| Show 1 INDIAN TROUBLES V 1 1 there thero seems to be he considerable excitement cit ement in these western regions at ut present presen V concerning indian outrages and depredations by the savage savages there is is no question but they are operating over a very e extensive tract of country judging by the reports but nothing has yet reached to prove that they are more numerous or committing greater outrages than they have done ansome in some previous summers sum bum mersy I 1 from waskie vaskie within two miles of which bishop john sharps train was attacked last friday evening fo to plum creek which was attacked on thursday is isa a ili ill distance stance of miles the former being 02 2 Q miles from this city and the latter gag miles 40 10 miles this side of fort distance marked being ming by the stage lin line e thi this proves that it I 1 is not a few roving indians passing to and fro along the road who are cammi committing eting the depredations for here are two points poin ts miles apart attacked almost at the same time with other intermediate points either attacked or threatened by parties of the savages still in some past seasons they have c committed as many barbarities in the same length of time and over as wide an extent of territory as they have done this season we do not refer in this manner to the present indian troubles east because we would underrate them or the danger of traveling but it is so common now to spread exaggerated rumors for interested purposes that it is as well the truth should be plainly told and aud corruptly understood der stood where it can be there is considerable outcry on thil thin this thib matter and not riot w without reason though much of it is far from being reasonable manifesting rather a wild unreasoning and thirst for blood that is more the characteristic of the savage red man than it should be of his white neighbor A great many of the difficulties I 1 that have existed and do now e exist with the indians are directly traceable to the whites indians and their squads squaws have been shot down in mere wantonness and their trad traditions irions teach leach them to retaliate on ort the first that comes within their power of a tribe or people leopie from whom any of them have received injury and wrong they have been deceived again and again b by men who have robbed the indians over whom they were appointed guardians and the government who appointed and paid them they see the hunting bunting grounds of their fathers wrested from them and the game ame which is their support driven away and they look upon it as wrongful spoliation not understanding the march of events but knowing that too often the white mans professions are as insincere as his actions are inhuman and dishonorable and for these and other causes they are at war with the whites in their heir terribly barba barbarous rous and butchering way killing and innocent men and women running oss off stock and destroying property on the other hand I 1 the growing interests of the ag age demand demaud that the travel from the east to the west of this grent great continent and through tle the heart of th mighty nation should not be stopper every ondein once an ff a sav savages ag ages agea es whether they be numbered by the th hundred undred h or thousand to follow the In indians flans off the main maln road roaland roa dand and over the thousands of square milea traversed by their rov ing bands would be an in impracticable undertaking A village here and there might be destroyed or a few hundred indians with their squads squaws squaws squads and children be killed but at what a cost in expend ed means while the depredations on cu the line of travel would be diminish un ed 1 it seems that at least one road might be kept open and the stations be preserved and this appears from the dispatches to be general fi hermans opinion asto As to liow how that can best be done almost every paper inthe in the country speaks like sin sir oracle on the question and propounds plans for the speedy obtaining of peace and safety of travel on the plains many of which appear most excellent on paper and most of them advocate extermination we have no intention of adding to the number the indian is cruel savage cunning and educated to look upon bloodshed as meritorious and praiseworthy but he has been ill used and his hi worst passions ons stirred into action by men who possessing su superior perlor knowledge should have taught him by example to reverence and respect Mem knowing knowling all these thoe things and aud knowing how apt savages aswell as well weli as some civilized are to take of fence at trivial matters at times because of their peculiar views of right and wrong people residing in or traveling through an indian country can never be too vigilant caul cautious lous ious and guarded in their theli movements the territories around us are involved in indian difficulties and they are strenuously in favor of the exterminating mina ting policy it is a cruel policy and a very expensive one the costliest cost liest way of managing the indians deans 5 in blood f and treasure is to exterminate them that has bas been proved by over two centuries of experience we have indian troubles to contend with yet they are caused by a comparatively small number of the tho savages in this territory if we were to adopt the policy advocated and urged by many of our surrounding neighbors ofner offer a scalp bounty of 20 each as the citizens of central colorado s have do done n e and an d seek to wipe out the indians innocent and guilty all the friendly savages in our territory would soon be numbered with black hawk and his outlaws and we would world have an indian I 1 war of dimensions sufficiently large to ma make ke the existence of many of our settlements tle ments an impossibility it will not do to give way to feelings of revenge and anid stooping to the level of the savage make w war r upon him according to his own bearous bb arous code the policy that has characterized our settlement of these valleys up to the present with the indians has enabled us to live in an indian country and have less difficulty with the aborigines than the history of the settlement of any other state or territory in the union can show except the settlement made by penn and his followers because tf bf the humane policy which we have adopted we have been at peace with the indians when others around us have been at war with them and we have been falsely charged with complicity in their outrages on whites in consequence and there are men tod today to d dat day i al here hero in ou our oun r midst and elsewhere reckless enough to charge us with complicity in every outrage committed b by indiana between this thi city and the missouri if we ware were nal actually in conflict with the savages ours ourselves elv were such cha eha charges ra es made I 1 they would be as fal fai as they have ever been bean but wisdom inculcates that chatas as a people eople we hold hoid to the policy which we have proved to be so good and act according cord ng to io the counsel of bur leaders wh who have k by the wisdom of god gog god turned side aside many mapy a threatening evil |
