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Show A "WORD FOR THE INDIANS. ' They Have Huen Moro Sinned Atfuinwt Thru. .Sin- ' ( nini I noklontn Oivun. Ti'C.on, New Mfnco, Krhruarjr 6th, iMyS. To tht Fallon Of.tn 1 read In the pup nr hear llit rt murk ''there re nu gifd In!ian tut deadonvs," unci lo me ii tttm-tm unjust that 1 must raiiu mv vul e l-i ( pruleit. I do not fy there are not many bad one, but I do fay there are many jojd ones, tpeJaly In trit'M . wlich iava not been contaminated by ' ' the whites. Having bad a rerannal ex-perience ex-perience for fifty yen ra wit it Indiana of their bet of M-consin.the (treat Plains tht Bannocki, Stofthonea, U.f, Gov hues, San PiUhea, Pahvana, I'Jiceda. J'ahutta, I'imai, l'apai04, Nvaj Apacbea, Martcopaa and Yumas, I can peak tearlculy in their betuil. Tm-f they art Ignorant, ty, dirty, an I in timt ol war cruel at art ail uncivil! ;it race, but with all llin they have many good trails, and some which the whites ; would do well to copy. I relcr now lo Indiana in their native condition. Tney , art cbaste, adultery being punitlted wi n death, at was tht caw in the early Ml I lenient ol Cache Co.. Utah, when a squaw wbohad borne a chi d by a wbtte mountaineer was drowned In the Logan river by the members of her tribe. Among tfaetmelvea they are honest, thclt being almost unknown In eah j tribe, though to despoil those of another ) is considered meritorious as being a ) kind of warfare. If a family wish to ; leave their Utile hut lor days or weeks - they simply close the entrance an J leave a small slick againat it as notice that the family art all absent, and leave their household ellecls without tear that any . one will enter and steal anything. That -. ) little Slick leaning against the lent ciap ' la all ihe bar, bull, lot k and key needed to make everything afe. With ua, lickt and bolts are nut sufficient to keep burglars out of our dwellings a thi.l would ask nothing better than to know ol a houae whose inmates were absent. Their word is good. l have known an lmli-n to travel a hundred miles on , foot through a desert in order to return a pan he bad previously borrowed and promised to bnog back at a certain time to us. WouiU any white man do yiatf 1 think not. They are accused of never forgiving I an injury; but it so, they never forget a f kindness done them. They are huapit j aole, and will atiare their laat moral ol lood with a needy atranger who app ie ) . . to them tjr shelter. Il Itiry ait a ' , . ihievuh band, tiiey will not molest nor . ; Meal (rum b.m while in their camp; I when he Has departed a lew miles lie may then look out. Wmie thieves wou'd nut wall until their prey had gone fmm thtir sue iter, tut would rob or kill Hi hi win e lie slept beneath their roof. if fpjet permuted 1 could cue many micreUiig imi.lcnla to relation to trtee , '.hiugs. If tney art cruel to Ihetr ; enemies, art they mora ao than other j races Kernerubcr the hve-hour agonis ing torture by Art of a negro io 1 eaa ia yeart witueaaed with glee by thou aotla ol mn women ami children, civilised (if whites; also the recent burn-1 burn-1 ing alive to Tennessee of a man and a woman by a while mob. Toe Indian has many and grave faults, but tbey art tht result ol centuries ol ignorance and barbarism, and tlicy are ', not any worse today trun llit Turks and J other nations ol Asia and .rua They are charved with waging cruel wart against whites settling on ihelr lan but w know positively itiat In nearly every cate iboat wars were initiated by the whites; settler a, miners or prospectors Suib, waa tht cause ol Ihe Ute war of ifljj and tht war iu Sanpele county; also Iboae waged by Victor is and Cochise in Anion, duels who were ireudly with tht whiles until their wives and . daughters wert outraged by white pros , pectors wbilt their husbands and lathers ' wert absent. Exactly similar was the Cause of the Yatjui war In Sou or a, Mexi co. Would not any civilised nation lo . day declare war for a similar cause In tht settlement ol Utah, in a com- Kany of enngranta going to Calilornia y tht Fori-llail route was a man who swore be would ''kill a d-d Indian before ha got to California' and he did ao, in ' ' what is now the State of Nevada. Set ing an ludlan approach tht camp at aoon, bo abot him dead just to ahow bis manhood, 1 suppose. Next day Ihe Indians gathered 111 force, look tht man 1 and cruelly killed him, allowing the others to go forward unmolested. Then weut faun the cry "the Indians are murdering the while! kill them! kill them till' And in following years scoits of innocent people white and red were slain upon that lonely trail , victims ol one man's wickedness. 1 ; could adduce many similar examples II 1 space permuted. j While some allowance can be made ! for the Geutilt world because ol their ' traditions aud their ignorance ol Ihe origin of the Indian, we cminot excuse ', " Latter-day Saints who harbor such viu ' 1 dictive leeiitigs.knowing as they do that ' '' 1 those whom we call Indians arc U the huu t of Josepb vl the pure lutcaKe ol . Father Abranam, and lud hens to ihe 1 j biefisitigs sealed upon linn and his w I terity forever, and to whom it wn said "whomsoever bicsscs thee I will bless, and whomsoever curses thee 1 will curse.1' May the lime oon come w hen their puuisumcitt shall be over, and they ' . become pure, a while and deiigiiisume people, as ihey were alter the tiiinittra- j ' Hon of the batiur to them. Hie follow , Ing clipping Uom the Tucsu.i Ujily citizen tciis us uwu story ui.foitunateiy, juc ouly too Hue. . j i Santiauo. ; j MOI A )OKU, HUT A CklHk. ' ' , The Tombstone liopetlur rrprif j , duces liuni Hie Chicago KvCurd u s ory ' about the killing ol an luui ui priiunei by two solUHts, iiiauy years ago, hi Apaihe Tjj. l iic cipcvn ul tne urn tic is 'Juke oil Ail Apache Italian " A listort, the tu e is u lut'urt, the omy liUiu reiuied btiiig the kliun ol Un ) luuiau by ids guards, wiucu wus a Vtr :owiUi act. 1 ne Indian was not a rentgade prisoner bu, as the head ol the Api lit lliue, was Hie gUifcl ol tiie CliiuiaitUiii AUlkt. 1'iic killing 01 l uc Indian was a 1 iiiie, Hie lacts in icla urn to which ..k is fj.iowa: It was caily in Hie 60 Ahto Inclau tioubks uti the so tu wesi-rn Itouiur were suLsidji, 111 I Uieuthcir (Cul. J K West, u uur rec- jlleciioii stives ts aiihij. hi c.iiiu.auu it Apactie T jj, about niua ii.ile. suuiii 1 lbiiVcr Ci, aui wura iu AUu -us .: 1 Colorado (th brother in-law ol Cochise, Ihe head chtif uf all ihe Apaches, then at I'mos Alio, t come mwn to Hie pout, Hut i.f wa ited 10 mike a treaty wohim. M initu a s-nied and went to Ai rue l.j ttu-di g in the honesty ol tie mvliMiioii. . I he ireacnery of the Indian Is a well win them", hut ihe bast deopfon pr.c i:ni Uiun inem by the agt-ms "I ihf covetn iM n aie seldom mcuii ntd. Maigus Cd .rado. when he teactird A.'uiiie leiu, wa Hirwn Into the Kiiard house and a gil.ird s'atoted over l ini, wiih onlrrs to snoot ihe nld chiel if he mule anv move i i the niht. Mtigus lay down in his bUnket and Inl aklccp, when ihe guarl, more of a .nvige than his ptitiner, hra'ed his bay.inet iu the lire ari l thru I .nrotign a cmnk in the will ol the gmrJ houe, anil against M.tii(ii hip. I he Indian jumped to In tret With a cry of pain when the gu-ird deliberately shot him Afterwards tmy cut ift His head and threw it in o a ptlw vult 1 n.it inhuman act cost the lives ot hunuM '1 of while p'itp)e and millions of Kovrrnnu.il m ik v to suppress the injunction ol the ji.dians which fol loed, Itwasacmtly "joke," and a harm ful art, meriting the con dgn pun ishment of the peipetraturs. bdver Hell. |