Beadle's Frontier Series #25: Indian Jim—A Tale of the Minnesota Massacre — page 70: what you’re looking at

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ee et ENDEAN JO, _.the artist, as they came out upon the prairie. “And these same vagabond fellows, somehow or other, take an especial | liking to me.’ “They are the ‘ noble warriors’ of whom you poetize so much, and it is the same noble men who are following father, mother and sister like bloodhounds—the same ones who will dance with joy at the prospect of seeing the reeking scalps of Marian or Maggie.” “I do detest those Vanes nd Indians, that are always on the borders of civilization. If we were only located several | hundred miles further west—? “Our lives would not be safe for a minute,” impatiently | interrupted young Brainerd. “It’s time, "Dolph, you gave up those nonsensical ideas, and came to look upon the American Indian as he is, and not as your fancy has painted him!” “T don’t believe they would have committed a single crime had they not been goaded to it by some great injustice.” ee ger 4 | | “Tt is true that they have been badly treated. From my > own personal knowledge, I know they have been swindled and abused by the traders and agents. When they demanded - nothing but their simple rights, and what had been promised them, they were met>with curses and kicks; and I know, too, of instances of starvation, when there were hundreds of dollars due them. , The causes of this great oytbreak, beyond all question, are those same traders and agents. [It is they who must answer for the whirlwind of death that is sweeping over the land. But can the oppression, however great, excuse the massacre of innocent women and chil- friends? ” dren, and of good and true men, who have been their “Tt palliates the act; for it is an indirect revenge, which | is more gratifying to them than to bear and suffer in silence.” _“ How sad it is that, when we have met with such severe | reverses in the South, we should now have this blow added also.” “Tt will last but a short time,” added the artist, rather es complacently. “It is but an ebullition of passion, that must find its vent in some way or other.” _ “The poor refugees are flying in every direction. If the Sissetons, the Yanktonais, and the Yanktons join the insur- - gents, who knows that we shall be safe even at St. Paul?” “ (eC) =comicbooks