Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-04-21

who had come there to see how Uncle
Sam bought his land. The superinten.
dent had rude table brought out from
Raymond's cabin, and some chair:
and stools for the accommoda.
of his attaches and a few dis
| tlnguished attendants. These seats
were ranged around under the shadow
Of Q gre at spruce tree, in camp-meeting
style, and the crowd of whites and In
dians circled themselves around on the
outside just as an eager, gaping crowd
always does when there is any center oi
| ottraction for their anxious curiosity
| Raymond frisked around and edged
himself in and out Of the crowd with
fearful energy to let the white man see
that he was employed by the govern
ment, and TO impress the Indian with
an idea Of his very great importance
| Otherwise the assembly looked solemn
and serious. All-white and red
seemed TO be impressed with the idea
! that grave and important work was to
be done there that day. The vigilants
have presented just such a scene in Cal
ifornia many time an hour or two be-
fore they swung some horse-thief
! from the limb of a tree. DR.. Dout
acted as a presiding officer for
that molly and incongruOus body,
and he performed his duty with great
dignity and marked ability. It was a
quiet and orderly crowd, however-more
50 than the house of representatives,
either in Washington or Nashville. The
business of the day was begun and pro-
ceeded with in the most orderly manner.
DR.. DOUt went through the form of
making and signing treaty with all
the various tribes present with quiet
system and dispatch. The Tilamooks
were the last tribe called up. Tush-tub
was their chief. He was in the last
stages of consumption, and was brought
into the audience on a rude litter, carried
by his people. In his prime he had
been fine-lOOking man-nOw his ap-
pearance was CHASTITY. There was
nothing of life or manhood about him
but his clear, black eye. that looked to
be as full of life, and vigor, and energy
as if it had been set in the most
stalwart frame. Because of his ILL
ness he had been allowed to rest
in his tent, some distance from
the treaty-grOund, and consequent
Iy had not seen or heard the other chiefs
make and sign their several treaties. A
printed copy of the treaty, intended for
the TilamOOks, was spread out on the
table before Tush-tub. 1t was printed
in large type, on parchment-like paper,
with a printed Y where the Indians
were to sign their names. 1t was an
excellent specimen of government print
ing, as the work was done in Washing
ton in those days. Raymond interpreted
the treaty tO1ush-tub vigorously. He read
it over in English in loud voice, and
then translated into Indian. After do
ing this he made a set speech to Tush-
tub and his tribe, in which he told them
that their "great father,n the President
of the United States, had sent DIR. Dout
to them to do them great kindness; he
loved them and regarded them as his
children, and now he intended to buy
their lands and pay them annually so
much for them; and now all he wanted
them to do was TO come up cheerfully
and freely and sign this treaty, and, by
so doing, they would make their "great
father think great deal of them. A
similar speech had been made to all the
other tribes, but Raymond enlarged on
this one. 1t was his last for the day. In
closing, he gave afourth-of-Ju uly descrip-
ton of the wealth, and power, and mag
nitude of the United States, and told
them in the most exaggerated manner Of
the great progress and growth of the
white man over what was but a short
time sgO a wilderness, inhabited by the
fierce and savage red man. Tush-tub
most attentively. He had been
half reclining while Raymond was talk
ing. He spoke word or two to his peo-
pie, and they raised him at once into a
sitting posture. His appearance COM
perfect silence in that incon-
gruous assembly. He cast his ewes
around the crowd, and, rest
ing them upon DR.. Dout, asked him in |
q clear, but weak voice if this was all
be had to say. The doctor replied, in a 1
courteous and dignified manner, that
il was, and said he now wanted to hear
from the chief of the Tilamooks, a tribe |
which had once counted its warriors by
the thousand, and had extended its do |
for many miles down the coast
Of that great ocean. Tush-tub then
that his lungs were weak, and
if those present desired to hear him
they must preserve silence. He spoke !
Tor fully an hour. No one disturbed him
In any manner. 1t is altogether impos- I
sible to give anything like a synopsis of |
his speech. His ideas and language
were both new and startling to that au- |
lience. He gave his views of a treaty !
said it was q contract which required |
at least two consenting parties to per- |
feet it-and that it was a great perver- |
sion of language to call that instrument
before him a treaty. He denounced 1t |
as an oppressive order issued by strong
nation to one that WIS weak and helpless, |
them in their last DAYS
Of decay to leave and give up their |
homes and abandon their manhood. |
He prayed that his arm might wither |
If he ever raised it to sign such an in- |
and if any one of his tribe |
should ever ask him to do so he hoped |
be would swallow his tongue in the eff /
fort. He said if the interpreter told the /
truth and the President of the United /
States really wanted to do them a kind \
ness, he could find no better mode of |
doing it than to take all his people, and !
houses, and mills, and steamboats,, and /
of every kind, out of the 4
country at once. Then the red men
would re-people and inhabit their cOun-
Try in peace. He said fifty years ago
bis own tribe numbered more than five |
thousand, now they could not count |
iftyi All of them had been killed and |
carried away by vices contracted in their
with the white man. He
had never known one Of his people to
earn virtue from the white man, but |
hey all eagerly adopted his vices.
This was because the Indians mind |
was untutored, and he had no wish, in
or. desire to be instructed in
The ways of civilization. 1t was impos-
3ible to force him to accept tkis instruc-
lion, and the white man knew this
we'll. Hence he insisted that it was
erael cowardice to drive his weak peO-
pie from their homes for a purpose that
could not and would not be accom-
Dlished. And he charged, with the Bit
.erest logic, that the superintendent and
all those who supported him in his
talk, " were guilty of the boldest hy-
DOcrisy when they pretended to be do
ng all this for the good of the red man.
The purpose was plain. A child could