The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-07-15

The following commentary on the tdK latc-
ly addressed to them, by their Great Father
at Washington, is such as an Indian, who
thinks much before he speaks, might well
be supposed to make. This poor remnant
of a once powerful sovereignty" have sue
cessfully cultivated the arts OF peace and
civilized life. They have become husband
men and epherds--boasting like ourselves,
large flocks and herds, and rich fields OF
waving grain. AS necessary consequence
of this improvement i'll their pursuits, re-
sources, and moral condition, they have be-
come bound to the domestic hearth in the
closest ties of affection. They are noiV it
appears, to be virtually scared away from
their home and country, to the end that
their present fair possessions may be divid-
ell among the people of Georgia, by way of
Lottery These, in a word, are the means,
and this the object. Is it consistent with
the honor, we will not say the mngnanimity,
or Justice of our country, that such things
should be.-Bdltimore Patriot.
From the Sauannah .iiercu1y.
INDIAN TALK.
At a council of the chiefs, head men, and
warriors of the Creek Nation, convened by
authority, the talk of the President was
communicated by the Agent. After a pro-
found silence of many minutes duration,
SPECIFIED Snake, warrior, whose head Was
whitened with the frost of more than a hun
dred winters, ant! who Supported himself on
the shoulders of two young men, it is sup
posed arose, and spoke as tollows:---
Brothers! We have heard the talk of
our Great Father: it is very kind he says
| he loves his red children.
| Brothers! [ have listened 10 many talks
from our great father. When lie first came
over the wide waters, he was but a little
man, and wore a red coat. Our chiefs met
! him onthe banks Of the river Savannah, and
smoked with him the pipe of peace He
was very little. His legs were cramped by
sitting long in his big boat, and he begged
for little land to light his fire on. He said
! he had come over the wide waters to teach
| Indians new things, and to make them hap
py,-he said he loved his red brothers; he
was very kind.
| The Mpscogees gave the white man land,
and kindled him fire, that he might warm
himself, and when his enemies, the pale
faces of the south, made war Oh him, thel
Young men drew the tomahawk, and pro-
tected his head from the scalping knife.
But when the white man had warmed him
self before the Indians FIRE, and filed him
self with their hominy be became very
large. With step he bestrode the noun
tains, and his feet covered the plains and
! the veliies. His hands grasped the eastern
and the western sea, and his head rested
on the moon. Then he became our great
father. He loved his red children, and he
said, "get little farther, least tread on
you" With one foot he pushed the red
man over the Oconee, and with the other
he trampled down the graves Of his fathers,
and the forests where he had so long hunted
the deer. But our great father still loved
his red children; and he soon made to them
another talk he said "get little farther,
you are too near me-" But there were
some bad men among, the Muscogees, rtdh1 G Il ;,
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 l have listened to great
many talks from our great father. But they
always began and ended in this" get a
little farther, you are too near me.
Brothers! Our great father says, "where
we now are, our white brothers haze at,eGyS
claimed the land" He speaks with straight
tongue, and cannot lie. Bat when he first
come over the wide waters, while he was
yet small, and stood before the great chief
at the council on Yamacraw Bluff, he said
=" give me a little land, which you can
spare, and | will pay you for it."
Brothers When our great father made
us a talk, on former occasion, and said
&" get little farther; 90 beyond the Oconee,
the Ocmulgee there is a pleasant country
he also said 1t shall be yourS for euer." |
have listened to his present talk: he says
the land where you now live is not yours
go beyond the Mississippi; there is game,
and you may remain while the grass grows
or the water runs. Brothers, will not our
great father come there also? he loves his
red children. He speaks with strait
tongue, and will not lie.
Brothers Our great father says that our
bad men have made his heart bleed, for the
murder of one of his white children. Yet
where are the red children which he loves,
once as numerous as the leaves of the for
est how many have been murdered by his
warriors; how many have been crushed
beneath his own footsteps
/ Brothers Our great father says we must
go beyond the Mississippi. We shall there
be under his care, and experience his kind
ness. He is very good We have felt it
all before
Brothers | have done.
! SLAVERY IN COLOMBIA The anxiety
and efforts of the Colombian government to
rid themselves of the curse of slavery, and
to reinstate an injured class of men in the
enjoyment of those rights which our own
Concfituf;o, Ioc1aro. L.