lands bought, owned and paid for of soldiers tlat tlie Gov- crnment bad sent there, to be ready to make war upon them, in case the agent thought it best to do so! This is the plain Eng- lish of it. This is the plain, naked truth of it.
And now the Secretary of the Interior bas stopped the issue of rations to 1000 of these helpless creatures; rations, be it under stood, which are not, and never were, a charity, but arc the Utes rightful dues, on nccount of lands by them sold; ducs which the Government promised to pay annually forever." Will the Amer ican people justify this? There is such a thing as the conscience of a nation-as a nation's sense of justice. Can it not be roused to speak now Shall we sit still, warm and well fed, in our homes, wle five hundred women and little children arc bcing slowly starved in the bleak, barren wildernesses of Colorado? Starved, not because storm, or blight, or drouth has visited their country and cut off their crops; not because pestilence has laid its and on them and slain the hunters who brought then mneat, but because it lies within the promise of one man, by one word, to deprive them of one-half their necessary food for as long a term of years as he may plense; and "the Secretary of the Interior can not consistontly feed a tribe that has gone to war against the Government."
We read in the statutes of the United States that certain things may be done by executive order" of the President, Is it not time for a President to interfere when hundreds of women and children arc being starved in his Hepublic by the order of one man Colonel J. M. Chivington's method was less inhman y far. To be shot dead is a mercy, and a grace for which we would all sue, if to be starved to death were our only other alternative
H. H
New York, Jan. 81st, 1880
This letter drew from the former editor of the Rocky fountain News, a Denver newspaper, the following reply:
LETTER II.
To the Editor of the Tribune
Sir, In your edition of yesterday appears an article, under the above caption, which arraigns the people of Colorado as a com munity of barlarous murderers, and finally elevates them above the present Secretary of the Interior, thereby placing the latter gentleman in a most unenviable light if the charges averred be true. The Sand Creek Massacre" of 1864 is made tlhe text and