However, that would harm others besides himself, and do me no real good, and so I let him stay.
I went next to the Secretary of War, who was not inclined to see me at all until he learned that I was connected with the government.

If I had not been on important business, I suppose I could not have got in.
I asked him for alight (he was smoking at the time), and then I told him I had no fault to find with his defending the parole stipulations of General Lee and his comrades in arms, but that I could not approve of his method of fighting the Indians on the Plains.

I said he fought too scattering.

He ought to get the Indians more together--get them together in some convenient place, where he could have provisions enough for both parties, and then have a general massacre.

I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre.