Death, Too, For The-Heavy-Runner by Ben Bennett pg.125

"Considered in a military view the expedition was a complete and brilliant success," reported the New North-West on February 4. "The Indians were the aggressors...they spared not age or sex, and so they have been slain. They repaid peace with powder, kindness with contempt, friendship with fire, and sustenance with theft. They compelled war and have perished." The paper passed along an anecdote which reflected its feelings: 
"Will the Indians remain quiet now, do you think?" asked an anxious settler of Lieutenant Doane, of the Cavalry, when the expedition was returning from the Marias. "Well, I can't say," returned the Lieutenant,"but there are certainly one hundred and seventy-three very good arguments in favor of their remaining quiet, lying out on the Marias!" 
-Death, Too, For The-Heavy-Runner by Ben Bennett pg.125