The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-01-12

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send representatives to Washington
vino preserve respect for the Oonsti-
tuition andaUnion, and who will at
least strive to reform the abuses and
arrest. the widespread corruption
which radicalism has fastened upon
the country.
INDIAN ELooUENcE.-Ith has been
mentioned by correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun. that according to
what seems to be becoming one of
their annual customs, several delegar
tions of Indian tribes will visit
Washington, early in the year, and
have an interview with the President.
not only of courtesy, but having re-
ference to treaty arrangements be-
tween, the Government and the In
dians. It is added, thatso savages
will accompany the party who have
never been before within the limits
of. civilization. II Satanta, Red
Cloud and Big Mouth should be of
the party, and consent to make some
speeches, such as they made on the
prairies last summer, they would
draw large houses, and furnish mo-
dels of force and beauty which might
be initiated to advantage by the most
conspicuous Congressional speakers.
Nothing was more remarkable, DUR
ing the progress of the late negotia-
tions with the various tribes of the
prairies, than the oratory of the red
men who took part in those councils,
as reported by the correspondents of
the leading journals The Indians
fame for eloquence IS traditionary;
but it might have been supposed
that, with the general decline of the
race, the fire that once kindled their
speech with something almost ke
inspiration, had gone out, but the
contrary seems to be the fact. We
are not speaking of educated, In
dians, who have been sent to the
schools and colleges of the pale-faces,
and afterwards returned to their wild
mode of life; but of the genuine
children of the prairie, who never
saw book, and who came to the
council fresh from the war track.
Such warriors showed themselves on
these occasions natural statesmen and
orators, and in the last respect, at
any rate, more than match for the
whites who met them at the council
board. The subjects discussed at
these councils, were scme means of
stopping the war, and at the same
time reconciling their natural rights
with our apparent necessities. In
telligent gentlemen, who were pre-
sent, bear witness to the appropriate
dignity and majestic reserve becom-
ing its importance, and natural to
themselves, with which they ap-
preached the subjec-the natural
beauty and simplicity of figure, the
strength and terseness of statement,
and delicacy, pathos and sentimen-
tality, the concord of sweet sounds
and effectiveness" OF their oratory.
On the occasion of oneof the speeches
of Satanta, protesting against re-
moval to the reservations, cores
pondent of the New York Times says
that when he graphically pictured
how he loved his land, his free life
and his traditions, there was a world
of feeling in his tones, betraying his
knowledge of the vast difference be-
tween the power of the aggressive
pale-fale and his wandering race. A
certain dim foreboding of the In
dian's fate swept across his mind,
and In its passage lit his eyes up with
a fierce light, as he exclaimed, eve
don't want to settle. Hove to roam
over the prairie; there am free and
happy" Whilst the Indians are cruel
and vindictive, and always O. barrier