| Show the black hawk journal we clip the following from a late number of the denver news it is to be regretted that our tile the blaa hawk joad oinah oi nu naf cannot now no W tile the election is over f have bave the fairness to treat subjects calmly and eaDd candidly idly without flinging dirt at ti those lose who deserve praise rather than censure in tuesday evenings evening edition of that paper we find a leading in editorial article under the c caption of 11 escort system for the overland coaches which does gross mi injustice ustice to governor evans col chivington and others the subject treated of is good enough a and nd so are the sug suggestions suggests gesti 1 I ons if the wr writer iter could have sufficiently suppressed his spleen to treat the question in a gentlemanly spirit its effect would ct certainly rt airily have been better without the undeserved personal abuse it contains F for or instance the editor says ift seems strange that with the terrible lesson ot of last summer before them nothing should have been done by the ter authorities or indeed by anybody toward securing the overland R route 0 ute from indian attack A simple escort fort system tor the coaches through the infested section frona from marysville marksville Marys ville to 0 fallon s bluffs would answer eci stead instead of via v ia san it would also sive people froin 1 rom being wounded bounded and killed in the couches coaches and would give general security Becu rity to ranch men inen and freighters we would pro propose poe something like the following not with any idea however ot of seeing it adopted because it id simple sensible and ellec tive and because the powers that be having made up their minds that territories ri cannot protect themselves nor attain protection hom congress se hoem 0 m determined to prove it to themselves and the world whether or not the writer of the above paragraph doubt doubtless leti s knows as well us as any one that the inferences he draws hi the above are both untrue and unjust in several points in ili the first place itis it is well known that governor E evans vans at whom all these scurrilous attacks upon tl 11 territorial authorities ire are leveled has done all that a man in his position could possibly do to secure protection to the overland mail route if it is do doubted 1 let alic tem 11 refer to I 1 or gainsa gainsay liis his correspondence pon dence upon the subject pub dished by us some weeks since not one of tile the governors de amers has dared to open his head in reply 1 ply to those letters even now his Excell excellency eucy is on oil his way to to washington expressly and especially ally tp secure protection for this route and the editor or of the journal well knows that such is the f fitt I 1 lt again he knows that the territorial rit orial 1 authorities have neither r the power nor the authority to go beyond our territorial boundaries to establish a system of projection for this route the commander of this district its is equally pow arleas as its boundaries are coextensive only with those of all the Territory i to charge that the route as ewt well protected down to the territorial and district line would hayo beet been so ao palpably fool ish that a e oleu the reckless tir journal man did not venture to do so instead ho charges di reliction of I 1 duty upon the territorial authorities for failing to protect the line from fl oni marksville marysville Marys ville to opal ofil lons ions bluff 11 we aaita make one more extract which is so obviously and butr outrageously a false in its and inferences that a reply to thim seems unnecessary our 0 r readers know the f facts 1 acts and will ampre appreciate al ar the falsity of these statements stat cements we had bad hoped though very feebly that with the splendid day d ay regiments the indian evil on the plains aou would id have been plucked up tip by tho the roots but even as a determination to 6 literally destroy this territory if they could not make it a state seemed to characterize the action of the territorial authorities uth before the election so now they seemed to view their work with the greatest complacency confining their efforts to rendering the zeal of th the a people to their own defense utterly abortive tho the ad regiment has been bee 11 kept in ii a camp and its lima ti ma is nearly up recently it has been started to fort lyon a march which must be one of great efficacy since the colorado troops havo been beem devoted to makin milking gand and remaking it ever since they returned from froin mexico Al exico again we had hoped hope that the visit of gen connor would have given us its tu the benefit bent fit though only for three weeks of a soldier instead of politicians in settling our indian difficulties but it seems not we are still to be coerced with col Chivingt ons big hand that no one on may peep without his ss rp ra tet burwa from the plain indians indian S this winter and severed evered i fatal to colorado as the tree ta tile the unwary try traveler is to become beeding 0 chronic therefore ther we call attention loil tv to a simple escort system for the overland coaches coached hoping 0 that it may do somo borao 1 good I in in i some way if only in in preventing the pasq possible ible return of his excellency gov john evans to the fhe territory stirring up some one to call cali for an investigation in the conduct of colorado at af faira C bairs or rousing roli tile the people peo plia to a ortho e intolerable imposition the present regime has become and of its rich promise for the future of our territory I 1 |
