Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1822-03-19

even OF lmpressag on my lnlna WIZ
was said by each, AS it is, ! n.s ". y,
recall some of their use s'p'N"'5
mark. .-isnout Always remembering 10y
which speaker they were made.
The first speaker said, that he had
heard tie words Of his Great Father, and
they bad gone in at one car, but would
not go out of the other; that they had
seen our chiefs, orr towns, our buildings,
and were much pleased with all they
! had seen. They found the United States
| populous and powerful, while they were
/ weak ard few chat ,bss' 'Great 1pfril
had made some men white and others
red the white men could make Gne
houses, and clothing, and guns, and fur
niture. The red man could make no.
thing; the white man lived upon the ami
mails he raised at home; the red man
hunted the buffalo, whose skin he wore,
and whose 0csh he eat. Yet the Great
Spirit intended there should be red men
and white men, and protected them both.
He said that some white men had offer
ed to send preachers among them, to
teach them their way ofworshipping the
Great Spirit, and of cultivating the
ground, He said there we're good ma
ny buffaloes in his country, which his
nation wished to be permitted to hunt a
while longer and after he was dead, and
the buffalo cx,inguished, his nation might
fplant corn and raise animals like the
whites. He gave thanks for their new
clothes, protested friendship for the
whites, and hoped soon to return to his
own country.
The next orator, in different Ian
guage, began by showing his hands, and
stating that they were clean--unstained
with blood that he had from boy been
friend of the whites, and had been, on
that account, an object of suspicion
among his own tribe. He said he had
seen our towns and our churches, and
that we worshipped the Great Spirit one
way, and they woTshipped him another.
He, like the first speaker, deprecated the
habits of civilization SO long as buHaloes
were abundant in their country.
One speaker began by saying he had
been very wicked in his life he had been
like mad dog; he had killed men be-
longing to all three tribes, pointing to the
rest; but, since he had known his father,
( Major OF he had been at peace
For the last three years, he had been as
if his arms were broke--he had not
struck blow. e...
An ardent attachment to their country
as we'll as their habits of lie was ire-
qnently manifested. They said to their
" Great Father" you have fine coun-
try, great towns, large houses to live in,
line clothes to wear; but we love our
country as much as you love yours
| You love to work-we don't want to
work as long as we can kill buffalo and
steal horses. Oar villages are small
we wont lie and say they are as large as
yours--but our men are as brave. Such
as you see US, such are the men we have
left behind us. .4.ie. -s
Two of them spoke with grea, humili-
ty of the red people compared with the
whites, whom they distinctly admitted
that the Great Spirit had made their su-
periors. They all expressed the plea
sure they derived from their new clothes,
and one said he felt in his new dress like
an animal that had shed his old hair and
come out sleek in the spring.
Though they in general have COM
poscdness and se!C-possession which is
unknown to civilized man, it was clear
that the first speaker was not quite at his
ease. Each succeeding orator, however,,
seemed to feel less Of embarrassment or
rather reserve, until the fourth was as
loud IS you ever hcarda lawyer d, eoun-
ty court bar. ,sE I
After the chiefs and half chiefs had
spoken, each OF their followers also made
short speech. One Of these, young
man about Is years Of age, upwards OIL
six feet high, with remarkably hand
some face, Showed a hesitation at first
that produced general smile from the
more experienced orators. He was
nuen, enough, however, after he had be-
gun. He said that his father had died
when he was very young, and that he had
grown up like the grass which again
shoots forth after it seems to have bce:
killed by the frost. He was not yet
great mamie was mere boy-he was
not equal to his chief, but he endeayored
to keep close behind him Quitting one
fore finger close behind the other.) He
hoped one day to be leader in his tribe.
This youth had been mentioned by his
Chief in warm terms Of commentator
and friendship, and an epaulette Indirect
ly solicited for him.
When our lordly seq had finished their
speeches, which they seemed as fond of
making as are the members of some
other great councils, the squaw,a come
ly young woman Of eighteen, urged by