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Your heartfelt sympathies expressed, for the poor Indians and their approaching fate induce me to indite this letter; and to your queries relative to the Piegan Massacre and the prospect of the extermination of the Indian tribes, my answer at the present time must necissarily be brief, but I will make it as explicit and as just as possible. | Your heartfelt sympathies expressed, for the poor Indians and their approaching fate induce me to indite this letter; and to your queries relative to the Piegan Massacre and the prospect of the extermination of the Indian tribes, my answer at the present time must necissarily be brief, but I will make it as explicit and as just as possible. | ||
As to the first, the Piegan massare, at the recital of which the hearts of all but brutes sicken, my opinion is (like that of all the world who don't think and will from political or interested motives) that it was an unwarlike and cowardly act, and not only disgraceful to its projector and perpetrator; but in the strictest sense, horribly criminal. | As to the first, the Piegan massare, at the recital of which the hearts of all but brutes sicken, my opinion is (like that of all the world who don't think and will from political or interested motives) that it was an unwarlike and cowardly act, and not only disgraceful to its projector and perpetrator; but in the strictest sense, horribly criminal. | ||
Impolitic, for a great, free, and | Impolitic, for a great, free, and magnanimous nation, that the lives of these poor defenceless people, and at least 200,000 others, should be placed at the mercy of one man who has the means of their destruction in his hands----and criminal and disgraceful in him, deliberately to convict and pass sentence of indiscriminate death upon a Band of Indians three thousand miles from him, and whom he never saw, because a few wicked and worthless squatters and speculators around them, to get possession of the beautiful valley in which they lived, represented that that their horses were being stolen, and that their neighbours were being murdered in all directions. | ||
It has been upon just such wicked and onesided evidence that all the Indian wars for the last thirty years have been got up, and that to my personal knowledge, as I have lived in the midst of it, I have several times so explained it to the government, and as often been told that it was none of my business. | |||
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To Professor Harper Dear Friend, Your heartfelt sympathies expressed, for the poor Indians and their approaching fate induce me to indite this letter; and to your queries relative to the Piegan Massacre and the prospect of the extermination of the Indian tribes, my answer at the present time must necissarily be brief, but I will make it as explicit and as just as possible.
As to the first, the Piegan massare, at the recital of which the hearts of all but brutes sicken, my opinion is (like that of all the world who don't think and will from political or interested motives) that it was an unwarlike and cowardly act, and not only disgraceful to its projector and perpetrator; but in the strictest sense, horribly criminal.
Impolitic, for a great, free, and magnanimous nation, that the lives of these poor defenceless people, and at least 200,000 others, should be placed at the mercy of one man who has the means of their destruction in his hands----and criminal and disgraceful in him, deliberately to convict and pass sentence of indiscriminate death upon a Band of Indians three thousand miles from him, and whom he never saw, because a few wicked and worthless squatters and speculators around them, to get possession of the beautiful valley in which they lived, represented that that their horses were being stolen, and that their neighbours were being murdered in all directions.
It has been upon just such wicked and onesided evidence that all the Indian wars for the last thirty years have been got up, and that to my personal knowledge, as I have lived in the midst of it, I have several times so explained it to the government, and as often been told that it was none of my business.