[Footnote 623:  Intruders upon the Osage lands, as upon the Cherokee Neutral, were numerous for years before the war.  Agent Dorn was continually complaining of them, chiefly because they were free-state in politics.  He again and again asked for military assistance in removing them.  See his letter to Greenwood, February 26, 1860, Neosho, 1833-1865, D 107.  Buchanan’s administration had conceived the idea of locating other Kansas Indians upon the huge Osage Reserve.  See Dorn to Greenwood, March 26, 1860, Ibid., D 119.  Apparently, the fragments of tribes in the northeastern corner of Indian Territory had been approached on the same subject, but they did not favor it and Agent Dorn was doubtful if the Osages would [Dorn to Greenwood, April 17, 1860, Ibid., D 129].]

[Footnote 624:  He described him as a self-appointed guardian of the Osages, as a scamp and a nuisance [Coffin to Dole, June 17, 1861, Ibid., C 1223 of 1861].]

[Footnote 625:  Chapman, August 26, 1860, inquired of Greenwood whether there was any prospect of a treaty being negotiated with the Osages and whether the capitalists he represented would be likely to secure railroad rights to the South by it.  He asserted that the Delawares had been “humbugged” by their treaty, it having been negotiated “in the interests of the Democrats at Leavenworth” [Ibid., C 702 of 1860].]

everlasting sorrow and despoliation, the Indians have been fated to place a child-like trust in those least worthy.

The defection of portions of the southern tribes offered an undreamed of opportunity for Kansas politicians to accomplish their purposes.  They had earlier thought of removing the Kansas tribes, one by one, to Indian Territory; but the tribes already there had a lien upon the land, titles, and other rights, that could not be ignored.  Their possession was to continue so long as the grass should grow and the water should run.  It was not for the government to say that they should open their doors to anybody.  An early intimation that the Kansans saw their opportunity was a resolution[626] submitted by James H. Lane to the Senate, March 17, 1862, proposing an inquiry into “the propriety and expediency of extending the southern boundary of Kansas to the northern boundary of Texas, so as to include within the boundaries of Kansas the territory known as the Indian territory.”  Obviously, the proposition had a military object immediately in view; but Commissioner Dole, to whom it was referred, saw its ulterior meaning and reported[627] adversely upon it as he had upon an earlier proposition to erect a regular territorial form of government in the Indian country south of Kansas.[628] He was “unable to perceive any advantage to be derived from the adoption of such a measure, since the same military power that would be required to enforce the authority of territorial officers is all-sufficient to protect and enforce the authority of such officers as are required in the management of our present system