, 1875-04-12

IN Amcflca. lit where IT, .n"s iAouSa 11s.'''a
In 1903, for el5oaouoo,, Whist Grent britain
had not CONQUERED from It. AND Narolean tho
Li!tlo abandoned. .alc1ieo without Tho foFco to
pratect Maximilian, tho Emperor. that ho nm. J..
may be nskcl in view OF recent cvnnts, II Frames
| has any poxcr huywtefo. | A'nde 'n,s 40
much 70 tlie humiliation attendant upon the ro-
Of allowing its coumunos to destroy tue monu:.
ncnts to iss glorious dead ; M H. not satisfied
viii, lhc .,cstitullon OF present glory, II would
r1tinguish every momonto OF tho glory Of ttH
past. 1t w.s charaeterss.lq. OF tho Froncn.
country they conld: 10 rnako thom do al TITO
fighting against other pooplo who took land only
for Immediate wante. For, whtlas ti.is tamo
Frontonse, Governor donc,a! Of c:',; ;',;
s....'ss s rs' in ''"w :Ss ws. sss ho his s:
ing out eruissAries of ~ entirely
different character in tho East. Etolds Tovo dos
o3ased aud buildings conilarrhtrd. aud theto vas
rearcs earthstono II Now Ens,ana a ond ma chil.
dre,.. Aud sl,ore Ia not Ncw Englantlor within
tho sound OF my voico who cahuot repeal some
wrongs Inflicted upou ls ancestors. by Indians
atlmu!ated BY Fousenacs ro"aTns ipa su'
,ifity, tho au4lEs Ncto Tho most numerous.
Theao barLarltics coni,i not 10 Justified by wasH
bosween Frnncs and England; nor by my do
sire OF tho New Ens'anlers 70 o1teaa @ theif I ter-
Englantlers cano hero with no particular love 9!
ll,etr mother country. and the French could
nasiiy haYo mado friends Of them. They
fed TO AnloricA from religious intolerance.
wero mailing no efforts to extcnd thon,. Tho
Frcncll wero having tho territorial extensions
nl1 their own way. Tho Pilgrims and pnrtans,
busy In perAecuttng Quakers, hanging witches,
Sabbath. hid not got above sit'o-watsr vhon. tho
Frcach wero RECALLING themselves With tho wl,to'
iall md front OF Lnko Superior, atiu getting
themselves rich with thu fur traffic. Bat tho
fro.,ch we1e de:eiuio to drive the Enal.sl,
tho alliance Of tho Indlans for tllia purpose.
They knew that Eheravor tho English won:
.l,eY wont to n.av.. Thc7 know that JOHNNY
Ball hal foot OF immense sz", md that 1t was
ono OF hin characteristics. when lo oncc got it
down, mover to tatiu it M: aud rho could have
proved by any Irisatnan then. as vol
a. noH, such was tbs case when ho once
got lils foot upon n.tson's mock. England
cmaneIpatca her backs, but hcr whites ilovor.
Little did tho Frcncl, then think that tho very
colonies that they werc uslnH the 1naiaua to pc
Hecuto were to bs tho only power that ever did
mako john I},l tako his foot from m inch OF
icrritory anywhere.
cago, our present city, aud whv do not talL Of
nloios1l times. taking in tlle Groat FIte. los.
tcu odltnr ssyH ho will Eivn $500 to any Chicago
mAp, woman, or child who can talk ten minutes
without mentioning tho GroRt Fire. How long
l.arn hcon tall;ins2 10 theso impatient onrB |
vii! say,
''LooT At roun o1T7 sEAL!"
T1iero you Eco nn Indian with htB hoy and Gntrnr
facing m approaching resIol uudor full Rail.
Abovo them both ID cradle containing All n-
ton abont tho c;ty zeal, md tho idea was
that when barbaEism Eavo way to civilization,
when tho savagcs rct.catcl boforo commerce.
tho infant In tho cradle was to waka. up; !
si.alt wako him up In duc time-waGa hin'
wake him amdst land spccuatioas, Presidential
Conventions, divorce caseg reformed churctlre.
aud t1ccapitated BiHilops. Meanwhile. as s'tis11
u. Anthony told thIS audionco, few Snndayt
neo, "lIisl,. my babo, lin sill aud slum Detl"
could voto nud Justice to her Requires mo to say
that hlo adornu Ler principles in this rcspeoi
with hnr example.
want to inform you how noar no camo to
being
FRENCH clrr.
Indeed, soma people coni6nd thnt the 0ormsna
mistook It for ono, and captured it abont thu time
they did Paris. We wero essentially French
until the erection OF thu fort III 1901 brought
Emss hare isagp S oaept 81 bs
watomtcs spoke tho Frcnch language quito "a
we'll as tho loas Intelligent inl1ab,sAnts Of Moo
trcnl and Quebec nnw do. Ihoso bo.t posted III
Indian antiquities claim that tho potIawasomts,
u
numerous and rowcrtul tEbo Of Illinois indians
Tor whom orr State was named, also \ Freucll-
Spreading peoplo. Thus, after several years OF
progress we have only 20. back 10 tho Starting
potat once bcing Illinois Indians, and noM
illinois citizens; Uuco rulod by 1ulinn saehsn1s.
and now by sachems oi nnother color, aud soms
Of our Taxpayers think that financially our
present eachoms do not differ materially from
Inllaus vho hsd becn reared In Froach faa,'ics !;
ahd, to keep them from returning to
thor tribes whcn thor nrrircd at maturity. they
wore told that they were dosceudan!s Of Frenen
uobls families who had been put to death in
aomo Of the various revolutions. A Rsve1end
Eteazor Williams, a prominent Protestant cloryy-
man, vho bad boon n long while iu the lndtnn
missionary SERVICE 1t will bc remembered, In hi6
latter DAYS came to the conclusion tina. le was tho
legitimate 500 Of tho gullsotincd Louis XVI, and
Jornyllls, son OF King Lola philippo. csmn out
to soc him, while on visit to tho United 6ta'ea.
A Nsvorend Mr. Ilankon wrote him un la Put
nant'5 MAgnxine IS tho rnhl Lonts XVII. But
King stock took fali about those days. and tls
did not got to Fars to urGo h's pretensons. It was
standing Joke, IN early tneB, wllea ono could
not trace hls patentago, to say. ''Oh, call
him descendant Of tho koyal family Of Ftanca.' u
One ct hess proenderSs to a9,een ttom slo
Of hs osSiu was locked up tn tho hrcast OF al,
ngol Indian Clicf WHO Visited this city. With a
fov f.tends, ho sought nut the CHIEF, and .sked
him II TO could tell ll,m ao0lG Ills cfehcn nu-
cestry. The reply was. "Your father 1ndian,
mother squaw. good Frencht r Ny sqaaw got
nine papoose, a!l French" Thus ondod tue
French nobility In Chicago.
Whom the laas war bo:weon England and
Frtnco broke ont on tho American Conttnout, thn
French llnd extended their power up the OHIO
River ~ far as Fort Du Quesne, now Pittsburg,
and wore contemplating a line OF militia. posta
from that place to I4akc Ontario. Had they
succeeded in this, and hold their, power oil
this continsnt, Chicago would certainly have
been Fronsh city; and, IN Ill prob.
uahsral Assembly bore composed Of dolegsteu
from ualifax: Quebec. Montreal, st, Louis, New
French GeI0ated the British forces ut Fort Du
Quesnc, and left their Commauder.in.C Chtaf,
Gen. Draddock, dead upon the battlefield, tAoy
thought they had iniitotad fatal hlow upot,
Drtla! power In America. but they inflicted a
greater one whom thay loft alive upon tho Bame
Battlefield tho Juvenile George Washington,
destined 10 noon 10 lead to glory tho colouissa,
! spurred to battle bY tho eloquenco Of John
! Adams in Fanou.l Hall mud OF Patrick Horny Ia
tue House Of Burgossps OF Virginia.
Aftor the treaty Of pehce between Great Brit
| ain auu Tinuoo In 1863, by which tho Canntlal
were ceIau to Great vEltaiu our relations to tnt