Show 4 still another bloody protest another wail comes up tip from tho the wilderness another protest against the abo and criminal neglect rf government government another k plea pica and heartrending heart rending for something I 1 to bodino bo done 11 the capture of fort buford is confirmed abo might havo closed there and the most hopeful imagination tho widest il dest dream would not havo have deceived a n single mind for buford fort is in the bo indian country and has been threatened for a long time captured by tho the red miscreants sl 1 western men base long hince learned when will their Represent athes leam n what bat that means not merely death but bloody tris macre namo nameless lers cruelties cruel ties horrid butch eries erics gallant men who had bad faithful served their country in tho the long and fearful bt ruggle again gf lint it rebellion v aho vho ho had gladly braved a thou thousand amrid deaths at tho the cannons mouth were there here and the fort was captured lovely woman who forsaking tho the joys of home and civilized life had dared the dangers of the frontier to bo be with mith litt hubband and father amid trial rial and privation was there hero the fort wits was capt captured M innocent prattling children whose merry voices rang upon garrison green nud and waited the tarie tuneful ful echoes of the dark forest forert or rolling roiling plain m cro there and great the he fort was AM captured A little heroic bind band of eighty nil told old uniformed with tho the trappings trapping of it A great phoud all powerful poni erful nation with that clation nat ionn ti flag floating oer them thern vero ere there in the heart of the indian ildau territory menaced ced surrounded overwhelmed ky by thousands of red demons murder slaughter massacre mab sacre scalping butchery were there and the bloody mutilated corpses of tho the garrison men women nud and children cry aloud for vengeance how long oil oh how hoar long shall this cruel butchery this shameful unparalleled i kless waste of human life bo be permitted without avenon effort to stop atop or avenge it A few short months have bave pissed passed since tho the terrible massacre at fort phi kearny freighted the wires with its doleful news and while commissioners are arc investigating and par beying and finding out low illow liot hot to do it I 1 cornea comes to us on the wings of the lightning the story of fort buford the li rilling flug words speak to every human heart the crime of that thal slaughter daughter 16 lays Ts at tho the door of somebody and it at who corer it may be bc it were bettor better for him that ho be had not been born I 1 or that tbt rk millstone mil intone hanged about his neck we reprint the dispatch it should be carved fit m huge buge lines upon tho the dome of the nations capitol as a testimony a nations rulers who by their apathy and un unconcern concern thus sacrifice feic kac tho the brave tho noble boblo the innocent washington april 2 the capture caf ture of fort buford Bu fordis is confirmed colonel rankin his wife and children and the whole garrison numbering eighty were slaughtered colonel had bad represented foroud months his inability to io a pi w aftab by wiy force ol of Lid indians ians Ir rought against him private letters say sax he anticipated his fate bat defended lits his position to tho last ho he repulsed with mith his small force the attack of two or three thousand indians killing three hundred and w n bounding a largo I 1 number ber it is supposed that ho he shot his wife to prevent her fer falling into the hands of the I 1 savaged A goi government emment which halabut just disbanded R million of men and can call defy tho be world in arms irm thua abandons and remorselessly leaves r to a cruel fato fate its soldiers their wives wires and little anch howmann more such records aro are yet to be riton heaven only knows the arg acra and have been for months on oil the I 1 var tar path threatening slaying massac IN when hen their audacity increased by the supine icess of the government has reached the point that they thet dare attack a fortified post defended by trained soldiers what may wo we not expect when the long tr trains aills of de fenceless emigrants set out on oil their journey across the A when partisanship and politics so I 1 I 1 the mind that on oil the floors floora 0 of r con grem gag defenders art are heard of tho the policy of belling 4 firms arms rua and ammunition to tho the savages bammay ba ht may we not look for Is it il corruption ar ir imbecility that rules the hour I 1 if this last fast horrid mast massacre acre shall not awake the to 6 immediate and stern stem action the people of the territories anay well despair i in common with a largo majority d df T western i wo we have hane from tune time to timo time lifted up our in protest against that policy which vainly becks i to coax coal tho Indian to peace it isi iha cruel criel policy cruel to io tho the whites cruel to io the indians it can but result in tho the masao of our own people and the leading of the hava avab Q 0 to c eventual defit ruction I 1 1 tho the groat fundamental error of our government so KC havo have long been convinced has been f in ea ever treating at all itu ith tho the indians and it t rig them as SO separate quasi ove reign 1 lios jt it has been prolific of leitold d evils and is ir now producing its legitimate fruits of blood it rapine and dou outrage tho the great west must 11 demand a ch change 90 and demand it 11 in tones 1 I which will nill bo be heard if government cannot or will not protect alg cl t tuo taio i rim rieb let it bo be known a and nd it tho the un unequal equal contest now being waged be given up tho the bones 1 of slaughtered strewn atom the missouri to the sacramento bur forts aro are lad in fil ashes find and their defenders scalped scalded ped t the he I 1 I 1 I 1 highways of commerce are threatened and obstructed tear after year and yet a s sickly I 1 ay iy pleads for treaties find and sends ads out blan blankets kots and trinkets and powder hud lead jena and tomah tomahawks awls an and a scalping knives bild begs tho the red barbarians ba rb arians for or I 1 the OIB privilege lego af bracking but oking the pipe of peace out upon buch bach botch work forts ahir rear J 11 py and bufort I 1 cry cry r dond aloud against it The ganto I 1 t L 1 I V tha th brochi flit afta fornof tho t I 1 FT massacre C 1 0 at buford another bisp caloo caino I 1 I 1 across t the b e wires st louis lonk april n 2 the buc denlow ats n junction city kausas lor i or says bays general hancocks Hancoc ls indian expedition 1 1 r strong was nt at salina on oil satur saturdays dayi all acock proposes to go to fort larned lamed on oil the santa sant a fe fc rood road achere anvil of f hostile jio sUlt tribes to a cau council 9 far lanns of peace if they aidt 0 agree ho bobill twill or on a rigorous war v ar against again st 11 we aro bisp act uial thai ift denoral hn ck were not bound I 1 1 lod tope tape A ho 0 wor donld id abder af girtho civo tho rea devils a good drubbing and then dictate his bis forms of peace if Congress congressmen VM mill stop slop reading coopers novels novel drop politics for a brief season and do a little ic constructing out ur th b 6 territories they deserve better of their country the redman red man reconstructing and it cant be bonc with peace commissions commission blankets and tobacco powder lead and sharp steel are arc required to mec this clis case we heartily indorse and recommend tho the suggestion of the D denver inver alews yews that thai a convention Venti oll from a all 11 t the 1 10 T territories arlt I 1 ri r ai bladd a at t great salt lake bociey city early this cummer u me r to 0 o take into consideration tho the alarming alarin M of indian affairs au aira and express tho uti unanimous Benti sentiments ments of tho the people on thil thi vital ital question |