Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1868 — News and Miscellany. [ARTICLE]

News and Miscellany.

Origin andfotf of Our Indian Wars. 'causes of the several Indian wars during .the hast thirty-earni yapra, begriming with ttlrn iffaak Hawk wfftyoftUUtj32; wfoebewtdSWly #2,000,000, in 4tf* dustruotion of property, employment of tanilitis, volunteers, pensions, etc., $T,000,000 more, making'Ni4ki|Mlcafo ol W>Q9°.000, attended with a Idas of 4,000 of our peoplo. Officers of tho army nwl governare uiiable, even at this lute day, to tell what was the real ennse of that conflict They ure confldenttliul it was forced upon tho Indians in tho interest of brokendown politicians aud speculators. The Sininole cr Florida wi»r lasted nearly seven irs, employing the army aittt navy, the militia of Florida, aud volunteers from some of the other states, costing 15,000 lives and $100,000,000.. Jim number of Indians engaged was estimated by the Indian agent at COO warriors; tho army officers estimated their number at 1,000. Ncorlgr«!Jj6o of tbe Indians still remain in the evorgladcsof Florida. Tlie others were moved went of the Mississippi. Those in Florida insist that they were never whipped. The first cause of this outbreak was an interpretation given to three treaties: one requiring a removal of the Seminoles, the whipping of an Indian, and tlie imprisonment of Osceola, who escaped and became the leader of the war party. At about tho same time a difficulty occurred with tho Creeks, Chorokees and other Indians, costing in'the aggregate $1,000,000. In 1852 wq had the Sioux war on the plains; tlie cause, an liuliau killed a cow

worth $lO, the property of ol'a Mormon. — Tins watptested nearly four years, and cost about 300 lives aud nearly $40,000,000. Iu 1864 came the Cheyoune war, which lasted nearly a year, costing 1,000 lives, aud, with the Sioux war at about the' same time, $60,000,000. Cause of the outbreak with the Cheyennes, a false charge, made against them of stealing a horse worth SSO; with the Sioux the opening of a road and the establishment thereof in their country, in violation of treaty stipulations.— • The war with the Cheyennes ended witli a treaty -of peace in the Fall of 1865, but that with the Sioux continued until tlie treaty which wan recently made by tho Peace Commission. The Cheyenne war was resumed. mid—wurthtnrrtReven months iu 1867. in const(juciu-e ol the burning of their village by General Hancock. It cost'about 300 iives, nud from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000, and is not fully settled up yet On tho Pacific slop#, during the last 20 years, Indian out breaks have cost in the aggregate $300,000,000. In Now Mexico Ter., since we acquired it, three against tho Navgjoes have cost $30,000,000. Tho cause, the enslavement ot Navajoe women and Children by the Mexicans. The troubles in that Territory with tlie Indians have cost this government 8150,000,000. Indian troubles on a small scale in some of tlie States and Territories, with the expenses glowing out of a war, the claims ior destruction of private property, will make our Indian troubles foot up nearly $1,000,000,000 iu the last 40 years, and iu almost every case the limit was with-the whites. The present conflict with the Cheyennes, Apacheß, Amps hoes. Kiowas and Comm--dies, grew out of a failure to fulfill treaty agreements, and the blundering ot some of our military To destroy the roving Indiaus, as is foolishly proposed by some, will cost, taking the Semiuole war us a criterion, 37,000 of our own people, and 81,000,000,000, aud keep 100,000 troopß employed ten years.