The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-08-10

have offended our Great Father who has hid hi.
face from N. Punishment for the gathered
offences of ages is upon US. A trying period in
our history is beginning. Dark and thrsateuinp
will it continue to hang over you. Hardshipe
trials and disappointments will come upon Won.
as the north wind upon the tender child. II
will seem as if the Sun, our father, had with.
drawn himself from aad turned all uatura
against You. But I beseech you do not fail to
call upon Him, and in the midst of all your
troubles have faith and hope. The wrath of our
Father must DO appessed, and have called Won
together to tell you my determination had a
vision spake with the angels. am going to
cur Father to plead for you. cannot take th,s
vulgar body into the presence of the Sun, nor
can make the speed ny mission demands. I
shall leave it on the field Of battle. shall fall.
but shall not perish. ] will rise like the bird.
I will speed like wind. I will hasten on NV
journey that the sooner relief may come to you.
Ny coming will not be long. Your fires shall
not 60 out ere return Pluck up q tree and
insert it in your midst. I promise that its roots
shall not wither nor is roots dry until am
with you again, and let t teach you that though
your fortunes are now reversed, with my coming
they shall be restored. Before 60 will lay
out foundations for you. Leave this place Of
pestilenoe and begin n,w and strong cities. Our
Father will be mercifrl. He will give you 70.
lief will come with the white faced armies Of
the Sun. Look for me in the east Set watch
men upon your walls at dawn Of day, that you
may behold the glory of your deliverance and
make ready to receive it. Have faith and hope.
90, but return"
He has gone, and the darkness and clouds like
black night have rested upon US, and all the
misery he prophesied We have endured. 1t has
seemed indeed as if the Great Father had turned
from us, hut still we call upon Him and adore
him. We drink with resignation the cup of
afiiction that shall appease his wrath, The
inlunctions of Prophet and Saviour we have
remembered as good child remembers the in.
structions of his parent The sacred fire has not
gone out by day nor by night The inverted
tree has withered, died and decsyed many times,
but another has always replaced it; that the
lesson it teaches and the hope it inspires may
never DO forgotten. Our old cities have crum.
bled to dust and new ones have arisen upon the
sacred lines marked out by his beloved hands.
Watchmen are ever on the walls at early dawn
to greet our Father and to welcome our deliver.
ance if it came. Many lives have gone out since
the kindlng of the eternal FIRE. Many trees
have fallen into decay. Our new cities have be.
come old and some have crumbled away. Yet
the Waterman has not seen him, still he has not
come. But the journey is long and the wrath
Of the Great Spirit hard to appease. He is pre-.
pairing glorious future for US. Our Montazu.
ma will come. for he has said IT. He will deliver
US with the white faced host. He will return
in glory to reign over US, to restore US and to
make US mighty, prosperous and happy people
forever. We have faith, We have hope. He has
gone, but be will return. The log which We
sit is the remnant Of the last inverted tree. It
has fallen, and 80 it lies, because the hands that
should replace it have mouldered into dust In
yon crumbling, ruined room are yet scattered
the dead Goals Of the sacred fire. Bright as the
face of our Father it glowed for centuries, but
the sad misfortunes which have been destroying
our people since our king lett. fell most disas.
trously upon this city. One by one, in pairs and
by parties the inhabitants were consumed, until
only one remained. To him was entrusted the
sacred fire. Though but child he discharged
we'll the duty devolving upon him. From child.
hood to manhood, from manhood to old age he
watched with jealous care the sacred FIRE.
He watched and hoped, from day to day, till
with bis vital spark the sacred fire expired. And
thus the last of his tribe faithful child Of tho
Sun, believer in his Saviour, he died with faith
with hope. Montazuna will come.
Upon this tradition is founded much of tho
religious belief of the Pueblo Indians From it
radi~te u thousand incredible traditions, and
about which cluster many of the facts in the
history of this singular people.
There Is another tradition connected with
these ruins and generally believed BY the Puo.
blos 1t is long story sEa would weary you
were to try to relate as they tell it, but which
you may tolerate il sufficiently abridge it. It
is concerning "a hugo serpent kept MS sAcred pet
in this Pecos town and fed on the choice lambs
of the flock But it transpired on time that
there was cast to his serpentiue majesty lamb
which was not 80 choite a. might have been, at
which he became greatly enraged and forthwith
left the town, which being calamity he was
pursued, and after much ado with drums, gongs
and shouting was driven back to the town, but
he had been MORALLY offended and refused to
eat though the best the village afforded was
given him. He continued his iustinvs until he