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from the British territorial line to the borders of Mexico; and no man will think (whatever he may say) that I have not a right to deny unclear heaped upon those poor people in that letter, and to protest against the cruel , heartless, and unnecessary policy it advances, which, if carried out, must entail a long series of butcheries, terminating in the extermination of the American Indian races.

    As judge--jury, and Executioner, with the means of their destruction in his hands, (to cover the sins of butcheries past and of butcheries to come, and to mitigate the cruelties of approaching extermination) he tells the world that the Indians are "fiends,"--that "the Reservations are their last ditch, "and that they must be forced into them by the troops, and by the troops be held there, and there be tangible to civilization"
    What an encouragement and license does this (with the justification of the Piegan massacre) hold out to the tens and hundreds of thousands of setters on the Indian lands, to level their rifles on the poor Indians whenever they meet them, and (more suddenly to get rid of them as neighbours) to raise the cry of "mad dog", against them---of "scalpings and murders", and to call for the butchers. 
    He? It? unclear tells us that 800 whites have been killed by the Indians since 1812, that is, through the whole range of the great Far West. The questions arise here, who furnishes this list, and is it true? And if so, who reports the deaths of Indians who have fallen in the meantime from white men's rifles. If 800 unclear insert above line--see previous page for insert have been killed and scalped by the Indians, I would swear to the fact that 700 of them have forfeited their lives to the Indians by the laws of the Indian country; and if such figures in the Generals hands, call for a massacre, and obtain it, what amount of those figures will flow into his hands in a little time, and what will be the consequences?
    He? It? unclear tells us that in every day in the year he receives the most heartrending appeals from setlers of "fears of scalping and murders that may come upon them". If he replies to these potentials? unclear above the line insert in wholesale butcheries, and promises to force the Indian tribes with his troops, out of their countries, and into their "last ditch", what will be the amount of these "heartrending appeals" in a little time, and what number of butchers will he have to imploy? And what will be the result of their work, but extermination?
    It? If? unclear is massacre of the Piegans was but a local affair, and like an Earthquake, might have been forgotten in time, or under the brilliancy of his epaulettes been in a measure condoned; but the proclamations and promises in his letter, which apply to the whole Indian country, and to all the Indian tribes, are calculated to be in