people, were orphans, men and women and childreu, Some of the children We were We were three months on the road. weak and sick and starved. When we reached the Omaha Reserve the Omahas gave ns a piece of land, and we were in a While we were working hurry to plongh it and put in wheat. Half of us were sick. TWe the soldiers ecame and arrested us. would rather hare died than have been carricd back; but we could not help ourselves."

Nevertheless hey and tlhe intention of the Government to take them back by force to Indiau Territory, roused excitemeut in Omaha. Omaha editor and two Omaha lawyers determined to test the helped. The news of their arrest, An question whether the Governiment had a legal right to do it. It seemed a bold thing, almost a hopeless thing, to undertake. It has passed into a proverb that. Providence is on the side of the heavicst battalions: the oppressed and enslaved in all ages have felt this. Bnt there are times when a simple writ of ha beas corpns is stronger tha cannon or blood-hounds; and this was one of these times. the United States for the District of Nebraska, these Poncas were set free by the judge of that court. of Judge Dundy staud side by side with that of Abraham Lin- coln in the matter of Emancipation Acts?

The Government attorney, the Hon. G. M. Lanbertson, made Bronght into the District Court of Will not the name an argument five hours long, said to have been both "ingenious and eloquent," to prove that a Indian was not entitled to the protection of the writ of habeas corpus, "not being a person or citizen under the law."

Judge Dundy took several days to consider the case, and gave a decision which strikes straight to the root of the whole matter-a decision which, when it is enforced throughout land, will take the ground of unserupulous thieves who have been robbiug, oppressing, and maddening the Indians for so long, that to try to nunask our out from under the feet of the horde