. The western echo: a description of the western states and territories of the United States. As gathered in a tour by wagon. again,—sometimes giving them a trial, but rarely givingthem the deserved j^enalty. Persons seated intheir comfortable 7nansions in the land fromwhence savagedom has long since been driven,and where the protecting arm of civilization isthrown around them, are prone to speak of the2->oor Indian eking out a miserable livelihoodfrom the western deserts and barren mountains,and continually persecuted and provoked by thecruel white man, only waiting for an opportunityto ki
. The western echo: a description of the western states and territories of the United States. As gathered in a tour by wagon. again,—sometimes giving them a trial, but rarely givingthem the deserved j^enalty. Persons seated intheir comfortable 7nansions in the land fromwhence savagedom has long since been driven,and where the protecting arm of civilization isthrown around them, are prone to speak of the2->oor Indian eking out a miserable livelihoodfrom the western deserts and barren mountains,and continually persecuted and provoked by thecruel white man, only waiting for an opportunityto kill them oft. Oh,fie! Go see what/haveseen, and learn the truth, and your sympathieswill be banished by hitter scorn. Go see the pooremigrant, who has taken his little family to anew home in the sundown land, shot down athis labor and scalped in the furrow, his dearwife and innocent babes crushed with the hatchet,their blood spilled upon the cabin floor, andtheir brains spattered against the wall. Go ex- THROUGH THE WEST. 131 perieuce realities, aud have your all and deareston earth torn from you, and hear their heart-. \ I P B5O « w rending cries as they are carried off by savagedemons, and see how the red devils can mock 132 romsperts travels mercy and torture helpless innocence; and if thelire within your bosom dbes not kindle and youdo not say that the devils have it only too good^there must be little soul within. God knowsthat /would be the last to mention violence; butI have seen decency outraged and sweet infancytortured, and have witnessed so many sickeningsights that my blood boils whenever I think ofthem and ray right arm twitches for first tribe that starts a war should be madean example of, and the last wretch laid low; thenoutbreaks would be fewer. As it is, there iscontinually trouble all along tlie frontier, and noman is safe. If the Government would onlyempower a company of cow-hoys and hunters topursue them when out on the war-path, therewould b
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