A number of officers arrived from Fort Lyon Sunday night who participated in the recent Indian scout from that post of which we gave an account a couple of days since. They brought up with them the rescued prisoners and report that the Indian chiefs who are coming to talk about peace will be here in two or three days.
    As we understand it, these chiefs represent a portion of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribes who have always been opposed to a war with the whites. They have but little if any influence over their warriors; the "Dog Soldiers" as they call them, and it is not likely that a treaty with them would have much binding force or effect, even upon their own tribes. Again; the Arapahoes and Cheyennes are but a small portion of the hostile forces arrayed against the whites. Even their entire withdrawal cannot much effect the present condition of things. The Sioux, Kiowas and Comanches are making most of the trouble and will do most of the fighting. If the Arapahoes and Cheyennes do not want to participate in the war, all they have to do is to withdraw to their reservation where they will be protected and not molested. The Governor long ago invited them to do so, and we do not see that anything more can consistently be done now than for them to embrace the offered chance.
    We are opposed to anything which looks like a treaty of peace with the Indians who have been actively engaged in the recent hostilities. The season is near at hand when they can be chastised and it should be done with no gentle hand instead of patching up another compromise to be broken by them again next spring or summer when grass is good and their food plenty.

Source:

Unknown, "Indian Treaty," Daily Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colorado, Tuesday, 27 September, 1864, page 2.