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Show PLAINS AND MOUNTAINS. 217 - The white man he has been taught is his enemy, and he has become the most implacable enemy of the white man. His most fiendish murders of the innocent is his sweetest revenge for a wrong that has been done by another. At Fort Laramie, last summer, as I have before stated, there was an Indian Commission sent out by authority of the Interior Department at Washington, to treat with the Sioux and other hostile tribes. The president of the Com mission was a Quaker gentleman with a heart overflowing with the milk of human kindness, and he went there, as he said, to fight the Indian with a new weapon " Christian love." To those who understand the Indian character, and saw of what material the commission was composed, it was evident what would be the result of the grand council which had been so much talked about on the plains ; and what has been the result ? It is certainly not very encour aging to the commission. There have been more murders by the Indians of the tribe represented in that council than ever before occurred in the same length of time. Unpro tected immigrants have been massacred ; telegraph stations destroyed, and the operators and guard made to share the same fate as the immigrant ; five officers of the U. S. Army, and nearly one hundred and fifty men, have been murdered ; and the life of an individual is not safe outside the stockades of the forts in the country the commission came to treat for the possession of. Who were the Indians that met at Laramie on the occa sion of the treaty ? The best authorities represent that they were the old men, squaws, and their children, who made it an occasion for eating Government rations and drinking sutler whiskey, while the warriors of the tribes were out hunting and plundering, so as to secure a sufficient stock of necessaries preparatory to open hostilities that were to follow. An idea of the spirit manifested by even those who had assembled, might have been formed when an old chief comes forward with a pipe in one hand and a bow and arrow in the other, and offers to Colonel Maynadier, the commanding officer, his choice, perfectly defiant, meaning, |