The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-07-22
The Rsr.s sssrs.

Most minds like TO speculate about the origin
of the race. We love to go back, and dream
deans, and make theoFies, on the subject
"WhereioIel' do yon asa. Because We love
our race-loye humanits--would elevate it, and
know all we can of il.
The feeling is just. The dead live. Death is
the pathway to life. We stand over the bier
and look at the pale face, and the liieless form,
and weep, as if there were no hope Yet the
spint of that frame has just entered life We,
the mourners, are dead, and We only. Yet who
would cheek the FILLING tear Who shut up the
fountain of soHow? Lei the tears fall Let the
fountain gush forth They tell of our love TO
God and man, and as such are divine witnesses
of the higher, holer life.
The poor Indian, wild in his dreams, and Wild
CT yet in his sction, is full of poetic talk of the
spint land, and the origin OF his race For every
hing he has an emblem. Not a brave deed Is
iOne-not a suffering eBcOuntep-that is not
enbalmed in poetry. Their prophets seem often
10 anticipate what Will be, and always 10 expect
for their race higher hopes and higher destiny.
Opetheola afhms that the Indian was made be-
fore the white man, but that the white man will
dUom the race to degradation and death on earth,
bat that when ali aEa dead, the red man will be
frst in the spintland But The Seminole proph-
ct, Nehemathla, gives the following Tradition as
the most general among the tribes as TO the origin
Of the different races:
In the progress Of the negotiation at Camp
Moultne in 1923, between the L. S. Commits
sioneT and the Indians, II became important 10
ascertain the population Ut the Seminole nation.
By request, a census was handed IN by the chiefs
and on the Commissioners asking II the state
ment embraced the blacks, who were slaves
there was 50 violent bust Oh Indignation from
Nehemathla as 10 rtqulre rj0lnder and reprOOf
from those who represented the United States
On explaining the motive of the inquiry, hOwev-
or, that the commissioners, iH the allotment Of
territory, we're desiTUus Of providing for then
as well as the Indian, Nehemathla was reconci-
led TO the supposed mdginty east upon his peo-
E,le, and the negotiation proceeded and termina-
ted hamoniously. On the exchange Of docu.
Iaents and treaties, the commissioners received
the head chiefs OF the Seminoles at an entertain.
nlent. On the removal Of the cloth, flor Nehe-
ulatha, Blunt, and many Others, were not igno-
rant of the forms and courtesies Of the dnner-ta-
BILE \ and while the glass was circulating, Nehe-
matilda adyeued TO the unpleasant incident Of
the morning, in which he had exhibited so much
temper. Tie stated, that they had among them a
wise man, philosopher, who had communion
with the Great Spint, and that if agreeable 10 the
commissioners, it would be gratifying 10 him
tisit he should be heard, that they might read in
his revealmenls the only apology he had 10 offer
.for the iispless1re'h he Undergraduates ncgro
being considered a member OF the Red Family
The wise man commenced:
sln the beginning, the Great Spirit made this
earth, and he was pleased with its hunting
grounds, its Tich soils, lis mountains and valleys,
ITS oceans and MYERS lie decreed he weld
people it. He labored for seven days and he made
a NEGRO. Though gratihed at this first OF human
beings, into whom he had blown the breath Of
life, he was not satisfied. lie worked seven DAYS
more and produced an Indian. Though more
pleased with the second than the FIRST Of his crea-
ton, he was not altogether rcconciled to the Red
Skin. He returned for seven days more 10 his
iators, and the result was the White Man. He
gaied with admiration upon this last as the per-
lection OF his works. But the negro and the In
dian were stll alive; and what was to be done
to pIoinote harmony and preserve peace. The
Spirit thought awhile, and assembled his three
races Of human beings, at tho same time pla-
cling before them three huge boxes. On onewss
marked Hoes aud A1es; on aaother Baws and Ar
rows; and on the third Books He said TO the me-.
gro, as made you first, in justice, you shall
nave the first choice. Heseleeted the Hoes and
Axes. The Indian became restless, frantic with
apprehensions, and under his native impulses
was almost in possession of the box Of bows and
arrows before the Great Spirit ssid---You now
choose. The box OF books fell 10 the white man;
not by accident. but by design With the
most emphatic action, then said the Indian phi
losopher; "The Great Spirit has decIeed that the
negro shall fell the forest and tl the soil 10 make
subsistence fol- men. The Indian shall roam the
wilderness, and paddle his canoe on the rivers,
and in hunting aud fishing seek there his pastime
and support. The white man shall read and
gather those stores of knowledge, fiogn which he
is TO denve the rules for instructing ard governing
the others. While these relations exist, peace
and harmony viii prevail; disturb them, and no
other results can follow but anaiAilafioa 10 the
Black and Red races The Negro and Indian will
disappear before the march and rapacity Of the
white man."