, 1870-06-20
THE BLOWING or THE BELLOWS.

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but, after painfully perusing all the orations
of the Hon. Red Cloud, the Right Hon.
Red Dog, The great orator Of the Sioux,
and Of the less honorable Spotted Tad, We
feel compelled to say they MI lack one
essential feature Of white oratory, VIZ:
Point. These Indians have been heard at
Washington, and again at Cooper Institute,
New York. The only point made was the
statement Of Red Cloud that he signed
treaty in 1868 which he did not know the
meaning Of when be signed it, How do
We know he did not know the rneaningof it
Very likely the proof would BE-, if all the
Witnesses ware called, that he did know its
meaning perfectly. Il not, what is the use
OF making sc heaties" with q power that IS
incapable of understanding them. Bed
Dog informs Us, and it WAS all he delgned
to say in his speech, that when the white
men first came near the Sioux, he WAS thin
and spare, but the whites have SO stuffed
him with lies that he has grown fat, Phys
iologicalY, thisstatement does not commend
itself to the understanding Of white men as
-nrrl1ahIa u7-sr sl--la tlsv Ise~. DR.. Eel
lows assume that every word Of this painted
savage YVES revelation Of gospel truth and
proceed to say, that There must be no more
Of these orators stuffed with our lies p Has
he given a moments investigation to the
particular issue Of truth or fa1sehood
which Red Cloud and Red Dog referred to T.
Does he know anything Of the
merits Of the question upon which he
is assuming to decide He is "a ignorant
OF it as Red Cloud is Of minority represent
tation. When, therefore, Dr.. Bellows
ssys that, ttHe will take tbs govern
nent by the throat If necessary to prevent
it from trampling upon Bed Cloud" Bed
Cloud can put but one Interpretation on his
speech, VIZ: That il his demands are not
granted, the great city of New York under
the command of its great Medicine Man,
DR.. Bellows, viii march upon Washington,
tun ont President Grant and Congress, md
put in Dr: Bellows, or Peter Cooper, or
some other ssfriend Of the Indian who
will make the white men in the country of
the Oga1lallas pull up their stakes
and leave. With Red Clouds
knowledge of the whites and their institu-
hons this must be his conception Of the
effect Of tie great pow-wow which he held
with Peter Cooper, Dr.. Bellows, and the
Rev, Howard Crosby, and Of the meaning
of the treaty he there made with the ruling
powers of the city Of New York When, he
gets back upon the plains, therefore, and
finds that the meaning he has put upon
these words is not carried out, he will nat
urauy inquire If Dr.. Bellows has'" taken
the government byi the throat" Per-
chance he Will come down with
Red Dog from his two mountains
to Fort Fetterman or Fort Laramie,
| and will inquire of the comrnandant whether
The great General Bellows, with the white
choker has *staken the government
by the throat" as he promised, o,
whether he is marching from his
great city upon The little village whare the
big house of the Great Father stands
Thereupon the commandant will tell hin
that the Doctor Of Divinity who threatened
to give him all he asked OF to stake the
government by the throat didn't mean
what he said; that the only object Of hif
words WIS to make the white squaws wave
their umbrellas and the men pound on the
floor with their boot heels, which was wha,
the white people called "fame." Then, ol
course, Red Dog Will denounce nr. Bel
lows as bag Of wind, and Peter Cooper,
and Dr.. Washburne, and the rest Of his
New York friends Us the greatest liars ol
them all II Red Dog grew ia. on the lie.
he heard on the plains, how would he swell
ont under the effects Of his New York diet