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The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1865., [Electronic resource], A burglar shot while Attempting to Rob a store. (search)
occurred a few nights ago, when a bend of these enemies of society, incited, perhaps, by the influences of Christmas to perform one kind action, garroted a couple of local reporters, in order to furnish the press an item. The North American Indians seem to die hard. Their character is essentially unamiable. They have none of the finer feelings of our nature. There are those who are given to exclaim, "Lo ! the poor Indian is!" The poor Indian is a great rascal, and as big a humbug as Barnum. It is altogether nonsensical to touch up the American savage with the hues of sentiment and romance. The colors will not stick. The paint therewith he bedaubs his own visage gives him a much more natural and life-like appearance. The red race has disappeared from this continent, not so much on account of the wrongs and injustice of the white man, as on account of their inordinate laziness, their love of rum, and their general untraceableness and imperviousness to the influences of civili