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Vol 1, No. 19. PORT ROYAL, S. C., SATURDAY, DEC. 27,1802. Price Five Cents.
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POETEY.
NOW.
Arise, for the day is passing
While yon lie dreaming on;
Your brothers are eased in armor.
\ And forlh tn Oia flcrlii im
Tour place in the funks awatta you;
Each man has a put to play;
The peat and the future are nothing
In the fee* of the stern to-day.
Arise from the dreams of the future?
Of gaining a hard fought held.
Of storming the airy fortnea.
Of bidding that giant yield;
Tour life may hare deeds of glory,
Of honor; God grant it may!
But your arm will never be stronger,
Or nodded aa now to-day.
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No chains so unworthy to hold you
A* thooe of rain regret;
d or bright *be ia liftil? ever;
Cftct her phantom im ftway,
Nor look back, a*ve to toots the lesson.
Of ? bOfeto strife to-doy.
Arise! For the hoar is y?ting ;
The sound that you dimly hear
It your enemy marching to bottle ;
Rise! rise! for the foe is near.
Stay not to brighten your weapons,
Or the hear will strike st tost.
And from dreoaw of ft ootning bottle
l'?t wiHwSkeaaA flndil yMft.
Hit Cut Of the Sioux Indian*?Interesting
letter from Bufcop Whipple is Begard to
ithem.
tftisfcop Whipple, of Jfianesota, has addressed
tax able and earnest tetter to tbe e jiior of the St.
Paul Pieteer, on the subject of tbe iste Indian
?mm ins hi that State, and the condemnation of
Ahrae hundred of the savages to be hong for the
aiurttera committed. It does aot seeas to be the
.e^jeot of the Bishop to ask nrerey for the murderers.
Be says: " There Is no man who does not
rfsel'that the savages who committed these deeds
<of lioleace must meet their doom. The law of ;
-God And man dike require it. Tbe stem neeessittici
of self-pro taction demand it. If oar own inefficient
system had not permitted the Spirit Lake
(murderers to go unpunished?if to* had not refuted
Jo regard them at tubjects of lau>?we should not
.have suffered as we have in this outbreak-"
The ofegect of the Bishop appears to be, in the
tflrst .place, to deprecate the mob violenee with
which the prisoners have been threatened?to dia pel
the popular frenzy th.it prevails in the State,
.clamoring tor their execution in a spirit of blind
vAMira*nr.e that mav e.isilv involve the innocent
* ""t3 ? ? " firith
the xuilty in the extreme penalty inroked
The secondis to arraign the whole policy of the
' .General Government toward the Indians, which he
.does.in a most able and effective manner, aid does
?not hesitate .to record his belief that the recent
horrora.in Minnesota are owing to the errors and
-wrongs of that policy. His emphatic language is,
".I believe God wiil hold the nation guilty.'*
The only doubts raised by the Bishop of fha
propriety of jmoisbing the entire lot of Ind/mk
coutlctw, seems based on the possible innocence
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of some of the individuals, Alii the present fury of
passion which unfits a popular tribunal to deckle
fairly on their cases. Ihe wqrda of the Bishop on
this point are admirable and;weighty,and should
go far to restore the people t>f Minnesota to the
sway of reason. He says t "
While we execute justice our consciousness
I ot wrong should lead us to tc? strictest scrutiny,
I lest we punish the innocent. ^Punishment loses its
lesson where it is the venge^ace of a mob. The
mistaken cry to take law into pur own hands, is the
essence of rebellion itself, si* citizens we have
the clear right to ask our rui&s to punish the guilty.
1'he State has the right*? arraign these men
in her courts; but anything^jce a mob violence is
subversive to all law." jfa.
But passing from the meruSW this special case
of Indun outrage and murdering, which we hope
now to see brought to a peac,/ul and just solution,
we think it worth while to oaf public attention to
Bishop Whipple's indictmea'of the Nation itself,
for its wrongs to the Indiana-wrongs not to the
Sioux only, under this Adttji)ii*tratkm,but wrongs
to all tribes and under all Administrations. Bat
the relations of the GovernWnnt to the Sioux will
do to Illustrate the whole.
Here are the Bishop's cha *es That the Gov
eminent regard* we inajau >-poe$ as "independent
nations," not subject to I piled States laws?
whereas they should be regarded as heathen w?Is
of the nation, and govern erf,'Jn that relation, aad
protected from their own int^taal violence sod barbarous
practices. Our tta|M ? atipulatkma with the
Indian tribes destroy tm independence of the
ehiefs, who soon becosi# lh*( pliant tools of agents
sod traders in schatwnto as 'idle the people. The
tribal form of goreraattet f dng thus debauched
-i gf.
fords no other, and Hurt Ujktnceforth uo lavo la
hold in dude the evil paeeio+s of bad men. No
punishment is inflicted among them for theft, murder
and violence. No effort is made to restrain
the savage warfare the tribes wage on each other.
On the contrary, says the Bishop:
" They have murdered each other in our streets,
fought beside our villages, even shaken their gory
seaips in our faces, and we did not know that we
were nursing passions since to break out in violence
and blood. There was bo mark of condemnation
upon their Pagan customs, for even high
officials have paid them to bold heathen dances to
amuse a crowd. The Government, instead of compelling
these men to live by hoaest labor, has fostered
idleness, encouraged savage life by payments
of money, by purchases of beads, trinkets, *scalping
luuves, and really given the weight of influence
on the side of heathen life. The ssie of firewater
has been most unblushing when we knew
that if it made drunkards of white men, it made
red men devils. j
' The Bishop next gives, w jat we all know is too
true, a sh ocking picture of the frauds, impostures,
cruelties and robberies that tor time immemorial j
hare been allowed under our Government to be
perpetrated on the Indians by traders, who defy
all laws, human and divine, to gain the eno.mous
profits of their illicit commerce. The wrongs of
these men bear their perennial fruit of blood. The
following fact, stated by the Bishop, is enough for
national humiliation:
" Oantdi has not had an Indian war since the
revolution; we have hardiy passed a year without
one. The same tribes there are bound by ties of;
aft'eetion to the English crown."
Of the immediate cause of the outbreakand mas
sacres of last Summer, the Bishop gives the following
account:
? Four years ago the Sioux sold the Government
about eight hundred thousand acres of land, Dejng |
a part of their reservation. Of $96,000 due to the j
Lower Sioux, they have never received a cent
All has been absorbed in el dms except $880 58,
which is to their credit on the books at Washington.
Of tke portion belonging to the Upper Sioux
$88,851 12 was also taken for cLiros. Of the large
b dance doe the Upper Sioux neither the agents
nor the Indians knew when or where it was to be
in the advertisement for Indian supplies, this
Fall, are 100 doaen scalping knives, 000 pounds :
beads, 100 dozen butcher knives, 150 pounds of I
paint.
paid. For two yean the Indians have demanded
to know what had become of their money, and
again and again have threatened revenge unless
they were satisfied. Softy this last Spiing, the
traders informed the Indiana that the next payment
would only be half of the nana! amount, because
the Indian debts had been paid at Washington.
' They were in some instances refused credit on this
account. It caused deep and wide-spread discontent.
The agent was alarmed, and as early as may
! be, wrote to me that this new fVaud must bring a
: harvest of sorrow, saying, " Qod only knows what
i will be the result." In June, at the time fixed by
custom, they came together for the payment. The
agent could give no satisfactory reason for delay.
There was none. Hie Indians waited at U? Agencies
for two months, dissatisfied, turbulent, mad,
hungry, and then came the outbreak, a tale of horrors,
enough to curdle one's blood. The money
reached Fort Kidgeley the day after the outbreak.
A pait of the annuity had been taken for claims,
and at the eleventh hour, aa the warrant on the
Treasury shows, was made up from other funds to
save an Indian war. It was too late! "
It is not a hopeful prospect, we fesr, that the
National Government will be able to reform a system
which is productive of so much crime and
i blood, but It is, at least the duty of all good cits- ?
sens to give their eounsel and efforts in tiiat direction.
N. Y. Timet.
Rebel Overtures for Peace.?'I he Washington
correspondent of the New York Tiibum gives
ft somewhat detailed statement or tne erurrs 01 me
leaders of the rebellion to correspond with influential
men in the North, with a view to ..n amnesty
snd a subsequent compromise. U is asserjed that
the desperation of the rebets has induced"* iuKu To * ? ?
this offer "provided the Government will allow
!" them to do so and resume their old mastery in the
| " counsels of the reunited nation.0 The Tribune t
correspondent says on what he deems the most undoubted
authority, that the matter has not only
been brought before the federal government, but
has been canvassed for upward of two weeks. He
professes to know the precise state of the case between
the confederate andUnionauthoritics, which
he states thus:
'< l>r. Rarnev a citisen of Baltimore, was recent
ly taken by the rebel pickets near Centreville, and
forwarded to Bichmond. He has since stated that
he went in the way for the express purj>ose of being
captured. While in Kichmond, where he has
numerous acquaintances, be had frequent interviews
with the members of the Confederate Cabinet,
and was admitted into many of the secrets of
the rebel programme. When the time arrived for
his departure North, he was sent for by Judah P.
Benj inun, who handed him letters addressed to
Gov. Seymour of iTiw York, Fernando and Ben.
Wood, Vallandigham, and Cox of Ohio, Senator
Bayard of Delaware, Beverly Johnson of Maryland
and a number of other noted democratic leaders hi
the North and in the Border States. In the verbal
cri v..n tn fir Hurnev no terras wero
UliUl UVifVipil ?
asked for. The Southerners toul him they would
consent to no terms, that if not admitted into tho
Union again as equals, they would not come in at
all. What they ask is the granting of an amnesty
to ail the military and civil leaders of the rebellion,
so that an election for Members of Congress can
be made during the coming winter, and that body
be called together at least as early as A pril. With
the heavy democratic gains in the 1 te elections,
the Southerners see that they could control both
the Senate and House, and they oti'er to let tho
terms of settlement between the two sections bo
made by that Congress. They say they will never
consent to any terms that the republican party now
in Dower can offer. A settlement, however, in
which they will have a controlling voice, in thu
next Congress, t ey are willing to abide by.
" Dr, Barney had an interview with both S. eretary
Seward and Preside ut Lincoln as soon as he
returned to Washington and. aeourdiog tohisown
st jry, those oflicials declined to eoesi er the matter
in the shape in which he present* i it to them.
He has since that time visited New York for tho
purpose ct seeing and eonversiog with John Yan
Buren, the Woods, and Gov. Seymour.? Bmto-n
J)diIn JJwr.iur.