Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-09-18
!. a FIRST Rate speech

lSskAt Ai0 iiSulutlVt bk1yuuhlie, VIAtn OCE"l
sioniof tbesopehing Of the Erie Railroad, a(tae
t Presidentand other "pale faces" had made4
speeches, DR.. Wilson, a Cayuga chief of con-
siderable notoriety, addressed the mulitudest
Webelieve that it was pretty generally admhtedl
to be the best speech of the day. We maj ke an
extract from it as reported for the JameStdiCn
Journal tt
Fellow CITIzENs:-I am Cayugan, and
regular descendant from the pure stock of Ma
tive Americans. [Cheers. Gentlemen have
boasted here tonight about Democracy; but
Democracy was established here long before the
pale face came upon these shores. My ances
tors were Democrats long before the arts of
civilization drove them from their hunting
grounds and the quiet possession of their forest
homes Cheers The orator from Kentucky,
who addressed you tonight, said that the pale
faces came here a mere handful, and had grown
to be great nation, but he forgot to tell you
that when they landed upon these shores, help
less and in want, the red man fed them with the
milk of human kindness that he took them to
his wlgwam, spread before them his ampest
hospalities, and entertained them as brothers
[Cheers.
Fellow citizens | am "to the manor born"
have no foreign prejudices to overcome.-
Cheers. My nation can trace its history back
to period when the territory dotted by your
proud cities AID villages was covered by the
primeval forest 1t has not medded with the
politics of the pale face, and | think that the
gentlemen who have talked here tonight about
Wings and Democrats had better left their poll
tics at home. Cries of g good, that's right
The pale iace has completed a mighty work
He has overcome the most imposing natural bar
riers he has pierced the valleys of the Della
ware, Susquehannah, Chemung, and Allegheny
and levcled the hills which were roamed owe
by my ancestors centuries ago. Now their de
scendants marvel at the dolngs Of the might
pale face. Our little ones are frightened at tn
fire, smoke and speed of your iron horse, an
run to us for protection. Cheers. But trus
the spirits of my ancestors look down with prid
upon the doings of the mighty pale face. The
cannot but be proud to see him accomplish hi
great destiny to see him fly from hill to valley
and ride upon the wings of the lightning
[Cheels If the New York Tribune is to b
believed he has carried his enterprises even be
yond this world, and receives communication
from inhabitants Of the other. | tried shol
time since to get a communication from m
friends in the land of the Great Spirit but the
had learned the language of the pale face sine
they had arrived there and could not undelstan
the idiom of the Cayugan [Uprorous laughter.
But, leow-citzens, in behalf of my tribe,
come to congratulate you on the completion c
your great work, Your passage, through on
territory, amazed my people; all nature Seemc
to shake as You thundered along, and the glgan
tic oak and lofty pine bowed in token of you
triumph Cheers. But the heart Of the Ca
yugan is warm, and he greets and welcomes yo
/, to his country. Prolonged applause
+ u DR.. w. then presented to President Loder
banner from the Cayuga tribe, upon which wa
inscribed the pipe of peace, their national EN-
, blems He accompanied the presentation with
! few appropriate remarks, to which Mr.. Lode
| briefly responded.