and yet he says it was fear and not principle which prevented his killing them while they were completely in his power; and, when Colonel Chivington appearcd at Fort Lyon on his mission of mur der and barbarity, Major Anthony made lhaste to acconpany hiu with men and artillery."

The writer of this letter says that the evidence given in this go-ualled investigation" was "largely talse and infamously par- tial." If this were the case, why did not all persons so "infa- mously " slandered see to it that before the year ended their own version of the affair should reach, if not the general public, at least the Department of the Interior? Why did they leave it possible for the Secretary of the Interior to incorporate in his Annual Report for 1865-to be read by all the American people- these paragraplıs?

"No oflicial uceount as ever reached this office from its own proper sources of the most disastrous and shamcful occurrence, the massacre of a large number of men, women, and children of the Indians of this agency (the Upper Arkansas) by the troons under the command of Colonel Chivington, of the United States Volunteer Cavalry of Colorado. **

When scvcral hundred of the had come into a place desig nated by Governor Evans as a rendezvous for those who would separate themselves from the hostile partics, thesc Indiams were set upon and butchered in cold blood by troops in the service of the United States. The few who escaped to the northward told a story which effectually prevented any more advances toward peace by such of the bands as were well disposed."

And why did the Government of the United States empower General Sanborn, in the Council held October 12th, 1805, with the Arapahoes and Cheyennes, including the remnants of bands that ad escaped from the Sand Creek massacre, to formally and offi cially repudiate the action of the United States soldiers in that tassacre?

Gencral Sanborn said, in this council "We all feel disgraced and ashamed when we see our officers or soldiers opp at peace with us. ** We are willing, as representatives of the President, to restore all the property lost at Sand Creek, or its value. He has scnt out his commissioners to make reparation, as far as we can, * **So heartily do we repudiate the actions of our soldiers that we are willing to give to the chiefs in their own right 320 acres of land ench, to hold as hiís own forever, and to each of the children and squaws who lost usbands or parents; the ak, or ak those who are war