The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-06-24
INDIAN AFFAIRS.
The Recent Council at Okamu,g gee
Further Particulars.

Inc Recent Council at Okamuis gee
Further Particulars.
OKAMULGEE, Indian Territory, June
10, via Chicago, June 23.-The Times
special correspondent furnishes further
particulars Of the great Indian Council.
Much uneasiness is felt by many here
lest the President should exercise his
constitutional right appointing men
from the United States to the higher
Offices To do so would create wide
spread dissatisfaction. There are men
in the territory who are unquestionably
competent to exercise the functions of
selfgovernment, and as the populace
are extremely sensitive at anything
that looks like subordination of the in
terests of the Indian to those Of the
whites, this exercise of the appointing
power at Washington could not fail to
be productive OF very mischevious re-
suits Further, the delicate position in
which the civilized nations are placed
in reference to their wild brothers, rem
ders additional guarantees of their Sc
cure and permanent occupancy Of this
territory absolutely necessary. Here
are a number of warlike chiefs from
the Cheyenne, the Arapho, the Ceddo
and other tribes These painted
brethren have been cordially received
at the great council fire, and the differ
ence vividly depicted to them of the two
roads that lay before them to pursue.
The white path OF peace leads to secure
havens, benign treatment from their
Great Father, and all the comforts en-
loved by their civilized brethern, while
the red path will lead to their ultimate
determination, andl life o. poverty and
privation while they are permitted to
roam the plains. These vital matters
have been deliberated upon by these
Chiefs, and their utterances are all EN-
phatically and unvaryingly for peace
with the white man, and a life OF pro
gression and useful industry. But they
want permanent homes guaranteed
them. In their replies to the tiorid ora
tory which points 10 their absorbed at
tentiou all the millenial blessings
that attend life of peaceful .pur-
suit, they first ask, Can permanent
honors be guaranteed them?' All
tell of spolation by the frontier
men. The Usage chiefs wax eloquent
over the wrongs they have suffered. \
magnificent domain in Southern Kan
sas, secured 10 them by a solemn treaty
with the Uuited States, was first over
run bv thousands of settlers, their stock
driven off and their corn gathered, and
they finally were compelled to give
wav as the weaker of the two op-
posing forces, which when brought into
iuxtaposition cannot exist. They now
ask that homes be given TO them
against the encroachments Of white
men before they will be willing to lay
aside their blankets and their war
paint, and spend their money in open
ing farms and procuring stock. The
committee TO whom was referred the
dutv Of considering the best course to
be pursued, to secure as soon as ptac-
ticable the establishment of the govern
ment proposed under the Constitution,
submitted in December, 1870, presented
their report this morning. 1t was read
one time and interpreted. The report
proposes that inasmuch as the Consti-
tuition in the opinion OF the General
Council. is not inconsistent with the
rights and privileges and treat o6lIga-
tions of the Indian country, and secures
N them the great and inestimable right
Of self government; and inasmuch as
the circumstances growing out of the
treaty of 1866 impose upon them the
necessitv OF acceding to some form OF
general government for this Territory
resolve, therefore, that the action OF the
General Council in December, 1870,
which framed and submitted q
Constitution to the several nations
represented in said Council Is hereby
reaffirmed. Provision is further made
for creating Provisional Government,
and the election OF a Governor and
other officers whose duties shall be such
as are prescribed by the Constitution
This report was followed by ProPos'-
tom of Mr.. Brown, the Seminole dele
cate to amend the Constitution so as TO
Droyide for an equal representation IN
The Senate Of the Cherokee, Creek
Cboc,ow, Chickasaw and Seminole
nations. This proposition has been
earnestly discussed for several DAYS
". P. Ross, the Cherokee Chief object,
ed to it on the ground that 1t would
destroy the principle Of representation o.
according to the population provided Tor
in the Constitution, and would deprive
The Ottauas and the confederate Peorlas'
Ouapamas, Senecas, Wyandottes, Shaw :,
pees and Osages, the small tribes, o.
EQUITABLE representation In the SENATE,
He further argued that inasmuch as the
Constitution had already been accepted
by the Creeks, it would endanger the
Confederation TO now make an amend
meut This view is now held oy 'he
ablest Chiefs. The further consldefa'
tion was postponed until Monday I'm
INDIANA.