Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-06-18

We request those who Lave feau inc 'a'e liz
dian Talk Of the President, TO read The follow
ing:
From the Savannah Mercury.
Alta Council of the Chiefs, Head Men, ava
Warriors Of the Creek Nation, convened ny
authority, The Talk OF the Preside Mt was CON
munic aied by the Agent. After proi"u"d ST.
lence Of manv minrtrs duration, oPrcKLED
SNAKR. w arrior whose head was white nfd
with the fros Of more than hundred ~'n'e's:
and who supported himself on The shoulders OF
two young men, iris supposed, arose, and spoke
as follows:
Brothers,! We have heard the Talk OF our Great
Father; is very knd he says he loves his red chill
dren.
Brotlers! have listened to many Talks from our
Great Father. When he first came over the WIDE wa
tiers, he was but little man, and wore red coat
Our chiefs met him on die banks OF the river saVan
nah, and smoked with him the pipe OF peaLe. Tie
then very little. His legs were cramPed by sit
ii ng long in his big boat, and he begged tor little
land to light his fire on He SAID he mao come over 81
make them happy He said he loved his red pro-
theirs: he was very kind.
The Muscogees gave the white man land, and KIM
died him fire, that he might warm himself; and when
his enemies the pale faces Of the South made war on
him, their young men drew the tomahawk, and pro-
tected his head from the scapng knife But when
the white man had warmed himself before the Indians
fire. and filled himself with their honiny, he became
very large. With step he bestrode the mountains
and his feet covered tie plains and the vahes' HIS
hands grasped the eastern and the western sea- and hs
head rested on the moon. Then he became our Great
Father He loved his red children, and he SAID. Get
q little farther, lest tread thee With one loot
he pushed the red the Oconee, and with the
other he trapled down the graves OF his fathers ana
the forests where he had SO long hunted the deer
p,ffo Ersot Eofh OIL children.
he soon made to them another Talk. He SAID, Get
little further; you are too near me- But there were
some bad men among the Muscogees then, as there
are now. They fingered around the graves OF their
ancestors, till they were crushed beneath the heavy
tread of our Great Father. Their teeth pierced his
feet, and made him angry. Yet he continued to love
his red children; and when he found them too slow IN
moving, he sent his great guns before him to sweep
his path+
Brothers, 7 have Esteemed to a great many Talks
from Great Father. But they always began and
ended in this Get little further; you are too near
me-
Brothers, Our Great Father says that where we
now are, white brothers haze aioays claimed me
land He speaks with strait ton ,ue, and cannon he
But when he Fl It came over the wide waters, whe ne
yet small and stood before the great chief at the
Cuunc on Yamacraw Bluff. he said Give me 1T
tie land, which you spare, and will pay you TOR
it's
Brothers! When our Great Father made us Talk,
on former occasion, and said, Get q little farther;
go beyond the Ocouee, the 0cmulgee; there is plea
country he also said, IN shall be yours forever
have listened to his present Talk. He says the land
where you now live is not yours Go beyond the MIS-
sssppi; there game; and you may remain while the
grass grows the water runs. Brothers! Will not
our Great Father there also! lie loves HIS RED
children. He speaks with strait tongue and will not
lie
Brother,l Ouf Great Father says that our bad men
have made his heart bleed, for the murder OF one OF ms
white children. Yet where are the red children wh'cn
he loves, numerous the leaves OF the tores
How many have heon r..-lar~a by his warrIorsf how
many h-ve been crushSI ben ath his cwn foots'eps'
Brothers! ou, GrttS father says We must go 10
yond the Mississippi. We shall there be under his
care and experience his kindness. He is very good
W. have felt il all before?
Brothers! have done.
Notes 5g he Translator.
M'Cal's History q, Georgia, vol l, p Sc.
ibid, -, 5.
See the History " the Seminole War and Battle Of
the Horse Shoe, Niles Register, vol. vi p. 14S, and
other campaigns.
s Vide the early Indian Treaties.