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from the scene of the encounter, showing that they had been 

 killed while trying to escape, — (Ethn. Ann. 14, pp. 868 - 870.) 



As the men were in a separate company from the women 

 and children, no one pretended that it was accidental. 



The women, as they were fleeing with their babes, were 

 killed together, shot right through, and the women who were 

 very heavy with child were also killed. All the Indians fled 

 in these three directions, and after most all of them had been 

 killed, a cry was made that all those who were not killed or 

 woimded should come forth and they would be safe. Little 

 boys who were not wounded came out of their places of refuge, 

 and as soon as they came in sight, a number of soldiers sur- 

 rounded them and butchered them there. — ("Ghost Dance 

 Religion," Mooney; Ethn. Rep. 14. 885-886.) 



Nothing in the way of punishment was done by the 

 authorities to any of the assassins. When the guards of 

 Czar Nicholas shot down some scores of peasants who, con- 

 trary to orders, marched in a body to his palace, all America 

 rang with horror and indignation, but nothing was said 

 about the infinitely worse massacre at Wounded Knee. 



As sure as there is a God in Heaven, this thing has to be 

 met again, and for every drop of righteous blood spilled 

 that day and on a thousand other days of like abomination, 

 a fearful vengeance is being stored and will certainly break 

 on us. 



As sure as Cain struck down himself when he mur- 

 dered Abel; as sure as the blood of righteous Naboth 

 cried from the ground and wrecked the house and the 

 kingdom and the race of Ahab; so surely has the 

 American nation to stand before the bar of an earthly 

 power — a power invincible, overwhelming, remorseless, 

 and pay the uttermost price. 



As sure as this land was taken by fraud and held by 



