Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1870-06-24

mula of Misunderstanding, the commits
sioner announced to the chiefs that
what Red Cloud had spoken to them
had been thought over, and the Secre-
tary of the Interior would now give
our reply. His words were the words
of the President on the subject of Red
Clouds speech.
Secretary Coz said--"We will believe
what Red Cloud says, but as ovr pco-
pie are frightened, we cannot say that
we will give them guns. We must
walt until thcrc is peace with all the
Indians before we can do IL. Our peo-
pie are not TO como on the Indian res
ervations, but they will come out along
the line of the railroads, and be near
them in this way. The government
will send Mr.. Brnnot (whose presence
at the council was indicated to the In
dians) this summer TO sec them, and
to see that they get tho rations which
will be sent to them. Whom he goes
he will ask what Is the best thing we
can do for them. He will ask them If
anybody has done them any wrong,
and they can tell him. When he
comes back we will try and do what he
says they need to have done. The
great thing we want TO say to them is,
that If they will keep peace we will
try to do everything they ask that is
right"
RED CLOUDS GRAFTON.
Thisconcluded theSecretary's speech
to the Indians, and after few mo-
ments, during which Red Cloud SEEM
ed to be in n very deliberative mood,
that distinguished chief arose and came
TO the table where sat the officials. He
shook hands with those at the table in
the council-room, and delivered the
| following grafton:
81 came from where the sun sets.--
| You We're raised on chairs. / want to
sit where the sun sets. Here the In
dian warrior sat upon the floor, in In
dian fashion, and procecded:1 The
| Great Spirit has raised me this way
| He raised me naked. l run no opposi-
| ton to the Great Father who sits in
the White House; 1 don't want to
fight. L have Offered my prayer TO the
| Great Father 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! | was
raised where the sun rises, and now
| come from where he sets. The ma
ton which has the bow and arrow, the
| red men and the whites, were raised
| together in this land. Whose voice
was first heard in this land? 1t 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 sum sets, to see you. Tho
Great Father has sent his people out
there and left me nothing but an is
land. Our nation is melting away like
the snow on the side of the hills where
the sun is warm, while your people
are like 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
unto my Great Fathers land, SEQ if |
have any blood when / return to my
home. The white people havesprinkled
blood on the blades of grass about the
line of Fort Fctternian. Tell the
Great Father To remove that fort, then
we will be peaceable and there will he
no more trouble. | have got two noun
tains in that country, Black He's and
Big Horn. | want no roads there
There have been stakes driven in that
country, and | want them removed.
| have told these things three times,
and have now come here to tell them
I for the fourth time. have made up my
: hmiHd to talk that way. / don't want
my reservation on the Missouri. Some
of these people here are from there,
and know what | say. What l hear
is that my children and old men are
dying Off like sheep. The country
does not suit them. / was born at the
forks of the Platte. My father and
mother told me that the land there be-
longed to me. From the North and
| A l.. n 10
the Great Fathers house. We are the
last of the Ogallalas. We have come
to know the facts from the Great Faith
er why the promises which have been
made to us have not been kept.
want two or three traders that we Rsk
for: At the mouth of Horse Creek, in
1852, there was treaty made, and the
man who made that treaty (alluding
TO Gen. Mitchell, who performed that
service for the government) is the only
one who told me the truth. Goods
which have been sent out to me have
been stolen all along the road, and on
ly n handful would reach me TO go
among my nation. Look at me here.
am poor and naked. i was not raised
with arms. l always want to be peace
able. The Great Spirit has raised you
to read and write, and has put papers
before you, but he has not raised me
} in that style. The men whom the
} President sends us, soldiers and all,
have no sense and no heart. l know
il to-day. What has been done In my
country | did not ask. The whites arc
going through my country and killing
game, and il is the Great Fathers fault.
You are the people who should keep
peace. For the railroads you are pas
sing through my country l have not
received even so much ms brass ring
for the land they occupy. / wish you
to tell that TO my Great Father You
whites make all the ammunition
What Is the reason you don't give IL 10
me? Are you afraid l am going TO
war? You are great and powerful,
and am only n handful. / do not want
il for that purpose, but TO kill game
with. l suppose l must at some time
go to farming, but cannot do it right
: away"
Each sentence of this speech was
received with long grunts, denotine
r hearty applause from the Indians
, present.
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