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Show I THE UTE REMOVAL. The papers are burdened each morning morn-ing with the pleadings of the southern Ute-3 of Colorado for expatriation, lg- nacio, one of their principal chiefs tis In Washington, at so much a' day, to tell the government how exceedingly anxious the members of hia tribe are to be sent away from tbeir homes-homes homes-homes for untold centuries, to Utah, to a strange land and one they have little ex et knowledge of. Verillv is this the day and land of humbug. Is it possible possi-ble that this thin tale of a few reckless land grabbers in Colorado, will go down and these poor people be tricked out of their homes and dumped down into in-to a strange and hostile land? Of course Iznacio is present in "Washington only to misrepresent his people. Not one in ten know the purpose for which he is present at the capital, or if they did, his life would not be worth an hours' purchase upon his return. We have watched this thing several years. Every session of congress this same agitation is experienced. Upon asking the Utea why they are so anxious anx-ious to be removed to Utah they man-. man-. Ife8t the utmost disdain and eay they would not trade iheir southern Colorado Colo-rado reservation for the whole of Utah. Thi b is natural. It is their home, was the home of their fathers and is the burial place of their fathers. It is by such means as these now being used in Washington, that the national government has been made to do vast . , injustice in the west. There are hundreds of such instances. Before this wrong is consummated upon both the Indians and this territory, let the government send an able, calm and uupuxuuasauie commission look. me matter over. In the first place such a commission would find that tbe treaty was procured by fraud, and that there are not twenty Indians among the southern south-ern Utes who know what they were doing when they were tricked into ratifying rat-ifying the so called treaty of removal. Let the commission travel from one end to the other of Utah and they will not find a single man, white or red, but who regards their proposed removal re-moval here as the monumental outrage out-rage of the age. j If the outrage ever is consummated it will be productive only of unrest and outrage. Blood will flow and in no mean rivulets either, ere these poor untutored un-tutored red men have been able to strike root or rooftree in the territory. Utah ought to Eend remonstrance remon-strance after remonstrance and din tbe opposition into the ears of congress until all purposes of this wretched raid ujou the lands of Utah have been abandoned. |