INDIANS.
The Indian news to-day, is of a startling character. Many blows have been struck by the savages within the last few days, but the heaviest of all has fallen on the military force sent for our protection. The fifty men under Col. Forsythe had been detached to scour the Republican, and were doubtless deemed sufficient. The Peace Commissioners and Indian Sympathizers had so long and frequently asserted that the depredations were committed only by a few desperate, ungovernable Indians, that the military authorities doubtless believed them, at least to some extent, true, and hence so small a force was sent. While the fight is not fully reported, enough is known to establish the fact that it was a desperate one, and the chances are that the greater portion of them have been slaughtered. Instead of only a few Indians, their assailants numbered four hundred; really, for Indians, a very large party. The blow has fallen, too, on those who have friends that can and will be heard. Lieutenant Beecher, we are informed, was a son of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. He was a young man of ability and highly esteemed by his fellow officers and all who knew him. His death will have more influence in moulding public opinion on the Indian question than the murder of a dozen people of less celebrated parentage, and while we regret that he, together with Col. Forsythe and the Surgeon of the party, have fallen, we can but be glad that those who have fallen have friends to mourn for them and who can gain the public ear. [More...]
Source: Unknown, "Indians," Daily Register Call, Central City, Gilpin County, Colorado, Friday, 25 September, 1868, p. 1.
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