The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1867-11-14
The webster of the Plains.

During the peace negotiations at Med
icine Lodge Greek, Kansas, on October
Oath, Satauk, the senior chief of the XII
owas, and the Webster of the Plains, de-
livered the Following address to the Peace
Commission {:
"Hy Fiends-It has made me glad to
meet you who are the Commissioners of
the Great Father. You no doubt are
tired of the much talk of our people.
Many of them have put themselves for
ward and filled you with their sayings. [
have kept back and said nothing, not that
do not consider myself still the principal
chief of the Kiowa nation, but others
younger than l desired to talk, and ! left
it to them. Before leaving, l come to
say that the Kiowas and Camanches have
made with you peace, and they intend
to keep it. If it brings prosperity to US,
we, of course, will like it the better. If
it brings prosperity or adversely, we will
not abandon it. 1t is our contract, and it
shall stand. Our people once carried war
against Texas We thought the Great
Father would not be offended, for the
Texans had gone out from among his PEG
pie and become his enemies. You tell US
they have made peace, and returned to
the Great Family. The Kiowas and Ca
manches will now make no bloody trail In
their land They have pledged their
honor, and that word shall last, unless the
whites shall break their contract and in
vite the horrors of war. We do not break
treaties. We make but few contracts, aud
them we remember we'll The whites
make so many that they are liable to tor
get them. The white chiefs seem not to
| be able to govern their braves. The Grea,
| Father seems powerless In the face OF his
| children. He sometimes becomes angry
when he sees the wrongs of his people
| committed on his red men, aud his voice
| becomes loud as the roaring winds; but II
dies away, aud leaves the sullen calm of un.
| needed oppression. We hope now that g
/ better time has come. If all would talk
and then do as you have done, the sun o.
peace would shine forever. We have
warred against the white man, but it never
gave us pleasure. Before the day OF o2
preston came, no white man ever wen
away hungry. 1t gave us more JOY te
share with him, than it gave him to par
take of our hospitalisies. In the far dis
taut past there was no Suspicion amons
u.s. The world seemed large enough fol
both the white man and the rec man
It's broad plains seem now to contract, ahe
Z. the white man grows jealous OF his rec
brother He once came as trader; he
now comes to fight. He once came as {
citizen he now comes as soldier. liz
once put his trust in our friendship, anc
wanted no shield but fidelity. But nov
he builds forts and plants big guns OF
their walls He once gave US guns an(
powder and bade US hunt the game. w
then loved him for his confidence. lii
now suspects our plighted faith and drlve
US to be his enemies He now covers hi
face with cloud of jealousy and anger
and tells US to be gone, as the offended
master speaks to his dog. We thank tn
| Great Spirit that now all these wrongs ar
to cease, and the old days of peace an'
friendship are to come again. You cam
as friends; YOU heard our many com
plants. TO you many have seemed trl
fling; to us they are everything. Yo
, have not tried, as many do, to get GU
lands for nothing. You have not tried I
make a new bargain, merely to get tn
: advantage. You have not asked to max
cur aunuities smaller, but, unasked, yo
| have made them larger. lou nave hO
withdrawn single gift; but voluntarll
you have provided new guarantees TO
our education and comfort. When W
saw these things we then said, these ar
the men of the past We at once CAV
our hearts Do for Us what is bes
r Teach us the road to travel, and we wi
$ not depart from it forever. For your SAX
the green grass shall not be stained wit
the blood of the whites. Your peopI
shall be again our people, and peace sha
be our mutual hostage. If wrong come
l we shall look to you for the right W
know you will not torsake US, and te
your people to be as you have been. L al
i old, and will soon join my father; br
4 those who come after me will remembt
this day. 1t is now treasured up by tt
. old, and will be carried with them to tn
grave, and then handed down to he kel
/ as a sacred tradition by their children an
n their children's children.
8 "And now the time has come that
must go. Goodbye! You may not.s'
me again, but remember Satauk as Il
J. white mans friend"
ABOUT 400 acres of the Lee-Arlingtt