Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-24
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The New York Sun, under the nozza,at
de plume of ''0ur Later Franklin, - ha,
been favoring the nomination of thai
great and truly good man,n Hon. Hor.
ace Greeley, by the Republican Presi-
DENTAL ConyeAtion. Now we see the
Chicago Republican coming out with the
following highly readable notice of the
Chappaqua farmer, which is evidently
intended to make him a specially in the
memories of the present and rising gener-
stiop. The Republican says: Probably
hist ry records no more touching specta-
Gle than that presented last week at Osh-
kosh, whittier the great and good Mr..
Greeley had gone, not to have "fun with
the boys" but to instruct Lo, the poor
savage, whose untutored mind has not as
yet taken cognizance of subsoil top dress
ing and silk bearing Merino sheep, from
whose fleece Ia woven checked linseya
woolsey. so" has not figured to advan-
tage in our national annals. To
be sure Penn benevolently got
ahead of him by barter
ing box of red waters and a baby-jdmp-
er for the city of Philadelphia, and, as
Logan, he was made to exclaim, "Why
is this thus9" or words TO that effect.
But never has poet sung or painter
skeicNed such scene as that at Oshkosh,
Wise Insin. In the center foreground
was Horace Greeley, better known as
Bald Head Muck, addressing the chiefs
of the 0neidas, who squatted around him
on their hams, occasionally interjecting
full-sized "Ughi" Upon their untutor-
ed minds he impressed the fact that
canvas back ducks were preferable, if
cultivated for sail, and that Gitche Mani
tou the mighty, bending from the king
dom of Keewsydin, commanded them to
pawn their scslps and wampum for Hoe
cylinders, and to move West, regardless
of expense and the Pacific ocean.
Whereupon Puking Polecat and Cloudy
Bullfrog- -wiIh-a- Hog-Eye grunted equivo-
cal applause, and felicitated themselves
that the harvest was past, the summer
was ended, and their crops were saved.
Breaihes there man with soul so dead,
who never to himself hath said, ''This is
q put-up job on the poor Indian, designed
TO expedite his steerage passage to the
II. II. G. g of his forefathers 1t is well
known that IN winter time, when he can
no longer hunt the angleworm to his
native lair, nor snare the bounding bug,
the Pi Ute, without prejudice of age or
sex, falls an easy prey to the troopers of
the Z. s. A. Ia summer time, however,
being privileged to take up the shovel and
the hoe, he has heretofore contriyed to
exc out a scaniy subsistence. The
American Government has laid cunning
snare for him. Greeley, sachem of
Chappaqua, has been sent to him
Y
In all h-s wardrobe csrelessness and love-"
To lure him into experiments the end
whereof is death. The President is at
last convinced thst one Chivington mas
sacre costs more and effects less than the
circulation of hundred copies of Mr..
Greeley's commedietta on Farming"
The red man of the forest is doomed.
ULscathed by Saxon sword or whisky,
spared the bullet and the smallpox, he is |
destined to fall before the insidious as
sault of the Cincinnatus of Chappsqua.
When the reservations are bowling wastes,
wherein the cicada whistles ironically |
over the bones of the noble savage who |
starved at the handles of his six ply |
steam plow-when the last of the Moch-
leans snail have died in the last ditch,
vainly striving to make the Mississippi |
irrigste the Rocky Mountains and turn
their quartoze SUBMITS into "AlluVial
the ultimate friend of the |
pale faces, whose door (like Deacon |
Bross' MOUTH was never shut shall have |
been hashed by his own combined reaper |
and scalping knife, then (and not til |
them will the American Indian realize |
that the guile of the Long-knives has
ruined him, and that the words of the |
Chappaqusu sycamore were sharp as
swords and deadly with deceit.