Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1857-05-21


gard TO the Territorial laws. Congress-
has recognized them rs binding. A ma
iority o that body gave Whitfield a seat,
and made appropriations for carrying on
the government. The President has re-
cogniso5 them as valid, and they must be
received us such. Neuer! from the
mulIilude.] You must obey them and
pay the taxes, [Ntrer, no nerer d! There
is where | nm at war with you. Then
let there be war. 1t shall be to the
knife, aud knife to the hit. ! say it
without excitement, and wish you 10 re-
ceive it as such the taxes must be coll
lectcd, and it becomes the duty Of my adj
ministra,ion to see that they are collected.
Then you bring the government in coll
fision with the people.
"But | see this subject is distastcful TO
you. ] came to Kansas to aid you in re-
storing quiet to the Territory, and to con
tribute my influence until Gov. Walkers
arrival, in making your country bud and
blossom as the rose. You have a bcauti-
full country. 1t is destined to occupy a
proud position in the Republic. We are
all American citizens, and should labor
side by side as brothers to make the coun-
try prosperous and happy.
"Longfellow tells us of n time when the
red men were warning with each other.
Their complaints reached the Great Spir-
il, and he sought TO allay the strife and
have them live together as brothers. Sc
the mighty man came down TO the noun
tains of the prairie, and standing upon the
craigs he called the nations and tribes of
men together. lie broke a fragment
from the quarry and moulded it into a
pipe-head, with a reed for a pipe-stem +;
he filled his pipe with the red willow, then
brealhed upon the forests, made its boughs
chafe together till q fame was kiudled,
when he smoked the calumut as a signal
to the nations. The smoke rose slowly,
first a line of darkness, her a blush va
por, aud then a snow white until IT touch
ed the heavens and rolled outward. The
distant smoke was seen from the Rocky
Mountains and the Northern Lakes, the
valley of the Wyoming and the groves of
Tuscaloosa, and the people came together
in council. They came with their wea-
pons and war-gear, painted like the leaves
of autumn, wildly glaring on each other
with defiance in their faces and the feuds
of ages in their hearts.
The Great Mantle looked upon them
with compassion, looked upon their wrath
and %wrangling as quarrelS among child
rem. He stretched his hands to subdue
their stubborn natures. He spoke in a
majestic voice and said:-
my Children,
81 have given you lands to hunt in,
have given you streams to fish in,
Ihaye given You bear and bison,
Ihave given you roe and reindeer,
have given you brant and beaver,
Filled the marshes full of wild-fowi,
Filled the river full of fishes;
Why then are you not eontented?
Why then will you hunt each other?
81 am weary of your q~uarrels,
Weary Of your wars and bloodshed,
Weary of your prayers for vengeance,
OF your wrangliuGs and dissensionsj
All your strength is in your union,
All your danger is in discord;
Therefore be at peace henceforward,
And as brothers live together.
"Bathe now in the stream before you
Wash the war-paint from your faces,
Wash the blood stains from your fingers,
Bury your war-clubs and your weapons,
Break the red-stone from this quarry,
Mould and make it into Peace-Pipes,
Take the reeds that grow beside you,
Deck them with your brightest feathers,
Smoke the Calumut together,
And as brothers live henceforwardw
We have not room to notice the speech
es of Judge Smith and DR.. Robinson, no
the toasts and speeches at the supper ia
bic. Suffice 1t to say IN short the Gov
? ernor's visit was by no means an unproti