The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-16
THIRD DITION
NEWS FROM THE PLANS.
The General Indian Council.
Important Proceedings.
Exciting Mews from China.
The American Squadron in Battle.
Naval Fight at Corea.
Etc, Etc, ETC., ETC., ETC.. Etc.
The American Squadron in Battle.
Naval Fight at Corea.
ETC., ETC.. ETC.. ETC.. ETC.. Etc.
FROM THE WEST.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.
E1clitsiUelg 10 The EuentTsg Telegraph.
General Indian Council,

E1clusivelv to The Euentng Telegraph.
General Indian Council.
CHICAGO, June 16.-The special correspon-
dert of the Times reports from Okmulgee, In-
dian Territory, June 6, the assembling of the
General Council of Indian Nations, to consider
the proposed constitution. Enoch Hoag Indian
superintendent presided. Soon after assem-
bling General Sherman, General Marcy, Colo
mel Mccoy, and Colonel Tourtelotte were intro
duced and received with special honors.
In response to the request of delegate Gene
raj Sherman mad a brief address.
He complimented the delegates on their intel
ligence and skill in debate, which had been ex-
hibited in previous councils. He described
the unsafe condition of the Arrapahoes,
Apaches, Cheyennes, Camanches, and other un-
civilized tribes. They were in the way of the great
thoroughfare leading from the Mississippi to the
Pacific shore, and in their wanderings they fire.
quently come into collision with parties of Ame-
rican people. His hearers clearly understood
how idle it was for any power to seek to stand
in the way of the expansion and growth of the
white race.
Their brethren had been crowded out of one
State after another-the Seminoles from
Florida, the Cherokees from Georgia, the
Shawnees, Osages, aud Wyandottes from Kansas
and still the American people, aided with
constant accessons of population from all parts
of the world, were yet spreading out and forever
demanding fresh territory in which to found
homes.
The delegates he was addressing represented
tribes who had country secured to them by
treaties with the United States. 1t was as fair
and as fine country as the foot of man ever
trod. The population of that Territory did not
exceed sixty thousand persons, and it was fully
aNf IN, hpnd Ia
tion of sixty millions
1t was finer country than Kansas, finer
country than Nebraska 1t was equal in fer
tility to Illinois. The speaker believed in the
white race. He knew the American people
were aggressive, and perhaps violent, but be
would have it understood they vipdlcated their
aggressiveness by their increasing industry and
energy, and the careful ends to which they
applied all they acquired. He could see no
reason why the Indians should not be the
equal of the white man. His body was equally
robust and his brain as large.
Now, eaid the General what are you going to
do? You are met in council to adopt constitution,
frame laws for the government of your territory,
and harmonize your various tribes under one
confederation. You cannot do this without
harmony, without mutual concession, and a will
lingness to yield corresponding benefit for
every advantage that is conceded to you. You
caunot all be Greeks, Choctaws, or Cherokees.
Each must sacrifice something for the benefit of
the whole, and the additional security they
would gain by the confederation Of their whole
number would pay them ten-fold for whatever
concession they might be called upon to
make.
In honor of the social visits of these dstin-
guished white brethren, the council did not
init he al IN
but spent the remainder of the afternoon in
pleasant conversation, in which Mr.. William
Ross, "Cherokee," Coleman Cole, "Choctaw,"
Pleasant Porter, ''Muskakee," aud Joseph P.
Folsom, Choctaw, bore prominent part.
General Sherman and party left for Fort Glib
| son. The business session proper opened to-
| day. The delegates showed much ability aud
familiarity with parliamentary laws governing
| legislative bodies.
| The chairman, ia his remarks favoriug har-
many and united action, said a vast influence,
| adverse to the interests of their people, was at
| work in Washington and elsewhere. Railroad
| corporations, the moneyed monopolies, were
| casting covetous glance upon that rich and
beautiful territory, aud If by want of concert of
action and fair adjustment OF interests they
failed to provide themselves with confede-
rated form of government which should give
| strength and stability to their political
and social institutions, the speaker would warn
| them that they were placing themselves in
| great danger In addition TO the powerful
| capital, the whole rude border element was
striving to crowd them out, and already their
northern border was oyerrun by INSCRIPTIONS
| intruders He would remind them that in
union there was strength, and the utmost need
| existed for their urging upon their people to
take prompt action In ratifying constitution
which should bind their social fabric together
and give strength aud harnony to their rela .
tions as an united people.