The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-02-09
The Presidents speech TO the Omaha In

The Presidents Speech TO the Omaha In
| dinns.
We noticed the interview between the President
and the Omahas on Monday last, and now give the
rresidentsi mpromptu reply to the chief, report
cd In the InteHigsncU. Tai-thau and Monchooneha
addressed the President. complaining of the
wrongs they had received from their rcd brethre n
and the pale faces Tai-thau said:
| :" Whom return home will tell nv people tina I
| nave spoken as to my Great Father above. Ever
| since can recoliect, the kaws have been stealing
horses from me feel livery bad. There is ano-
thought them iriends. but they have been enemies.
| am sorry they not here to hear INV speech.
! wish we were all here before our Great Father
| together. will tell you OF another nation IOt
toes.) Every time go out to hunt they dig out
our caches, take our horses and cell them TO the
white men. Thesc people (thc Ottoes) have no
ears they do not listen to what you say. You
gave them new heart, (medals,) but they do not
listen to what you say. When they go home fro n
| here they disregard you.
| "Another tribe (Pawnees) do the same. When
| take what we leave behind, and steal our horses
There arc four bands of them. There is another
tribe, lSioux,) who do worse things than that. AS
travel over my country find it scattered Ill over
with the bones OF my people. killed by the Sioux
| 81 will now commence our pale face friends,
your children. Before they passed through our
country, we lived happy; now we are starving, and
people starving cannot live happy When we saw
our pale face friends passing we did not know where
they were going We thought you would know
something about 1t, and we thought to come here
and see you about it, They travel two or three
months before they get through with their travel
Our friends, the Mormons. we gave permission to
live on our lands, and they agreed when they went
away to leave every thing to u.s. But when they
went away we could see nothing that they left be,
| hind but stumps Of trees, and no trees there
"Another thing have to say, and that ia about
| the treaty. We sold only part of the country
east OF the Missouri; know the line all the way
oral vtYlY mil hott h.,,,s
ers than we; they catch game by hundreds we
| cannot do that. This country am talking Of il
very plain; we sold lower down towards The Mis-
souri, (; the land north did not sell. have not
come to beg in what have said to day. but come
to get our rights come to tell you, that you may
know il yourself.
agent. When had pretty good looking mule
he would say, 'Ah, All, will give you SO much for
this mule This ia what my father does, and he
does the same to the Pawnees. Our father made
other people obey him, and ordered them to give
the Omahas good hickory, q whipping,) and
many of our people have suffered and been panied.
When we go to complain to our father. the agent,
he knows how to do he picks I'D stick and whit
ties it, and will not listen to US. Our father had
his brother I'M law to trade with u.s. but our father
was the partner with and the principal trader. A
thing that made US feel very bad was this those
Indians that were last here met us, and sent let
ter here to you, saying we were not proper to come
here to see our Great Father. We have heard it
has been said We had been showing ourselves, and
have gone about to show ourselves; we have not
come here for any such purpose, but to have talk
with you The friends that have brought US here
are our best friends.
"Ihave done and am glad that have been able
to speak to my Great Father
MR.. FILLMoRE's REPLY.
The President replied by repeating his gratihca-
ton at seeing his red friends. He was happy to
meet them in the presence Of 30 many of the chiefs
OF the white people; the Secretary of the Interior
who takes care Of all his children white and red
the Secretary of War; the great war chief the chief
who takes particular care of the Indians and who
attends to all their wants. The President was GLAD
to hear tie Omahas were good Indians, and when
they made a treaty always kept it. He knew they
had come long way, and without the father he
had sent amongst them. He sorry the father
he bad sent amongst them had not done as he ought
to do.
=" am sorry (said the President) to hear he takes
away your mules, and otherw gives you dissat-
sfaction, II, inquiry, should find that ia the
case, and that his brother in law il trading with
you as his partner, shnll that he be punished
FOR his misconduct.
81 cannot go and my red children myself,
nor can the war chief here, nor the Secretary OF
sioner Of Indian Affairs. IL the men we have sent
have done wrong, we will have them punished /
am sorry TO hear that the Osa gcs and the Pawnees
and the otsoes, aud Sioux, have been guilty al
stealing your provisions, and horses, and mules; 1
Will do what can to have IL prev sn ted hers4f,c~
am also sorry to learn that the Sioux have killed
your people, and have left their bones upon the
ground. The Great Spirit don't like war And
do not like war; and am glad to hear that you do
not wish 10 go to war, and that you are for pence
am sorry 10 hear that the whites in passing
through your country give you trouble We do
not intend them to do you any harm and they
must pay you for all they get of you. Still we
want you TO let them go through your country; IL
Is the only way they have to go TO our possessions
hmm -.
der or inJure their property, and they shall be
permitted 10 harm yours. am sorry TO hear what
you have said about the Mormons; will take
care that such things shall not be done hereafter.
] do not intend TO let any whites live on the land
you have not ceded 10 the United States.
fou say your nation ~ poor; that you oress in
SKINS have no clothes, and tina, you live by The
chase. IL gives mo groat pain TO know that nay
red children have suffered. The only way 10 pre-
vent this hereafter 10 to depend on what you rsise
and the cattle you keep for your support. Ia the
summer you must plant corn, raise cattle and
hogs, and then live upon them In the winter To
enable you TO do 90 will get the Great Council 10
buy some boes, and nIes, and shovsls. to TIL your
ground with and raise your corn. Then you will
not DO afraid Of starving hereafter. You see how
many white people live in the great cities and
towns, and steamboats, and railroad in this
country. The reason Of the difference between
them and you 10, that the whites till the ground
and raise plants 20 live upon.
81 want all my children, red and white, TO live
in peace, and wish to them all prosperous and
happy, and none Of them In danger Of starving II
is a mistake that you have heard that the Ottoos
have cent letter to me speaking IN Of you. Ihavs
recsived no such letter. will get the Great Coun-
ol 70 give me power TO give you some clothing and
provision, as well "a hoes and arcs But you Tnu.t
not be impatient, for II takes some time for the
Great Council to do THE, and they will ouly do IL
by your being good children, obcyiug tb. lave
and keeping the peace. This is all have 10 cay 90
you wish you pleasant journey home, and that
you may find your friends and people veil, and
that you may be sstished with your Journey 20
your Great Father. II you have any trouble here
after, get some one to write TO me, and we will
hook INTO the matter, 80 that you shall have jus-
tice."
GREAT WHEAT AND Cops STATEs.-A corro-
sPondont Of tho Pittsburgh Goasus. writing from
THE city, Gays:
FROM the abstracts Of statistical returns nt the
Census Office il appears that Pennsylvania in 1851
was the largest whcat-producing State in the