held, by thoe w ho ccct'ft II, that the dead Inuians are icon to be raifcd to life and, with thc&in the Mesh, enjoy pea aud pli uty on the laudK natored to them. AH this seems to be notblns more than the crude ideas of a savage rop'e of the Christian Messiah, thu doctrine of the re-urrectioti from the dead, and the millennial reigu spoken of by all the prophets. It has uowhi.ro appeared that the inJIansnere tuuudtrbike the personal per-sonal labtr of establishing tLem-selves tLem-selves in possession of tbo lands. Theuev, belief inculcates, the Idea that the Mea-iah was to attend to all that bu-Iuesj hlm-elf. It looks very muLh us if a good many h!C people had an idea thi I'm re was something in what it pnpularlj oallH lh3 "Messiah craze." Ilbe hy should there be so much anxiety to crush It Thejue-tion ofthe i.oucsty of the Indians in entertaining the Messianic Mes-sianic belief is oue worthy of consideration. con-sideration. Sittin,; Hull gave evi dence of the genuine character of ins confidence in it. This eva indicated by hU proposition propo-sition to Agent McLiUjiilin who vielted the ehief at Ins caaii. and stiyed there over night witnout any IJeiof mjlestation of his jht-kiu jht-kiu existing. Sitting Hull madea 1 ropo-itiou, which is, in the uis-patehes, uis-patehes, beingscouted as a wild and wil sel-n,c ju a nusjjen jt waj this: That the agent anl the old ehief should make a tour of the tribes from ouj to another, and Investigate In-vestigate tbo Mes lab doctrine, until they reached tho-u with wiiom it originated. If the litter failed to produce Hie tangible proofs of the corrector f t,eir statements, then sitting Hull would thro- up his Mersud cease the dances. This proposal was as straight a3 anything any-thing could be. It was founded found-ed u rea-oii, indicating that the man who nude it w, open ut coaviciiou on the lu'ls of evidence. evi-dence. If there had been a genuine genu-ine de-ire to settle tile ideation lea.-eab,,j on the part of thoso to hom it w.u made, we see uo reason rea-son why the course pointed out bj itshould mt have been pursued. Instead of taking this sensible melnod, and thus bringing the logic of facts to bear uiwn the chief, It wa, evidently decided to take a more direct and o decidedly barbarous bar-barous mode of di-iv-lng or sitting Bull. A pou: of Inllan lice, di-iatched to his camp for the purpw, pounced upon aud arrest.! 1dm. If this action was not liken in order to precipitate a a eonllict and cou-ummate a tragedy in which sitting Ball Kbuuld be one of tbo victim., vic-tim., it Is difficult to inngine a tmtlut operandi that woald have more i JTectually attained that object. Of crojrs s the cavalry were close bv, so that when the itohco w ere getting the worst of the flgnt iuvolved in the attempted rescue led by the sou of the chief a child of twelve i eiis of age they coul J sten iu and do up the job by putting !n"the tin-!-hing touches of the tragedy. It appears tint, through the medium me-dium of tho tclegripli, thelndi.u belonging to .Sitting Bull's rln j are guilty ol auother grave otleu-e they have abandoned their fam-ilies fam-ilies and are noA- heading f..r I' the Bail Lands." Thi, in the light of a statement which follows, fol-lows, to the c fleet tint "the soldiers are In hot pursuit," reads 1 like a grim and sen-e!esJoke. The j situation mikes the fact appear that j the poor savages were ejcajlng to i sie their lives. It seemed to I a j liiolceasto whether, they Miould j abandon tatdr families and go to the I bad land", r reiuiii and abandou I j tneir latnHIes by being summinly j sent to ths s,.int world. By going to I the bad HnJsthey Iiad.atanyrate, a I h9 of preventing fora 'hurt season j at least their wives from being made widows and their children fataer!c-i. There is great danger that the KCTiguiniry incident referred to will leal to a bloody war. Those who arelleeing for their lives are! dubt!:MS driven to desperation. Tney ruiy resalve to sell their lives as dearly as p-huib!e, and tbu, by one step succeeding auother, many scenta of blood-hed nny I enacted. |