WHAT MAKES THE DIFFERENCE.
The Springfield Republican says that one of those stories of the frontier that raise the question whether a very slight scraping would not find us as genuinely savage as the red man himself comes from Fort Griffin, near the Texas frontier. A scouting party of fifty soldiers were ambushed by Indians a fortnight since; one man, a lieutenant, was wounded, not seriously, by a spent arrow, sixteen of the retreating Indians were killed, sixty-four horses captured. The dead Indians were all scalped, among them a young squaw, who was shot off the horse, and whose scalp was exhibited in a store at Denison. It was eagerly scrutinised, says the Denison paper; the hair is coal black; almost a foot long and trimmed square at the ends ; attached to the scalp is an ear with a rude silver ear-drop pendant. Had this been donej to a white man's wife or sister, the Denison paper would perhaps have dwelt in the vigorous language of the West, upon the barbarities of the red devils, and suggested the advisability of wiping such savages from the face of the earth.
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Globe, Volume IV, Issue 337, 12 July 1875, Page 4
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