The only good Indian...

"By a private letter from Rawling Springs, [sic] we learn that the boys up there did not waste the Indian they captured up there yesterday, in fact he was an unusually profitable investment. After they got a scalp apiece off him, they sent what was left down to Fort Steele to the Surgeon there who will use it to good purpose in studying and demonstrating comparative anatomy."

(Later, in same paper: Sheridan vs Colyer) " Four-fifths of the Congressmen and Senators sustain General Sheridan in the position hehas taken in Indian affairs. It is generally assumed here that Mr. Vincent Colyer is a visionary humanitarian, whose observations, both in Alaska and on the plains, are of little practical consideration. A decided reaction has taken place against the Quaker and Samaritan policy adapted towards the savages, and a considerable number of the Western and Pacific coast are even hostile to to making any more Indian treaties or distributing food amongst the tribes. It is alleged that feeding the Indians make them to persist in their nomadic and shiftless mode of life. Sheridan’s catalog of recent Indian atrocities is generally accepted as authentic, and it has aroused abhorrence. The pacific, compromising policy is decidedly below par." --Laramie Sentinel.