Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-09-10

WHY did You go into this cruel WARP why
/ did Won advise it? You are responsible for the
/ loss thar has fallen upon u.s.
This is our sad history At the close Of the
| war the president said to us:
| "Hou rejected my advice, YOU refused to ac-
/ cept peace, YOU fought against me, and are con-
! qucred; nevertheless, | will not lprSake YOU,
/ but viii subsst you tin you can subsist your
/ selves"
When we were removed here the president
] fulfilled these promises clothed my children,
| Notwithstanding my disobelieuCe; and | am
now convinced oil the folly of q small tribe 70
| ing to war against SO powerful an enemy NY
own sad experience induces me TO advise the
principal chiefs Of the kJ)was, 10 STOP before
your young men are killed, and their survivors
! hold YOU in repr1lch. know the war path is
| not q good path, bat the longer you walk in the
| peace path the brighter it becomes. Your young
| men, women and children will be satisfied, yOur
| mothers, children and friends can be buried in
! peace. You must be friends with every nation;
| spill no blood | talk for the benefit OF your
children and my children, to come after us. The
| president Of the United States is now waiting
| to hear your choice. Go 10 him with your
| wants, and his door is open to receive you, not
| only the president, bur the Maker above, who
| has us under his protection and care. We want
| you to take good care, and consider well the
! road YOU choose. Let us all unite on one road,
| as the waters Of these several streams unite to
form the Washita. 1t makes a strong stream:
! we cannot change its course.
| And let me tell YOU, if all the Indian tribes
| combined were to declare war against the
| United States, it would be utterly useless; they
| would only equal in numbers the people Of one
| state The United States is rapidly advancing
| in population, and during its advancement it
| watches every violation OF Indian treaties, as an
| excuse for taking additional territory.
| Locate yourselves in one place, aud commence
| with your civilized brothers. and if yon remain
at peace the president will subsist You until you
| become working people raise YOUR own sub
| slStnnpp and kill and if
| hunt the buffalo you can do it in peace. When
| YOU do this, and live in your own houses and
| plant your own corn, then the president will
| remove the soldiers from your territory. few
years ago there was Il settlement beyond that
| hill (FOrt CObb), and the United States located
troops there tee that treaties were not violated
and when they commenced farming the soldiers
were taken away.
But while you continue to 20 on the war path
| there is no prospect of the soldiers being re-
moved. When | hrSt came to this country
| had nothing, save what the government gave
| me, an axe and Il hoe; that was my beginning.
| NV young men can now read and write aud do
| good work at farming. Some of my people have
| large stores, also we have native mechanics and
| carpenters. Now, my brothers, If you lived
| near me, aud were destitute, my young men
| would help you. don't want much help from
| the president now we raise enough corn and
! cattle for our own uses. All the aid now re-
| quire is to educate our childlen. And we also
| look TO our white brothers to propagate the
| gospel among us; all other wants are embraced
! in our treaty. You are better off to commence
| than was. When came to this country you
| had horses; | had none; aud If you would turn
| your attention to farming YOU could soon be
! better off than you are now. In few years
| you would have plenty, the results of your own
| industry. | want YOU now, before your proper
| ty is placed in another mans hands, while you
| have home, to decide upon this good road and
| accept the situation There are bad men in any
| nation. Some crimes are committed on the
| border, and perhaps many times crimes may
| have been wrOngiuliy charged upon the hlowaS.
! You have Il bad reputation, and these crimes
| are charged upon you. Now, my friends, let
| me suggest that ii you have any property in
| your possession belonging to the United States,
| keep it; do not dispose Of it until You make
peace with the presidents then return 1t, and all
| private property, and let the United states do
| the same by you. Preliminary to this go to the
| president and ask his forgiveness, and he will
| grant it. His door is always open to receive
| his red children. Ii you conclude to make peace
| send your delegation to Washington. Select
some man to 90 with you, and he will meet you:
| Fearing your threatened destruc ton, came all
| this distance to see you. Not finding you here
[ have waited this long and sent after you. L
have now told you how to get out of the trouble,
and am about through. We are sons of one
man, and all descended from the same womb.
II you make any reply will take it home with
me.
LONE VOLTS REPLY.
eve are here, Que color red flesh, and want
to make the white path My brothers are max
ing the white path. | put myself with you to
make this white path. Our great father called
| US here to make peace, and wants us to take the
| white road Here we are all red brothers to-
| gether, and the road you take, we fake. Ii the
| whites will take pity on US, we will take his road d.
| Here are many OF my brothers who have taken
! the white path, and l take it the same as my
| brothers. The head leaders of the war party
are here, Comanches and others. Let them put
| out their war pipe and will mine. II all my
| brothers here of every tribe Will put out their
| pipes let me see them in houses then | will
put mine out. When these other Indians do
| anything wrong they charge upon the hIowaS,
| but the KiOwaS are not alone IN all these depre-
| dations; others are implicated with them l
| will listen to whatever my great father at Wash
| ington says. Nobody here will say anything
| against him; he calls us his children; have
| already adopted some of their foolish ways, but
| now want to be safe, ard want my children to
| be safe. Here is our land-a great big tract of
| land; nothing bad about it; great good white
| road already made through it.
Iron Jacket (Apache) said: | was here to a
| council year ago; great many chiefs are here
| now to make treaty; who IS here 70 give me
| the Wampum2 | come Hast because | am OF q
| very small tribe; we represent many tribes; we
| arc we'll surrounded; we are the same as prison.
| ers and therefore want to make good path;
| if you tell me the truth and keep telling tue
| truth after while will make friends with you.
II
aud Kicking Bird and other kjOwas came to my
tent for dinner, and seeming DESTROYS to hear
| something from me, | referred them 10 my visit
| al their camps near the west end of the Wachita
| mountains, last winter, accompanied oy aSehb
| Richards and my aged friend Joseph ID. Hoag,
member of the executive committee, whom they
| now readily recognized; the warm reception
| they had given us (Lone Wolf giving us the eX-
| elusive use of his own lodge during our two
| nights stay with them); how we had visited
| from l.Lfr to tArlfr
| feet safety without the protection OF any militia
| ny guard. | remembered the large number oil
chiefs assembled on the council ground prepared
| by themselves to hear our talk. remembered
well their complaints made at that time, both in
regard to the arrest Of their chiefs and the close
proximity Of their agency to Fort Sill, and the
sentence pronounced against Big Bow ana
Others for depredatiOnS then recently com
mited; that Big Bow hal asked me
to intercede in his behalf, to restore him
| in favor with his agent. | remembered we'll
| their promises at that time to call in their young
warriors then on the war path and commit no
| more depredatiOnS; that had told them at that
| council how they could get Fort Sill removed
| from their reservation; commit no more depre-
dations, 90 no more on the war path, live at
peace among themselves, with other Indian
tribes aud with the whites, and their great
father would soon become convinced of the use
lessness of Fort Sill and the soldiers would be
removed; that they had promised to accept my
advice, and call in their young men from the
war path; that Lone Wolf had promised to
meet me at his agency, and give me definite
answer to my proposition-lor some OF his chiefs
to visit Washington that waited the appoint
ed time, and longer; but he didn'tcOme. LLone
Wolf here interrupted by saying that he did
come, but | was gone That | was not dis
posed to throw away the Kiowas, because he did
not come, but held fast TO their good talk in
council, and carried it to their friends; bad told
them that the Kiowas were peaceabe; they had
promised me not to 20 on the wath path That in
accordance with their wishes had carried their
request for the removal of their agency irom
Fort Sill, and made known their wishes for the
return of Santauta and Big Tree. All these
things were being considered by their friends,
but before any decision from Washington could
be obtained they, the Kiowas, had again COM
menced dcpredating and raiding, aud had con-
tinued il up TO this time; that the government
had been slow to send soldiers among them
leaving their friends to make peace between
them and the whites; that we had stood between
them and the military for a long time, but the
time would come when their great father SO
long patent, would say to us, their friends
stand off, and the military would swarm upon
them in irresistible numbers; we were unwilling
to abandon them, and would not do so uni
compelled to, but the time would come, and
that soon unless they quit raiding, left the wal
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