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Show ', ' ' THE BED AMI 1THITK CK IZE. ( Wjiat is now called the '-In 1 dian crare" occupies a large pro J I 5 portion of the dNpatch columns o j I American news.apers. k I l , na-'ws tho clashing and con- 1 ' ' tradictory reporU on the subjett, i . , "'"SlitfuIrsonMiiladml l( , tim there i, a great deal of whit. I mn's"crazs"outhe6UbJecL Th. ; i eJsiMB are fu" of acuDU oi V i military couceitratlon and move- , menu preparatory to suppressing an 1 j anticipated uprising, yet the In- J osJiavcaoaccorditigtoanyo the reports. msJo a tingle hoatUe ! v I I demonstration. That Is ao most i t sinsubr phass of the whole busl h . Lit Tile is of the alarm teems to ill ; be wholly grounded upon certain orgiesorriUf, lodudltig dancing, in which the red men are Eaid to be indulging. Abo on the fact that manycf them believe in the intervention inter-vention in their behalf of a alesiab, who is to destroy the whites by same trem-ndojj convulsion of nature. It teems to us that if they have this belief, 33 has been ao often reprcseated, thej will be likely to wait for its realisation instead of going to work to destroy the vhitcs with Winchester rifles. It will bo vtry unfortunate it the Indians shall be goaled into "om-mlttlng "om-mlttlng some overt act by the hostile hos-tile movements now going on In relation re-lation to thtm. There are occasions ivhen we can agree with the 7Vioune, and on one-phase one-phase of this ml Jei t at lrat wo can consistently coincide with it. That journal lutimitt?, this morning, that the ttrrifiing rumors floated all over tho country about a probable Indian outbreak are set afoot and kej t alive by post traders and other traders on the frontiers. It is not the Cfettiuie that Indian wars have betu precipitated by the sordid lust fur bu'lne-s benefits peculiar to that class. Men get pretty low In the scale of humanity when they seek lo further the Interests of their trade at the sacrifice of hundreds or perhaps per-haps thousands of lives of their fellow fel-low creatures. "The same paper speaks correctly when It intimates that it would be the worst kind of maJness for the Indians to seek to enter upon the warpa'h at this season of the year, especially in the Dakota country, which is liable soon to be swept with the destructive blizzards common com-mon to that region, and to be tx-po-e 1 to which is as certain death as to be confronted by a rhalanx of soldiers in hostile amy, armed Willi the most improved weapons of modern warfare. If the Indians of this country desired to be wijied out of existence they could not, according accord-ing to all appearances, adopt a more thorough or speedy plan of producing produc-ing the work of extinction thau by committing any act that wculd form the basis of a reason to have the military forces of the United States hurled against them. We hope that they will not be induced by any demonstration demon-stration tonard them, to commit any actof reolt that would open an Indian war. which would be i great misfortune. Any white men, be they po t traders or any other c!as, fouud working toward the production produc-tion of such a sanguinary outcome of the present agitation ought to be summarily placed under effective restraint. |