The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-06-18

A FIRST Rate Speech.-At the celebration at Dun
kirk, on the occasion of the opening of the Erie
Railroad, after the President and other big "paIe
faces " had made speeches, DR.. Wilson, a Cayuga
Chief of considerable notoriety, addressed the null
titude. We believe it was pretty generally ad-
mited 10 be the best speech of the day. We make
an extract from it, as reported for the Jamestown
Journal:
FetioD citizens-I am Cayugan, and regular
descendant from the pure stock of Native Ameri.
cans. Gentlemen have boasted here tonight about
democracy; but democracy was established here
long before the pale faces upon these shores.
My ancestors were democrats long before the arts
of civilization drove them from their hunting
grounds and the quiet possession of their forest
homes. The orator from Kentucky who addressed
you tonight said that the pale face came here a
mere handful, and had grown to be great nation
but he forget to tell you that when they landed up
on these shores, helpless and in want, the red man
fed them with the milk of human kindness; that
he took them to his wigwam, spread before them
his amplest hospitalities, and entertained them as
brothers.
Fellow citizens, l am "to the manner born" l
have no foreign prejudices to overcome. My M
tion can trace its history back to period when the
covered by the prmeva Forest 1t has moi
Eneddled with the politics of the pale face, and
think that gentlemen who have talked here to.
night about wings and democrats had bette,
have left their politics at home. The pale face has
completed mighty work. He has overcome the
most imposing natural barriers; he has pierced the
valleys of the Delaware, Susquehannah, Chemung
and Allegheny, and leveed the hills which were
roamed by my ancestors centuries ago. Now their
descendants marvel at the doings of the mighty
pale face. Our little ones are frightened at the
fire, and smoke, and speed of your iron horse and
run TO US for protection. But trust the spirit of nv
ancestors looks down with pride upon the doings of
the mighty pale face. They cannot but be proud
to see him accomplish his great destiny to see him
fly from hill to valley, and ride upon ihe wings of
the lightning. If the New York Tribune is 10 be
believed, he has carried his enterprises even be-
yond this world, and receives communications from
inhabitants of the other world tried short time
since to get communications from my friends in the
land ofthe Great Spirit, but they had learned the
language of the pale face since they had arrived
there, and could not understand the idiom of the
Cayugan.
But, felow-citizens, in behalf of nv tribe. /
come TO congratulate you upon the completion OF
your great work. Your passage through our terri
tory amazed my people all nature seemed to
shake as you thundered along, and the gigantic
oak and lofty pine bowed in token of your triumph.
But the heart of the Cayugan is warm, and he
greets and welcomes you to his country.
DR.. w. then presented to President Loder a
banner from the Cayuga tribe, upon which was
inscribed the pipe of peace, their national emblem.
He accompanied The presentation with a few ap-
propriate remarks, to which Mr. Loder briefly re-
sponded.