New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-17

And am going 20 leave you to-day, and I am going
hack va to %s his and @
dent want strange people that we know no,nng p1n
that a we ei have here and found yon and that
understand one another i don't want any more SUN
ont there their first thoughts how to I'LL their own
pockets We wantpreseryes In our reserves we m ah
lands that belong 10 us so that we may not be prey to
those who arc yicously disposed am g3ng nJo, u
good bye and give you an afectonate farewell l'feat
| appauseI .., m n,n noe
DR. Crosby said that they had just listened to the chief
OF the Sioux and they would hear from the orator
| chief, Red Dog who said:
have but very few words to say to you, my friends
good men for connses When he raised you, he raised
with good for counsels But now your connses are
These are my own men pointing to his brayes,; am
chief look at them and see II you can see any that
| (Great laughter and applausel. Whenever l call my
young men together in counsel, they all listen-iSlem
| have come together I'm counsel and want
and children to listen TO T6at sent aT
at first was IN my country and now nave gro%n
liars sent out there and am stuffed full with their lies
(Proracted laughter and applause with gruns ana cries
men OF respect therefore ask you confidently that
when the Great Father sends out men into our country
thai the men sent out there are the right men, just men,
and mon that will not do any harm. (Applauscl
| SPEECH OF DR. wAsIBURN.
| DR.. washburn was next introduced, and said: What
answer will you make to-day to what you have heard
from the warrior and orator chefs We have not asked
you here members OF this Indian Commission, out OF
curiosity gaze these rbankes and moe
casins We have asked you to confer with upon this
great national question. These business men. You
have heard these men, you have seen them They are not
men like other savages-wd men from the w00ds-they
are without our hearts and without our modes OF
speech; But can any OF You doubt that they are
men, beating with the same lifeDiOod anu wlthln
| frefuOm
And they nationality Of men whom we should feel
in the cause OF Justice truth and the question is
before you my friends The great problem s the Indian
race in this country In few years the whoe G1ne1
will be filed with the white race and nothing VIII DC ltit
for this poor red race what should pe done WIN ~ !en
| no." This was made known to the Indians, who ex'
pressed their pleasure in ond grunts On
would to God my friends that the great states an on
all Indian affairs, William Penn were mere toiayw We
would soon have little deGy IN settling s AZ
know that there are perpexites ana there are
others and which must govern orr councils mean the
policy of simple and Christian Justice ana h9not ina
as Common partaRers of our humanity and bound up
race who are DESTROYS partake your civilization and
education. give them and protect them in theiI reserya-
recIamable The capacities Of civilization will give
them justice and they have rights, and these are
ar g T" our captain for this backsiidne, for VIII
press the national policy in two words during an these
The management Of this policy has been left to an in;
feor bureau and those who 1--we IN rs mana and
| left and they are the cause OF an I uhs
TUpS naer We ope 3
noble President and secretary of the Interior MT
there will be justice done to these men, We believe
that the Government will go back to the old cenrse that
pursued. Till within few months that policy seems
ened We heed without fear and we ask for sim
pie justice and honor, and we ask you as people 70
ans that they shall have their rights aud be proeced
ask you members of this great civilized nation, as
men OF our own humanity and as believers In righteous
| and In truth. lApplause.l
| REMARKS oP THE DIR. BELLOWS.
The Rev. Dr. Bellows the next speaker. II had
been said that If you would only scratch Indian you
would find white man beneath his skin. The saying
true The Indians human beings. God holds the
scale between and Them and judges our conduct to-
ward them II the Indian Is more just and upright than
in the wilderness and he in ours Red Cloud and all
dans ought to understand, however, that the Pacific
| Railroad their friend and not their enemy. That
railroad brought white men nearer to them, showed
guickened Communication, helped away with preju
dice and corrected false reports OF Indian outrages We
these rascas who defrauding and lying about the
Indians by the throat, and compel them to desst, OF
! command Government at Washington to choke the
villains and the Government refused 70 obey then the
people could take the Government itself by the throat
and compel IL TO respect their wishes Tremendous APP
pause The Administration must listen TO TINS mg gh
must not should not be insulted. Secretary Cox had
hhss tHey would consider hard but Mr. Cox was not
OF the olytOngued kind who promise thing never
an eloquent aluson Red Clouds name, hoping that it
the redness OF devastation and war; but the rosy
| tint preceding new dawn OF better days.
HORSES FOR THE INDIANS.
Mr. Cooper announced that he had received dispatch
from Secretary Cox saying that the Indians would DO
provided with the IT horses asked for with which to
to their homes This intelligence wos received with
prolonged applause,
Judge Daily was introduced by Mr.. Cooper as gentle
man who had an Office In the Institute building. The
speaker proceeded to that % ago he had heard
Sam HOuston-a most competent authorty-decare that
he yet knew Indian outrage where the whites
had the original aggressers The justice had
usually given the Indian was the justice OF the vigilance
Committee.
CAUSE OF MORTALITY AMONG INDIANS.
The last speaker gentleman who said to have
passed three years among the Indians He had plan
to ameiorate their condition. He thought they only
needed and bakers to teach them how to cook
They did not know how to brown and powder their
and that was the great cause OF excessive mortality
among children.
SCENES AT TUE ADJOURNMENT
MI. Cooper declared the meeting adjourned
Hundreds at once leaped upon the platform, and in
discriminate hand-shaking with the chiefs began Dr.
Crosby announced in loud voice that there mm
nent danger the stage would give way, and the crowd
made precipate retrea, but enough remained to ad
NIT Of only narrow passage trosn which the Indians
coaches amid the cheers of the multitude, ana we're
| driven quickly to the st. Nicholas
In the evening, the delegation and those accompany
| ing took the train bound for Omaha.
The arrangements for the meeting in the hall were per
haps good the crowd anticipated and obtained
would admit but is always wise to give to reporters all
facilities needed that they may make correct record Of
80 interesting event.
THE sANTEE SIOUX LEARNING THE ARTS OF
CIVILIZATION.
YAYKTON, Dakota Ter, June 9.-In April,
1869, % of the santee Sioux Indians living
ton in Ne braska, few miles above this place. the
opposite side Of the Missouri River went to point on
Big Sioux River which forms the boundary line between