The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-06-12


publican, and am in for the fifteenth
amendment, but entirely opposed to the
sixteenth, namely: our militia to per-
ambulate the streets until late hour in
the night, when honest people ought to
be in bed, and when chickens ought to
be left to roost undisturbed. Very re-
spectfully, CHICKENS.
COLUMBIA, S. c., juno II, 1870.
INDIAN SPEEcH-RED CLUoD IN WASH
1SGToN.-The following is Red Clouds
speech to the Secretary of the Interior:
I came from where the sun sets. You
we're raised on chairs. I want to sit
where the sun sets. (Here the Indian
warrior sat upon the floor in Indian
fashion, and proceeded.) The Great
me naked. I run no opposition to the
Great Father who sits in the White
House. I don't want to fight. have
offered my prayer to the Great Father
so that might come here safe and well.
What have to say to you, and to these
men, and to my Great Father, is this
Look at me. I was raised where the sun
rises, and I come from where he sets.
Whose voice was first heard in thin land?
It was the red people who used the bow.
The Great Father may be good and kind,
but can't see it. am good and kind
to the white people, and have given my
lands, and have now come from where
the sun sets to see you. The Great Fa-
ther has sent his people ont there and
left me nothing but an island. Our ma
ton is melting away like the snow on the
side of the hills, whore the sun is warm,
while your people are liko the blades of
grass in spring, when summer is coming.
don't want to see the white people
making roads in our country. Now,
that have come into my Great Fathers
land, sec if have any blood when I re-
turn to my home? The white people
have sprinkled blood on the blades of
grass about the line of Fort Fetterman.
Tell the Great Father to remove that
fort, then We will be peaceful, and there
will be no more trouble. I have got two
mountains in that country, Black Hill
and Big Horn. want no roads there.
There have been stakes driven in that
country, and 7 want them removed. I
have told these things three times, and
now have come here to tell them for the
fourth time. I have made up my mind
to talk that way. don't want my re-
servation on tho Missouri. Some Of
these people here are from there and
know what say. What hear is that
my children and old men nre dying off
like sheep. The country don't suit them.
I was born at tho Forks of the Platte.
My father and mother told me that the
laud there belonged to me. From the
North and the West the Red Nation has
come into the Great Fathers House.
We are the last of the Ogallalas. We
have come to know the facts from our
father, why the promises which have
been made to us have not been kept. I
want two or three traders that we nsk
for. At the mouth of Horse Creek, in
1852, thero was treaty made, and the
man who made that treaty (nllnding to
General Mitchell, who performed that
service for the Government told me the
truth. Goods which have been sent out
to me have been stolen all along the road,
and only q handful wonld reach me to go
among my nation. Look at me. Here
am, poor aud naked. was not raised
with arms. always want to be peacea-
BILE. The Great Spirit has raised you to
read and write, and has pat papers be-
fore you; but he has not raised me in
that style. The men whom the Presi-
deat sends US, soldiers and all, have no
sense and no heart I know it o-day.
didn't ask that the whites should 60
through my country killing game, and it
is the Great Fathers fault. You are the
people who should keep peace. For the
railroads you are passing through my
country have not received even SO much
as brass ring for the land they occupy.
[ wish you to tell that to my Great Fa-
ther. You whites make all the ammuni-
ton. What is the reason you don't give
it to me? Are you afraid an going to
war? You ore great and powerful, and I
am only q handful. I do not want it for
that purpose. but to kill game with. I
suppose I must, in time, 60 to farming,
but ] can't do it right away.
Each sentence Of this speech was re-
ceived with loud grunts, denoting hearty
applause, from the Indians present.
On the banks of the Fox River, forty
miles from Chicago, is the city OF Elgin.
Built upon the sides of the hills, that
rise from the river on either side, and
peopled largely by an intelligent and
thrifty DOpulatiOn few towna Waai or