. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . it of re-venge and hatred. The history of the border wars, both in the ways they were begun and in or four men yourselves, you wouldnt go in. would you? Youd wait until you got a betterchance, and could kill them without so much risk. Well, Indians feel the same way aboutattacking whites that you would feel about attacking those bears. All the authorities from Smith to Harrison are unanimous on this point. Any one who has
. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . it of re-venge and hatred. The history of the border wars, both in the ways they were begun and in or four men yourselves, you wouldnt go in. would you? Youd wait until you got a betterchance, and could kill them without so much risk. Well, Indians feel the same way aboutattacking whites that you would feel about attacking those bears. All the authorities from Smith to Harrison are unanimous on this point. Any one who has ever been in an encampment of wild Indians, and has had the misfor-tune to witness the delight the children take in torturing little animals, will admit that theIndians love of cruelty for crueltys sake cannot possibly be exaggerated. The young are sotrained that when old tliey shall find their keenest pleasure in inflicting pain in its most appal-ling form. Among the most brutal white borderers a man would be instantly lynched if hepractised on any creature the fiendish torture which in an Indian camp either attracts nonotice at all, or else excites merely THE IXDIAXS 529 the waJ^s they were waged, makes a long tale of injuries inflicted, suffered,and mercilessly revenged. It could not be otherwise when brutal, reckless,lawless borderers, despising all men not of their own colour, were thrown incontact with savages who esteemed cruelty and treachery as the highest ofvirtues, and rapine and murder as the worthiest of pursuits. Moreover, itwas sadly inevitable that the law-abiding borderer as well as the white ruffian,the peaceful Indian as well as the painted marauder, should be plunged intothe struggle to suffer the punishment that should only have fallen on theirevil-min(led fellows. Looking back, it is easy to say that much of the wrongdoing could havebeen prevented; but if we examine the facts to find out the truth, not toestablish a theory, we are bound to admit
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