"In addition to the class of robbers and outlaws who find impunity in their nefarious pursuits upon the frontiers, there is a large class of professedly reputable men who use every means in their power to bring on Indian wars, for the sake of the profit to be realized from the presence of troops and the expenditure of government funds in their midst. They proclaim death to the Indians at all times, in words and publications, making no distinction between the innocent and guilty. They incite the lowest class to the perpetration of the darkest deeds against their victims, and, as to judges and jurymen, shield them from the justice of their crimes. Every crime committed by a white man against an Indian is concealed or palliated, every offense committed by an Indian against a white man is borne on the wings of the post or the telegraph to the remotest corner of the land, clothed with all the horrors which the reality or imagination can throw around it. In his most savage vices the worst Indian is but the imitator of bad white men on the border."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.9
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