Show EX if bogy ts terrible lambla massacre of 0 gamon of fort Br buford braford iford ou on the yellow stone and so abo acene B atno of the lato late fort kearny bu butchery cannot fail to lo awaken iery general intermit in the subject of our indian relations there is hs rk class of sickly sentimentalists tit nt the iho east who are arc prone from lack of knowl saige of tho indian character to inest the red with a romantic nobility very far from the truth there is still another class clam logs less pardonable wh who 0 for c selfish elfish interests pander to the former and insist that all the indian wars arc gotten up by speculating whites and that such little episodes as abor e of forts forta phil keamy and buford are but natural and pardonable ie of cf tho the red tad man against the oppression ond and ini justies of flao he according to their our soldiers and arc ac always in the wrong lb the 0 t in invariably in the right prominent ni these apologists for indian atrocities md ind brutalities bm hao 0 always stood the indian bureau u and ita at least over sinco since that bureau has been connected with tho the in for T nearly twenty years it him ban waged ft a continual war against the troops nud their commanders and hampered every cvar attempt to pull punish ish the savage too foe for nearly wenty twenty years it has adhered hobt to the blanket system of diplomacy and for nearly twenty years the indians indian s lime have run riot oer tho the land and the scalping inife been icing in each rum summers mers sun in february last lait congress undertook to investigate the rort fort phil seamy kearny massucio mas sucro nud and called upon the secretaries of war and interior for information the former tra transmitted ns promptly the leports of military commanders including dispatches from the scene of af the alio butchery butch cry with the sut sill stance of which lh the country is now nor tolerably familiar among the be reports oeral showing that indian and ami traders were in the habit of selling MUS and ammunition without stint to hostile tribes with the direct of bogy the of the indian bureau the latter haq hai also sent in fir his report as we learn from the denver A JIM atai so far from froin denying the charge made colonel bogy proceeds to justify 1 himself iu ill tile course pursued from tho the extra extract ctr and synopsis of our denver wo c lean that bobys apparent aim iti is to excuse tile the Ilidia indians ns palliate their barbarities extol their peaceful dispositions and condemn the whites whether soldier cr citizen it is indeed a remarkable e document i con aud ud in tile the light of rk recent cert aud and I 1 passing SU 9 events should consign bogy if not to universal condemnation and obloquy at least to merited oblivion in private life I 1 the order or OF the military authorities to prevent his bis agenar and traders aam selling arms and to the savages excited hii hia war warmest met indignation ho he characterizes 1 izes tho the order of general coolie to that effect as not only unwise but really cruel anabo anaho and ho thus reason his ease case arc men and when hungry will like us resort to any means to obtain food and ati aa the chase is their only means of subsistence si stence if you deprive them of the power of procuring it you certainly produce great dissatisfaction if it v were ere true that arms and ammunition could lie bo accumulated accumulate dby by them to war against us it certainly would bo be unwise to give it to them but this is not the fact no indian will buy two guns one ho he absolutely needs and as ho he has no means maans of taking ciro caro of powder he necess necessarily airily will take when offered to h hm him m but a very limited quantity it is ia true that fon form neily oily they hunted with nith hoah and arrows ir roNs killing buffalo antelope and deer with the same but to hunt with bows and arrows s requires horses homes and as the valleys of that country are now moro more or loss less filled by white men prospecting for gold and silver their moans means for subsisting their horses have bave passed away and they now have bane but few horses hoi acs I 1 mention those these facts so as to place before the country as briefly as possible the condition as well vell as the wants of the indians I 1 no indian will buy more than one gun indeed how many mally guns apiece does docs the unsophisticated and ingenuous bogy think tho the warriors ors require to wage effective warfare wo certainly have no recollection of r arthy ay of conr resin regiments cuts in the lato late var ar going into action with moro more than ono one gun to each man but bogy bloms to think that to be at nil dangerous I 1 the red akins should have half a dozen slung dung across their bicks back tile the flimsy excuse that the whites 1 have to curtailed the pasturage of the indian ponies is simply ridiculous As the mews truly remarks all the horses and cattle in the united stales might t bo be pastured in tho valleys of tho the upper missouri year in and year out and the grass they would con 1 l bome would hardly bo be missed moreover it is 1 well known that the indians of the plains are now and always hate been well mounted and pow possessed mod of vast bands of hardy ponies pomes I 1 which will subsist where almost any other othe animal al would starve all this talk of furnish ing in g the indians with guns gans aud and ammunition to enable them to kill game for subsistence is i not merely a delusion but a bald naked pre post poste crous rons trick and n snare the commissioner insists that the indians indian went to lo fort phil mcailly on A peaceful mis mi I 1 sion aion to buy guns and ammunition and ques I 1 I 1 lions the veracity of all tile the military official who have mado made statements concerning the th t mp ro which took place placa notwithstanding I 1 the mild anil and angelic dib deposition position or of the nob r red d men but wo we must content with reproducing another extract from th f luminous report commenting on the tha I 1 of generals hancock and cooka lip approve I 1 and enforced by generals giant and sherman he sa k the mili military tarT ifould be made to atan that thoy they are arc iu that countr country X merely as afi ta po rn laito laix ito ft 14 the neat in m the di of u I 1 I 1 i i I 1 I 1 i I 1 wnm duties and not to on control atrol him T tho I 1 law rc regulates 1 u blates tho the trado trade with ith indians und and no military commander r should bo allowed to interfere I 1 nm am sati thed that the recent troubles at forts forta laramie and phil abil Y keaney earny grew out of haju docious loc military interference I 1 nm am informed that goil general ral cooke commandant nt at Oni alla nn a order prohibiting the traders to w tor abo indians arms and ammunition a sucu prohibitions I 1 believe to be unwise as thain tha in diara dian has to depend upon tho the chase for ahl and d witt of his wife vile and children arms and nia ammunition arc of absolute neca sity eity ho he will therefore if possible 11 and anauo lio matter nt at procuro procure jhc thc crr again it is perfectly i dle to say eay that li ho will accumulate them to malto maho war on the whites no 0 o indian will bu buy y two guns ono one ho he vill and ought to ba hac bac c nor will nill ho he lay upney up any laige lai go quantity of powder w as he h has mearis means of I 1 eling atho it one gun liello powder all and this istria bi alig means of sab after this wo we may tho the country that colonel bogy has been removed from tho indian bureau and his bl a place supplied kvan byan j i other comm commissioner missioner iss ioner who no trust nill wilida discover and acknowledge ledge that blood is than water and that white men are entitled to somo some consideration as wolf well as the abc A red men of tho forest and the plains pink S 1 I |