RESULTS OF THE WAR:*



furnishing arms and ammunition for Indians to fight our army
and murder our citizens.
   "Of the results of this year's war we have no wish to speak.
It is a heart-rending record of the slaughter of many of the
bravest of our army. It has not only carried desolation and,
woe to hundreds of our own hearthstones, but has added to the
cup of anguish which we have pressed to the lips of the Indian.
We fear that when others shall examine it in the light of history,
they will repeat the words of the officers who penned the report
of 1868 :-' The results of the year's campaign satisfied all reason-
able men that the war was useless and expensive.'
   " We hardly know how to frame in words the feelings of shame
and sorrow which fill our hearts as were call the long record of the
broken faith of our Government. It is made more sad, in that
the rejoicings of our centennial year are mingled with the wail
of sorrow of widows and orphans made by a needless Indian
war, and that our Government has expended more money in this
war than all the religious bodies of our country have spent in
Indian missions since our existence as a nation.
  "After long and careful examination we have no hesitation in
recommending that it is wise to continue the humane policy inau-
gurated by President Grant. The great obstacle to its complete
success is that no change has been made in the laws for the care
of Indians. The Indian is left without the protection of law in
person, or property, or life. He has no personal rights. He has
no redress for wrongs inflicted by lawless violence. He may see
his crops destroyed, his wife or child killed. His only redress is
personal revenge. * * * In the Indian's wild state he has a rude
government of chiefs and headmen, which is advisory in its char-
acter. When located upon reservations under the charge of a
United States agent, this government is destroyed, and we give
him nothing in its place.
  " We are aware that many of our people think that the only
solution of the Indian problem is in their extermination. We
would remind such persons that there is only One who can ex-
terminate. There are too many graves within our borders over
which the grass has hardly grown, for us to forget that God is
just. The Indian is a savage, but he is also a man. He is one
of the few savage men who clearly recognize the existence of a
Great Spirit. He believes in the immortality of the soul. He has



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