Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-12-15
The Poor Red Men.
g 10y telegraph, this morning, we have the
ioi'o"ing information from Florida:

io'o"ing information from Florida:
BALTIMORE, Nov. 22-9P. M.
Inc southern mail tonight has brought us
10" orleans papers of the 18th, which con-
@in iate advices from Tampa Bay. They
,sPresent that the Indians had refused to
'ed'e the country, and that Gen. Twiggs
. I preparing to hunt them out with all pos
slble dispatch.
read in connection with this, the simple
Dut affecting speech of Assumwha to Gen.
i"iggS, IN reply to the lattcr's demand that
~ indians should abandon their country we
iepI0quce 1t from our paper of the 10th inst:
we did not expect this talk. When YOU
began this new REMOVAL matter | felt as if
you mad shot me. i would rather be shot,
am old, and ! will not leave INV country.
zen Worth said he spoke for your Presi-
dent too-that he was authorized to make
peace and quiet in our country and that so
loug as our people preserved the treaty,
y"rs would. For many years you have
hto no cause to complain and lately, when
new bad young men broke the law, a thing
uat cannot be prevented among any pco-
pc, md we not hasten TO make atonement?
We met YOU as soon as we could, and prom
ined TO give ample satisfaction; and from
,Gt DAY we have not rested. We have Kill
~ one OF our people, and have brought
,ree others to be killed by you, and we will
ping the fifth. There has been much troub-
itand grief, but we have done justice, and
w came here confident that you would be
s;isfied.
Now when you ask lis to remove, / feel
although you had killed INC too. / will not
g nor will our people. ! want no time to
INK or talk about it, for my mind is made
~ As for the delegation (alluding to u
degatlon proposed to be composed of MEM
be' OF the tribe heretofore emigrated to Ar
kasas, and brought to Florida TO induce
thr friends to follow themO l did not invite
tht to come and see me. Some Seminoles
Wdt to Arkansas many years ago. We
we then sorry to lose them; but we have
mo- got over that sorrow long since, and
NO they are nothing to us, and we do not
dere 10 see them. / did not expect this
tai, and had | done so | would not have
heed TO deliver up those men TO YOU"
cad also the words of Billy Bowlcgs, an
otEr Chief, on the same occasions:
fNVe nave now made more stringent laws
TAN we have ever had before, and | have
iopght here many young men and boys to
/ n the terrible consequences of breaking
lAripeace laws. / brought them here thai
tGsy rsieht cSein5Alvc Hifatfes Hteifvefed 1T
toe killed. The business has caused many
tSrs, but we have done justice. ..
4 now pledge you my word that, if you
wilceasc this talk of leaving the country,
no tller outrage shall be committed by my
peole OF, if ever, hereafter, the worst a.
mog my people shall cross the boundary
an do any mischief to your people, you
.-I .,at l,,I, In. .,,,n 90. ..: o.s
clio talk. | will make up my pack and
shdder it, and my people will do the same.
WHvill all walk down TO the sea-shore, and
wevill ask but one question: Where is the
DO; TO carry us TO Arkansas p"
II is known that these Florida Indians
i've an undying, ~overpowering attachment
their country; they fought desperately a.
binst tremendous odds, tor years, to escape
be horrors, as they accounted them, of ex-
Eatriation; and it is a solemn truth that the
frritory which they now occupy was assur-
id 10 them forever, or as long as they should
Five, as the price OF peace and of the partial
urrender of their native land. 1t is true
ltiat murders have been committed by a
handful of their young men; but it is as true
HAT the chiefs have, i'll the language of As
llumwha, "hastened to make atonement."e
llhey have put one of the offenders to death,
lind given up three others to die on the gal
lows of the white man. They have done
Justice; fancy what would be the answer OF
he white men if the white murderers of All
Indian were demanded by an Indian chief
Would the justice of the pale faces decree
That the shredder of Indian blood should
IField his life to the demand of Indian ven
lseance? Let the murderous scenes that are
Tally enacted on our Western and South
western frontiers give the answer.-Com. .9dp