What a night must those helpless creatures have passed be fore this "conscnt" was given Seven hundred people, more than half of them women and children; a farming people, not armed with rifles, as the Ogallalla Sioux were, when, one ycar ground, the Chief Spotted Tail told Com give later, ou this same missioner Ifayt that, if he did not tribe on the way back to White Clay Creck in ten days, his young men would go on the war-path at once; and the much- terrified commissioner wrote the order then and there, and the Sioux were allowed to go where they bad chosen to go. Bc- hold the difference between the way our Government treats an order to hare is the powerful and treats the weak What could these Ponca farmers do? They must, "without delay," give their "final answer whether they would go peaceably did "by force" mcan? ment undertook to coinpel the Cheyennes Territory; and in that Cheyenne massacre the Cheyenno men, women, children, and babies were all shot down together !

What could these Ponca farmers do? What would any father, brother, husband have done under the circumstances? He would haveconsented" to go What or by force." lt was byforce" that the Govern to go to Indian

The agent, as was wisc, took them at their word, quickly, and that very day, "at five o'clock r.x., had the entire tribe, with their cffects, across the river, off the reservation, and in camp in Nebraska."

The agent should have said, "with part of their effects," for it was only a part, and a very small part, that this helpless consenting party were allowed to take with them. All their agricultiural implements and most of their furniture were left behind

"It was a hard day's work," the getting the tribe and tbeir "effects " across the river, the agent says; "the river being about forty rods wide, and the current so swift that it was fonnd impossible to move the goods across in any other way