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5 their effects vastly more disastrous than Indian butchery. How cruel and unfeeling the military sarcasm, that these poor people ("the fiends") must all be forced into the Reservations, their "last ditch", by the troops, and by the troops beheld these to be tangible to Civilization". what does this mean -- will not the poor creatures have been touched enough by civilization before they are dropped in their last ditch unclear to be more tangible? The Commanding General tells us that he has nothing to do with the Indian affairs excepting to protect the lives of the settlers; and in the same letter, that "the indians must all be forced into the Reservations by his troops, and by his troops be held there"; and political adherants to his policy tell us that "the Indian wars are waged only for the protection of the pioneers--that they are a great expense to the Government, and that nothing is gained by them"; but the whole of this is untrue. These wars and massacres will be the death of the pioneers; and whatever the cost of the Indian wars, they are the most profitabel speculations which the government is engaged in. Every battle that the Government fights with the Indians is sure to be a government victory. Every Indian was with the United States, no matter who is the cause of it, is a forfeiture of annuities, and who is to addup and tell us the millions of millions of profits to the Government, by annuities thus stopped?