The New York herald., 1870-06-13
spotted Tail, Swift Bear, Yellow Hair and
Fast Bear at the Astor House.
THEY VISIT CENT Al PARK.
What They Think of Landscape
Gardening.
THEIR FUTURE MOVEMENTS.
How They Like the Treaty and
Its Terms.

Indian like ice water Fire wafer bad inuah can
get 1t. Pale faces go 10 church; worship CLOUDS
Indian want 10 40 home. Thus thought II not said'
the four chiefs OF Sioux tribes VINO were
yesterday domicled at the Astor House. They
rose early, and Spotted Tail, swift Bear,
Yellow Hair and Fast Bear were provided
with that whcrew!th pay tribute TO the stomach.
Tney ate heartily and devoured the crumbs OF CIVIL
nzatlon with sort or magnetic zest tnat showed
weI how they appreciated the priceless gasronomi-
cal skill OF their pale-laced landlord who, in order
to better entertain his guests, procured those de-
hghtful dsnes that do not infringe too severely
upon the savage TASTE The mOrning meal over the
PAGERS OF the forest gathered about them their robes
and blankets and all the gaudy paraphernalia OF
THEIR WILD ATTIRE,
and, assuming expressions OF conscious superiority
over the pale faces, retired for little quiet 10
their quarters.
AS the day wore on they began to long for woods
and streams and deer and game. Their accom-
plished interpreter and Captain d. c. Pool OF the
United States Army who has faithfully represented
their every interest," then conducted them to the
CENTRAL PARK
IN carriages. They were amazed. Where the RED
men used to flourish among rocks and woods and
hidden cascades they saw territory covered over
with luxuriant scene OF cultivated beauty, where
elements OF toned and finished landscape
IN his mind, had painted on tn e
eartn's surface a modern Garden of Eden
They wondered, and well they might for
this civilization. 1t showed them type OF pro-
gress spread before their eyes 500 Of enhght
enment in America But they despised this creation
OF bea uty, this marvel OF esthetic culture. 1t was
only the puerie fancy and childish, efieminate toy
OF the pale face; IL would never 90 Tor the red
man He must live in the sound OF waterfalls;
his home must be endless solitude; his tenement
rude, savage, untouched but giittering, resonant
and bewildering nature-nature overhead-in the
deep chasm, in the dark ravine " the brooklet and
dell and beneath the burning sun. What was
that precise and mechanical Terrace to
himP what that superb Mall trimmed with
such exactness and resembling the downy velvet
of the pale faced sduaw's fashionable gown9 what
the green sward, the downy lawn ana broad mead
ows, as free from wild exposure as the Graded ba-
by's skim What was the Parods, covered though
II was with the gay co0rs that the red man loves?
What the tame animals who could better read anu
write than the Indian; the pae-faced deer in the
deer paddock and the affected aroma and
PATENT FINERY OF THE FLowEEs9
No, the Indian did not like these--they were all
OF an artificial dispensatlon. They were him what
heresy is TO Catholics what inhdehiy Is to the
Chrishan-ths building Architectural foliaged tene-
ments out OF the lands owned 10y the Great Spirit.
1t was the desecraton Of The pale face and the red
mourned. Why should they do these thingss
Why treat the Indian to the same behavior that
the poor suffers from the rich, that the
owly suffer from the great, that the worthy suffer
from the evila The Indian thought this pale faced
park was dissipation; it was indulging taste; it
was panderng to an appetite. Indeed. was this
civilization Then the red man wanted no cviliza-
tion. Indeed, Was this progress?
THE RED MAN WANTED NO PROGRESS,
for it destroyed; 1t cut away the great rocks; 1t
made roads for tie pale faces who were afraid TO
track the forests and pursue their own pathways IN
the wilderness; II tore down those great trees and
drank up tile streams and brooks. No. None Of this
fof the red man, though he died before the setting
sun mad gone away to the indians western home
Thus they marvelled at leaving, and thus they
aroused the lofty contempt OF their proud, savage
natures and left sigh on the green that we OF New
York are accustomed to believe the garden spot OF
the earth. Noble as their reverence is for the lost
natlOnalilies OF America the Indians, moved by
their blind, yet spausple, supersttions believe that
the whites are an accursed race of infdels They
think them towards. No men, they say, shrink
from the bow and arrow and the tomanawk; no
men are reluctant TO raise
THE WAR wEooP;
TO SIT around camp fires; chase the deer the fox ana
the bear into their secret caves ana hiding places
Tney laugh at The susceptibility OF white men 10
avoid the recondte treasures OF the woods, and at
ther taste for big buildings and cheating tie red
men.
What a commentary, forcibe exposition of q
grand truth, is all this nauaton Of The Indian for
his nomadlc and dangerous life For eight
centuries the great lakes nave been Ills
miiest0nes; the long mountain ranges and dazzling
peaks his gravestones and columns; the temperate
Zone his Broadway and the forest his Fifth avenue:
the mighty vault OF the heavens ms God the waters
his flock OF angels and the setting sun mis- grave.
The attributes OF his nature have Deen Influenced by
planetary systems, by stars and showers; ours by
the
PERPLExING HINUTIE
Of paltry things and belitting asperities. Society
with him is q United brotherhood and the vast
earth; with us, a house divided against ITSELF and
purchased corner lots aud choice parcels or ground,
price $4,000 1t is in such consideration OF the
Indian alone that we can understand him and his
anomalous procllvities. His life teaches worlds OF
wisdom, and from 1t we, IN our day and enhghten
ment can deduee the strange equation representing
that barbarsm and civilization still dwell together
on this Continent But the parity OF the equation Is
disturbed when we remember the indian wars, tile
conflict Of the musket and tomahawk
TIE RED MANS CORPSE AND THE WHITE MANS
SCALP.
And will these things continue we are forced TO
inquire? NO; the records prove not The red man
is becoming eXQnct his existence wifi soon be IN
the eventual past. Millions WHO peopled our soil
when Columbus brought the canvas OF Europe 10
shores and colonzed the same America that moves
friendly TO all, afraid Of none, have now eva
po aIed. But 100000 Indians remain on
American soll-the remnant Of lerocious
tribes that once absorbed the Caucasian and flied
the valley with white blood and wnitened the
prares Win European bones. This is indeed sad
but retributive civilization; and perhaps Buckle
would not nave exulted at the decay OF barbarisni,
and other historians leave pages OF bitter injustice
toward the Indian If they knew the horrors, the
agressions, and the arbitrary and strange aespotsm
vi the white man.
Men are the same the world over. Kindness and
charity-above all, justice-make opposites cohere
This attribute would have united the fate OF the red
man to The destiny Of the white man. But
EIGHT CENTURIES
have been thirty generations Of cruelty toward the
Indian, and the Indian never forgets. Around the
camp fres the Oldest warrior rectes the traditions
OF medieval times; he recounts the ierrors OF the
bullet and the boarding pike: he tells how squaws
have been murdered, how the young chief has been
torn IRON ms trpe ana shot Ivy the invader. This
savage, YET Iathiui history has multiplied revenge
and today the Indians blood is sanguinary
by the fndlscriminating influences OF those
long, long years OF unchristian revolving
cruelty, and now the 100000 that remain know
their fate-it Is bottomless extermination. Is it
strange they want 10 better their condition? Is IL
charity means justice?
HUMANITY SAYS YES.
Certainly when we see an aged cripple totter
inr The prave we arrest hlS fnnLstnns and