History of Washington, the evergreen state, from early dawn to daylight; With portraits and biographies . ess against tlie Sioux, even to their cxtennination—men^roomen, and cJiildren. Nothing else will reach the root of thecase. And he was right. War, as he declared ni)on anotlici-occasion, is hell, and we add tliat lie who undertakes toliandle that devil, especially in Indian form, with soft speechesand kid gloves is something worse than a fool. If it is inhuman,the Indian took the initiative ; the soldier who takes liis lift, in 102 HISTORY OF WASHINGTON. his hand and goes down to avenge or
History of Washington, the evergreen state, from early dawn to daylight; With portraits and biographies . ess against tlie Sioux, even to their cxtennination—men^roomen, and cJiildren. Nothing else will reach the root of thecase. And he was right. War, as he declared ni)on anotlici-occasion, is hell, and we add tliat lie who undertakes toliandle that devil, especially in Indian form, with soft speechesand kid gloves is something worse than a fool. If it is inhuman,the Indian took the initiative ; the soldier who takes liis lift, in 102 HISTORY OF WASHINGTON. his hand and goes down to avenge or protect the innocent settleror emigrant and his family is not there to set humane examplesor teach a Sunday-school. It should be an appliction of the similia si/nllibus^^ doctrine of like n/res like. and not ad-ministered lioma?opathically either. If the Indian does not desirehis women and children to be nnmercifnlly shot down, let himcease unmercifully torturing nnto death, with barbarities impos-sible to describe, the mothers, daughters, and infants of thewhite who unhappily fall into his Lllj;. AWOK, LENOX AM)W-DKf KOUNUATKjNB « I. I CHAPTER XXVI. A OF HORRORS—THE MOlNTAIX MASSACRE. Stnnd at this door witli bated breath ;A terror links gruesome form of dreadful death, The child of lust and demon dire need evil plan The innocent to wrong ; Mans inhunianitj to man To Hades might belong. —BuEWEliTny. There is in the liiiman mind, even among the Iefined and in-telligent, a strange hankering after the horrible, a morbid desireto look into gruesome and uncanny things, and devour detailsof terrible events ; to trace the course of some gigantic crime,its revelations, and follow it even to its final expiation ; to gloatover an analysis of UHjtives whose tliseased perversion eventuatedin a mania to destroy ; to make mental pout viorletns of the vic-tims of undiscovered sins. Let those who doubt watcli tlie half-terrilied but always deeply inte
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