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will move across Red River.
Caddo is nearer to Fort Sill than Denison, and would suit the Government better as a magazine of arms and stores.
Two words along the wires, just ” Go ahead, “ would bring ten thousand men to Denison, Caddo, and Limestone Gap in less than a week.
That country, Sir, is the garden of America.
If Ulysses S. Grant will only give the sign, I guess our Texan horse will soon be picketed on the Arkansas.”
I fear that editor is right.
Five years after the Indian countries are opened up to capital and labour, as every part of a republic must be opened to the citizens of that republic, the Creeks and Cherokees will own no more soil in Oklahoma than they own in Massachusetts and New York.
1875.
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