| Show A PLEA FOR JVE vve VE p publish publish this evening a letter froma from a reliable correspondent on the real causes of ther ute outbreak the facia which he relates are interesting te in view of the present attempt to annihilate or banish from their thein lands a tribe of indians for loz whom scarcely a word is favorably uttered by pulpit press or people it is very evident to an unprejudiced u mind at all acquainted with the facts thadda tha scheme has been on foot for some time to drive the utes from their bunting grounds to make way white men who lust for the lands which justly and lawfully by treaty obligations belong toche to the red men who have been gradually hemmed hommed in ol 01 all sides before the advance of civilization liza tion 11 the thornburgh disaster was the natural result of the policy that has been pursued by the whites and the result would have been similar if the position of the indians and soldiers had been ie reversed versed only the killing of the indians would have been bulletined bulle bulie tined ined aa as a victory while the tho defeat of the troops is denounced as 03 a massacre the great greal grea barrier to a fair defence of the utes is the alleged outrages on the tho meeker ladies ladles which have bave I 1 lately been openly charged against a number of that tribe no one can think of these ati without the deepest feelings s of indignation that move the human heart nothing short of the jives of the monsters who perpetrated perpetrate a these in will satisfy the cry for vengeance and the demands of jug jut justice tice but we WO cannot consistently join in the popular clamor which we regret to say eay is swelled by the voice of some respectable portions por tlona tiona of tha tho press for tor the destruction ora or of a tribe because of the nets of a few of their number it ig 13 admitted that the indians indiana wh eni eri arouse aroused cl by the oppressions oppress ions of the whites to go upon the tha war path are often guilty of the viles deeds possible p ble bie to men inspired by fiends buado but do the superior race set them any bet tr t r example are there not numerous instances on record of cruel bruel ties perpetrated upon the indians male ald and female by white whit a devils in human form as horrible and damnable as anything committed by the red skink we notice that when the meeken meeker ladles were first rescued from their the announcement was made that they had bad been boon treated with respect and many eulogies were passed upon the conduct of the indians who had held heid them in their power this worst accusation is a late develop development merri metri and and it itis is only a report true it luis itis is stated that this dreadful chairge wa waa known to the at tap firby but it ia 4 certainly strange ic if that is the fact tact that the commission should praise the indians for their courtes leato the tha captives wedo weda we do not accept the charge chargo of the outrage of the meeker ladies as proven and we do not endorse the cry for the destruction of the wanja tribe ex ei en if this accusation la Is substantiated we demand for the accused indians the same treatment ment as would be accorded to white prisoners charged with the same crime let olem them be fairly tried and heard beard in their awn defence if it is s shown hhorn satisfactorily that they committed this crimp which is worse than murder let thurm thorn be hung up by the tho neck aa as a warning to all other villains whito white and a nid rid red who outrage fenceless defenceless de women but do not slaughter those who are not guilty of a capi tal tai off once abat would be of a christian editor who would advise the indi indiscriminate minute massacre massac or banishment ofa of a colony of white people because a dozen of ther their number had committed murder and rape two villains froma fromi from northern mining camp recently outraged a equaw in such buch uan a marinet that she was waw left for dead in the snow with her papoose pa i will any aby person or paper howl how 1 for the destruction st cfall of nil all the inhabitants of the camp to which those beastly vagabonds be belonged loDged we think not but it seems seema a difficult than thing g to impress the western mind with any idea of justice when red hed men instead of white men are accused of erime crime the fact is the whites lust just for the land of the reds they have robbed plundered driven abused lied abou about tand and crowded the re remnants m of theland the land until the homeless outcasts are obliged eitner to lie down dovin and die or or turn like a stag btag at bay and night fight with the weapons at command fhe the dogs that are flying at their throats it Is claimed that the inferior race laco must succumb that the christians need the domain of the savages that the fee plains are wanted for agriculture and and the mountains for the minerals hidden within their recessed recesses and that therefore the utes and aud other tribes must most jo go but where bhail shall they go to what spot can they find where civilized rapacity wilt will hot not follow them with rine line revolver and cannon to blow therl them into kinga kingdom andia and if the needs of tho the march of civilized humanity hu ma anity demand the lands of a decaying race is there not some just and humane method of obtaining possession or control co nirol without resorting to the most damnable atrocities in the name of caucasian advancement as an excuse for pillage and a warfare that is next of kin to wholesale murder we have havn no syllable of excuse for the diabolism of the uteze we ask no mercy for the wretches who committed the crimes on the Mee uee meeker kerb kere we only claim clairn that com conr mon mori justice for the reda be demanded for white men weil and punishment for the individuals proven guilty instead of th theiodis e I 1 adl criminate i slaughter of a tribe to which they belong and which of all the facts in its casu easy ward wera brought to light would bv by proven to tobe be more coay sinned than 1 |
