Show tt alie bcd bian j flavins briefly reviewed some of history the fact mastbe adma eted lat l at when the uen shores we were kind and confiding standing before like of marble before the tor ready td bo into boble mahhood mau hood ais wo were hacked pieces and destroyed r t itis useless to decy the charge hat at times wo havo been goaded to vindictive and arnel acts of my awn tribe however were soldiers iu tati northern army tho civil war some of them were taken andi beld prisoners in the rebel prisons and the cruelty which according to the jalcs they teil was witnessed there was never outdone in border warfare with the scalping knife and tomahawk and yet I 1 believe that had the northern people been placed in the couth under like circumstances cum stances their prisoners of war would have beau treated with similar cruelty tit was of a desperate effort to savo an expiring cause I 1 be licce there is reasonable person well grounded in united states history who will not admit that there were ten times as many who perished miserably in sout heru ons have been killed by oni people si uco the america I 1 recall these facts not to censure ce bat to show that and revenge aro tho offspring of war not of race nud that has placed no impassable gulf between lie and civilization while I 1 most heartily indorse the present policy of the government in dealing our people I 1 must admit to bo true to my own convictions that I 1 am worried over the ration system under which eo many of conr people are being fed on the reservations I 1 greatly fear it may eventually many of them beyond redemption it permits tho gathering of lazy immoral white men of the worst stamp who spend their time in idleness and in corrupting indian morality simon pokagon in forum |