Show r teu TEM FIRST BATTLE W the trot first in gitary a achievement c rille which tha administration 01 has ts toan hor how ow for its larbe targe ex end boisterous notes of prepa preparation rAtio zi has las not riot occurred occur red in utah or in the gult gulf pf af me mexico deg where 1 as demonstrations were imort but about milea miles horth north of snake rive river r ii 1 col steptoe for one winter the governor garnor of utah vas was the hero bero of it and tw twenty lity itty six of his big followers were its victims 4 the file rile fate of f these men was A sad one and the inore more eq from ahe fhe fact that it 4 seems fo to haye beep beey as al u unnecessary as ds it 4 was waa at s what they were doing up tip among t the ae spokane Indi indians atis does not appear in the report reports but that the they were regarded by the indians as enemies who came fame to drive them from their hunting grounds to wipe them out was the expression e sion they used is beyond dispute instead t e d of trying to eradicate this impression as an lib he should have ilone llone if not well fount founded led col steptoe tells his men that they must fight their way through we would really realty be glad to hear some good reason for borsuch such management why need those savages be disturbed why not let them their alone altogether or prepare them for tile the transit of troops through their country by friendly approaches we fear that the reason is one which will reflect little credit upon the in command or upon the administration there is a disposition to treat the indian on our frontiers with even less forbear ance than that tha the white while bears or the reptiles which share the wil wll wilderness fernen s wilh wilb them for we do not disturb these except when they are in our way these theae indians are not in it our way we do xio riot not need the lands they attempt attempted ad to defend le fend for settlement and if we did there are other agencies which should be employed be fore violence to get them but it seems to be the policy of the present administration to cultivate every difficulty of a foreign or domestic character to make it a pretext for spending money this expedition will be the pretext for asking a larger indian army the reports of the tile battle which have reached the atlantic coasty coasts coast all call for more broo troops to fight indians with there are thousands saz of people delighted by reports re orts of such battles for they set the treasury funds a flow jug jog orders were received in the city yesterday ay we under understand stand stano by the quartermaster of this department to ta make arrangements to send men immediately to reinforce col steptoe instead of taking troops on the ground or volunteers the government sends a small army three erfour or fohir thousand miles to fight these indians and for what end to drive ve them back blittle little further birther in ili the wilder wilderness i nes a and to spend A a great ded det dei of money here we may see the purse curse of A standing army in the united states the more we increase its numbers the more ve we mulli multiply ply the sources of disaffection among the tue bobier tribes the more we strengthen that hostile policy which keeps our frontiers frontiera in a state ot dis djs disorder orden order if we bad had no government soldier soldiery on the frontiers for the baat thirty years it and nd bad left the border states to ideal xeal with the indians as they pleased we have no doubt the security of life and arid proper ty among them would be tan tar greater than it is now ilow with an in army of some men occupied I 1 almost akings to a man mati infighting ini them A Y wre eve post july 22 |