other person living, to pick out or name twelve Wlite River male Utes, over sixteen years of age, who were not guilty, directly or indirectly, as principals or accomplices beforc the fuct, in the Thornburgh attack or in the Agency massacre, I know these Indinns well enouglh to know that these attacks were perfectly understood and deliberately planned. I cannot be made to be eve that a single one of them, of common sense and intelligenee, was ignorant of what was to take place, and that knowledge ex tended far beyond the White River band. There were plenty of recruits from both the Los Pinos and the Uintah bands. In with lolding suppilics fron the Wtite River Utes the Secretary of the Interior is simply obeying the law own personal responsibility, issue supplies to a hostile Indian tribe, and the country will hold him accountable for a departure from is line of duty. Inferentially the Indians are justified by II. H." in their attaek upon Thornburgh's conmand. Their ol jcct was to defend tluir own lands-lands bought, owned, and paid for." Bought of whom, pray? Paid for by whom To whom was payment made? The soldiers were making no at tnck; they contemplated none. The agent had no authority to order an attack. He could not proclaim war. He could have o control whatever over tlhe troops. But his life was in danger. The honor of his family wus at stake. He asked for protection. "II. H." says he had no right to it. His life aud the honor of his aged wife and of his virgin danghter are gone, and " H. H." is the clhampion of fiends who wrought the ruin He cannot, except npon his
War. N. BYERS.
Wasglon, D. C., Feb. 6th, 1880
The most itting reply to the assertions in this extraordinary document was by still further citations from the sworn testimony given before the Congressional committoes-evidence with whicl volumes could have beeu filled
LETTER III
To the editor of the Tribune:
SIR,-In reply to the letter in Sunday's Tribune, headed "The Starving Utes," I would like to place before the readers of The Traune some extracto fron sworn testimony taken in Colorado on the subicet of the Sand Creek massacre The writer of this letter says
The Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians asscmbled at Sand Creck were not under the proleetion of a United States fort."