An Outraged Kansas Journalist's Response (Circa 1867) to Eastern Bleeding Hearts Such as Henry Ward Beecher and Wendell Phillips

"Go......and point a houseless, impoverished man to the smoking embers of his dwelling, the work of savage hands, where but yesterday he had stock, grain and plenty, after years of hardships and say to him, 'the triumph of humanitarian principles!' Kneel beside the dying victim on the plains, scalped and disemboweled, and to his ear whisper, 'peace.' Clasp a maniac sister in your arms, upon whose body sixty savage monsters have glutted their passions, restore her purity and call reason to its throne again with words of 'peace.'......Could the arrow and tomahawk but reach a few of the 'peace' men in our national councils, their blood would color this Indian question with a hue that even Congressmen could understand." The Marysville Enterprise, August 17, 1867...……...Yes, what happened to the Indians was a tragedy (though it also must be pointed out that prior to us pushing them from their land, they had pushed other indigenous people off of it) but this whole notion of the noble savage is total bullshit, and the sooner that we come to grips with this cold, hard reality the better.