. History of Clear Creek and Boulder valleys, Colorado : containing a brief history of the state of Colorado ... an account of the Ute trouble : a history of Gilpin, Clear Creek, Boulder, and Jefferson counties, and biographical sketches. that crime been promptly and properly pun-ished, the people would not now be mourning furthe dead at White River. Our denominational humanitarians have hadtheir day. Their Congregational Modocs and Unitarian Utes have eachbaptized their newly-acquired sectarian virtues inthe blood of a cruel massacre. • The Indian policy of the
. History of Clear Creek and Boulder valleys, Colorado : containing a brief history of the state of Colorado ... an account of the Ute trouble : a history of Gilpin, Clear Creek, Boulder, and Jefferson counties, and biographical sketches. that crime been promptly and properly pun-ished, the people would not now be mourning furthe dead at White River. Our denominational humanitarians have hadtheir day. Their Congregational Modocs and Unitarian Utes have eachbaptized their newly-acquired sectarian virtues inthe blood of a cruel massacre. • The Indian policy of the Department of theInterior has been a humiliating failure. Let theIndian be turned over to the War Department,and let the Government, hereafter, use its ironhand to prevent outrage rather than to punish it. Thus it will be seen that for three months priorto the massacre, Mr. Meeker had been powerlessto control his Indians; that they had been roam-ing at will off their reservation, devastating thecountry and imposing upon the settlers, and thatthe combined appeals of Agent Meeker and were virtually disregarded by the IndianBureau. Aid was promised, indeed, but it did notreach the Agency in time to prevent the ItePBl
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