The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1870-06-09
RED CLOUD.
lie Makes "a Bix Taik.''


The telegraph reports another speech by
the Indian Chief, Red Cloud. It was de-
lvercd in "council' Mt Washington, on
Tuesday Inst. The telegraph having
eliminated the grammatical inaccuracies, y
vulgarisms and profane expressions, the
speech reads us follows:
came from where the sun sets. You
were raised on chairs. l want 10 set where
the sun sets. Here the Indian warrior sat
upon the floor, Indian fashion, and pro-
cccdcd.
The great spiri, has raised me this way.
He raised me naked. / run no opposition
10 the great father who sits in the white
house. | don't want TO fight. l have
offered my prayer 10 the great father, so
that ! might come here safe and well.
What | have to say TO you and these men
and to my great father is this: Look ut
me; was raised where the sun rises and
l came from where he sets. Whose voice
was first heard in this land2 IL was the
red people who raised the bow.
The great father may be good and kind.
But can't sceit.
am good and kind to white people, and
have given my lands, and have now come
from where the sun sets TO see you, tho
great father has sent his people out there
aud left me nothing but an island.
Our nation ismelting away like snsw on
the side Of the hills where the sun is warm
while your people are like the blades of
grass in spring when summer Is coming.
| ! don't want 10 sec the white people max
| ing roads In our country.
Now that | have come into my great
fathers land, see If have any blood
when | return home. The white people
| have sprinklcd blood on the blades of
| grass about the line of Fort Fettcrman.
| Tell the great father 10 remove that fort
| then we will be peaceful and there will be
no more trouble.
| have got two mountains in that cOun-
try, Black Hills aud Big Horn; l want no
| roads there. Thore have been stakes
driven in this country, and ! want them
removed, | have told these things three
times, and now have come here 10 tell
them for the fourth time. have made up
my mind to talk that way,
don't want my reservation ON the
| Missouri, the home of these people. |
hear that my children and old men are
| dying of like sheep The country don I
suit them. was born at the forks of the
Platte. My father and ina told me that
the land there belonged to me.
From the north aud west the red nation
has come 10 the great fathers home. We
are the last of the Ogallas We have
come to know the facts from our father,
| why the promises which have been made
TO us have not been kept.
Goods which have been sent out TO me
have been stolen all along the road, and
only handful would reach me 10 go
among my nation. Look at me, here i am
poor and naked, | was not raised with
arms. | always want 10 be peaccable,
The great spirit has raised you to read and
write. and has put pepore before you but
he has not raised me in that way.
The men whom the president sends US,
soldiers and all, have no sense and no
heart; / know it to-day. / didn't ask that
whites should go 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 never
received SO much as brass ring for the
land they occupyi ! wish to tell that to
my great father"
You whites makelall the ammunition;
what is the reason you don't give il to us
Are you afraid am going to war? You
are great and powerful, and am only
handful. do not want il for that purpose,
but to kill game with. l suppose must
in time go TO farming, but can do II right
away.
His remarks elected commendatory
grunts from Indians present.
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