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THE ORDERS UNDER WHICH GENERAL HAZEN REFUSED BLACK KETTLE'S OFFERS
OF PEACE.
HEADQUARTERS, MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSOURI,
ST. LOUIS, MO., September 26, 1868.
General W. B. HAZEN,
Fork Harker, Kansas.
I advise you through the Indians themselves to give out general notice that all Comanches, Kiowas, Cheyennes, and Arapahoes, that wish to escape the effects of the present Indian war, should now remove to the Reservation assigned them in their treaty at the Medicine Lodge; that you will have their agencies removed there, and their annuity goods delivered them, provided they manifest a proper spirit of peace, and that, pending the fulfilment of the treaty stipulations, you will use your means in hand to provide them food at Fort Cobb. * * * * * *
I have already reported to the proper department of Government my wish, that the agencies of these Indians should be removed to the Canadian at once, that annuity goods should not be issued at Forts Larned or Dodge, but at the head agencies, and that these annuities should consist in chief of food.
I propose that General Sheridan shall prosecute the war with vindictive earnestness against all hostile Indians till they are obliterated or beg for mercy, and therefore all who want peace must get out of the theatre of war, which will not reach the Reservation committed to your care, unless absolutely necessary. * * * * * *
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