The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-06-14

YOU afraid we will make war upon you LOOK
at me: am poor and naked; have no arms;
INV people are only handful, you are great
and powerful. Is the Great Father afraid we
are going to make war upon him We want
the arms to kill game with. We don't want
them to make war with on the white man.
fore. now come from the West into the
Great Fathers house to tell them fourth
time. came to talk with the GreahFatber. l
came to saw what I thought. Some Of these
days we can go to farming, but we cannot go
right away.
Each sentence Of the speech was received
with loud grunts, denoting hearty applause
from the Indians present. After Red Cloud
concluded, Little Bear made short speech,
complaining OF bad treatment by Soldiers and
others while he was engaged in farming ope-
ratons. Several of his young men, he said,
were shot while out hunting, and that ended
his corn raising. He reiterated the main fea-
lures and complaints Of Rec. Clouds speech.
Secretary Cox promised to reportall that
had been said to the President, and arrange
time for meeting with him. The present con-
ference practically ends the business of hear
ing complaints and determining action on
them. as was evidenced by the speech Of the
Secretary.
The Indians Entertained at the White
House-A Queer Scene.
The Indians now in Washington are the OBJ
jects of much curiosity, interest and attention
The reception entertainment given them BY
the President last week was attended BY many
distinguished persons. The Indians, bucks
and squaws, had high time. The! were ar
rayed in all their barbarlc inery-blankets,
buffalo robes, feathers, medals, DC. cores
pondent writes:
When the gas was lighted, they evinced
much curiosity. The table was covered with
flowers and all the decorations customary
on grand occasions. Strawberries, cherries,
ORANGES. bananas, ices, cakes of all kinds,
French candies and wines, were set odt in pro-
fusion. The Indians were the lions ofthe even
ing, and were assigned the places oil honor,
being waited on by the other lions, foreign
and domestic. They gorged themalVes with
the dainties. At hrst they evidently mad
distrust OF the Ice cream, ouG wnen luey
came to understand what 1t was they deVoured
quantities OF 1t. They managed the gold
spoons with great dexterity, and Red Cloud
sarcastically observed that he found the white
neople ate many things which they did not
send to the Indians, and that they did not
seem to live entirely on corn meal. me wine
of the Great Father went not untasted and was
appreciated to the full, as was eymced by the
falling asleep of some of the Indian im6lbers.
The souaws were particularly pleased with
the Swapping kisses, and pulled them with the
foreign ministers with charming ndtcete.
What they could not eat they carried of In
their blankets. The eating over, they retired
..with a succession ofgrunts" TO the east room,
where they were presented by the ladies with
bououess and such ornaments and tr1nkets
as they had about them. When the powWow
broke up an omnibus conveyed the Indians 70
their lodgings.
End OF the nd u n DipIomacy-Rei
Clouds Last Visit to the President
Fort Fetterman to Stand-The Indian
to be Protected, but not to Obstruct
Civilization, &c.
A Washington dispatch Of Friday last sums
up the result of the negotiations as follows:
at last the government diplomacy respecting
its Indian tribes has come to an END, anu tue
President has Indicated to the representatives
of the Sioux Nations that the particular con,
cession they most desire cannot oe sancCl0ned
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piain terms that not only is Fort Fetterrnan,
The eye-sore OF the Sioux Nations, to remain as
il is. but that where it Is necessary to have
roads running through the country TO anu
from the different settlements, that also must
not be disputed So the Indian question re-
mains In Stdtu quo, and tue next indications OF
lmportant Indian news will most likely reacn
here from the West after Red Cloud anu
Spotted Tail have reached the setting sun,
1 %ba
have so eloquently described their homes
to be in ali their orations before their
different paternal ancestors In this section.
Spotted Tail has started for that region com.
nlacently, but BY no means Satlshed. Reu
Cloud remains here for a week longer,
still smarting under wrongs wllch he qoes not
feel will be suppressed. They are both to
have safe conducts to the po'hts from Wnlcl,
thew started. That the government Is bound
in honor to do one thing is certain. Regard
inc the Indian visit here theyhave learned no
more of the mower OF the government than
they nossessed before. The burden OF their
speeches has been the greatness OF TINS nation
and the humility of their ownin point OF num-
bers and munitions of war. AT the same Time
that knowledge has not produced any declara-
ton of permanent peace on their part unless
the demands they make are satisfied. The
irntn is the red men "have asked for bread
and received a stone At the Interview OF
the the Red Cloud delegates with the President to-
day. which is the last ttey will have
with with their Great Father, they said they;
could not live excepting on Wild game, anu INK
"panly" expressed their preference ior the
delights of unciviization. twill be of no use
for the government to try AMI get the Sioux
espousc agriculture. They say they get hun
sry and have to kill their stock to sustain life
The truth is; no official here, particularly OIL
GERS of the army, imasnes any happy, results
from , the visit Of the Indians to Washington.
they will 20 back to the ctase,' and on the
war.path. The best points which the govern
ment has are in doing lust what 1t intends int n to to
Consistent with the appropriations for these
purposes, deprive them Of .pwder and ball,
and keep the frontier settlements well pro-
M tected by the army from the ,avages OF such
as Red Cloud. Fast Bear, BLACK Hawk, "et ~
onlne genus"