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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