Iowa territorial gazette and advertiser. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa Territory [Iowa]) 1840-1846, 1845-11-29
From the National Iatelliyearer Of Fri lay.
by tMe President.

| Yesterday the Pottawatomie Indians
now in this city, visited the President, ac
c,mpanied BY their agent, Col. R. 5. FL.
lot. for the purpose Of paying their res.
poets to him as the head Of the Govern.
ment. Halliday, the Pottawaromie ora.
| tor, expressed to the President the grati6
cation which they all felt on seeing and
shaking hands with their great father
The President replied that he was pleased
10 see them; that soihe Of them were ole
men, who mad come long distance to at.
tend to what they considered matters d
Importance; and that they should be pa
ticntly heard, and full justice done them
The Government he said, desired to pre-
serve relations Of friendship and peace
with all the Indian tribes; he trusted that
before thsy left the city all their business
would be satisfactorily arranged, and thai
tn. Ratchet between red and the white
man nigh, long remain buried.
Halliday rejoined that they had great
respect for the Government Of tue United
States; that they had sold to the Govern.
ment all their country upon the great
lakes; that they never refused their great
father when lie asked them for land; that
their eply was like that Of good children
always "yes;' that they could not help
looking back 10 the fine country which
they had parted with, where they had left
the bones of their iorefathers; that The
country is no longer theirs but they love
it still, and when they think Of it, their
hearts aae sad. They had now, he said, .
country which they were told waste BE-
their home as long as the sun shines and
water flows; where they. were TO grow up
like the grass. Of the prairies. II was .
good country, he said, and they loved it
They had always lived up 10. their prolni.
ses with The Government. But they had
been asked to 90 Southwest Of The Mis-
souri,, and are in trouble, for they know
not what to do. $500 # .4.
4 Eleven. vi ters ago they were told, h
said, that if they had but one wigwatn OF
their present lands, they would see there
all that had been promised them; but the,
had not seen Il all, and therefore had ca,n.
all the way TO Washington 10 inquire .
their great father concerning i; that thief,
was was a cloud before their eyes, which they
hoped he. would take away. You are from
the West, said he to The President, and
know what your red children want. w
!! look 10 YOU "a. Justice. ytfsE.KtS
| The President replied that the Govern
mem would act in good faith towards them
| that the bargains with them had been vol
UNFAIRLY made on. their part, and should b
scrup,ilously fulfilled BY the Government
and that the Secretary RI War would 81
that they were heard and treated proper.
ly. Ell as.s sgs .E4.x4I44 asya. s3.d gt4a.i
The President farther said that he wonl'
see them and shake bands with thth
again when they gotiheir business adjust
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4 The Indians then teak leave BY shskinl
hands with, the Peesinsnt, the Secretary
War, the Commissioner Of Indian Affair
MI Crawford (es- Commissioner, ~
o.her gentlemen ptesert. The interview
was interesting; sndHthe nanner Of III
President 70 ~ Indians kind and cenfiia
'yorys. 1:sbxsi rr@a -. u .issfie u,