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]_____ [ANTHROPY.It is h little strange how much false philanthropy nnd namby-pamby, mawkish aentimen-tulity there is afloat in the world. Before the late “unpleoaautneaa” much of this was expended on the horrors and evils of African slavery in the Southern States, while in the manufacturing districts of New England a white serfdom and system of grinding the faces of the poor was in existence under the very noses of the blatant Parkers, Beechers, Phillips, Garrisons, Sumners and others. Now the question of African slavery in America is forever put at rest, these mock philanthropists are eagerly scanning the horizon of passing events for some new “excitement, to expend upon, nnd to manufacture from, false and distant nnd cheap mock heroic philanthropy. Recently a band of Piegan Indians upon the Marias river in a neighboring Territory, after perpetrating untold barbarities and atrocities upou the whites, were brought to Justice by the avenging hand of Phil Sheridan, nnd punished by a signal retribution. Such an occurrence in meting out to these red devils in human shape the same punishment they had in-flicted upou others is taken up and made the staple of a new sensation mock philanthropy effort. It is compared to the massacre of Glencoe, uud to every butchery of innocent aud unoffending people since the days of the deluge. Sheridan, for doing his duty fearlessly aud well, is stigmatized and villified in unmeasured terms. The noble red man. is elevated by these maw kish sentimentalists into niches of historic fame, and the tear of pit) is invoked over their untimely slaughter. Is not this state of things enough to sickeu nnd dis-gust frontiersmen and people who have been accustomed to live with their lives in their hands, the price only of unceasing vigilance against the predatory attacks of the merciless savage* f Portions of Idaho have been the scene of savage barbarities upon w hite victims, —men, women and children indiscriminately, of a devilish malignity w hich spared neither age nor sex, nor condition.- which would make the blood run cold to read or to listen to the recital of. The*) things are all r.ght. Our | lives, the sufferings of pioneer settlers are nothing. Indian barbarities perpetrated upon 1 the whites are all right with these *rlf-coinpla eeut philanthropist*, but once let a lien Crooks or a Gen. Sheridan return to these fiends in human shape “an eye for an eye. a , tooth for a tooth, as did Washington, Jackson. j Wayne. Taylor, and every military o«e*r of j the country who has ever yet been successful. m taming down Indian ferocity, and a howl of Jcensure and anathemas arises against braveand honest men for doing th,#r duty. All bon- j or in this matter to Phil Sheridan f**r what be and his subordinates have aecotnplished in that Piegan massacre. The memory of that deed will strike more terror into hostile Indian tribes, will have a more salutary effect upon j the conductof the Indian population wrest of the Missouri westward to the Pacific, than all the talks, and truce*, and treaties, and annuities. and peace offerings ever emanating from the American Government It will make thousands of good Indians who hear of this, from sheer fear of consequences in being otherwise.
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The Idaho World
Idaho City, Idaho, US
Thu, May 05, 1870
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