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SI2 The Book of Woodcraft from the scene of the encounter, showing that they had been killed while trying to escape. — (Ethn. Aim. 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 wounded shoidd come forth and they would be safe. Little boys who were not woimded came out of their places of refuge, and as soon as they came in sight, a number of soldiers sur- rounded them and butchered Qiem there. — ("Ghost Dance ReUgion," 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 awce 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