Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-03

"Mr. President" said the interpreter.
"the chiefs would be glad TO hear YOU talk"
10 which Lincoln intimated that he would
endeavor to do 80.
"My red brethren" said Lincoln, fare an.
xious to be prosperous and have horses aud
carriages like the pale faces. propose to
tell them how they may get them"
AT this the dusky men were all attention,
and manifested their satisfaction by the us.
ual Indian cultural sounds.
The plan is n simple one" said the Pres
ident, as tho interpreter turned his words into
the tongue Of the red men. Their curiosity
was fully aroused. Even the spectators
locked inquiringly at Lincoln, to know how
he was going to provide horses and carriages
for those who thus blunty asked for them.
You all have land" said Lincoln. ave
will furnish you with agricultural implements,
with which you will turn up the soil, by hand
1t you have not the means 10 buy an OK,
but | think with the aid which you receive
from the Government, you might at least
purchase one OK to do the blowing for sew.
eral. You will plant corn, wheat, and po-
tatoes, and with the money for which you
will sell these you will DO able each to buy
an OK for himself at the end of the first year.
AT the end of the second year, you will each
be able to buy perhaps two oxen aud some
sheep and pigs. At the end of the third,
you will probably be IN condition to buy
horse, and in the course OF few years you
will thus be the possessor Of horses and car
riages like ourselves"
This plan for becoming proprietor Of
horses and carriages was not reished, for il
meant work, and the faces Of the Indians
bore a disappointed expression as the Presi.
dent unfoldod it.
81 do not know any other way to get these
things" added Lincoln. ut is the plan we
have pursued---at least those of us who have
them. You cannot pick them of the trees,
and they do not fall from the clouds"
Had it not been for the respect which they
owed to the speaker as the Great Father,
it was plain that they would have exclaimed
against his words with the untutored energy
of their Indian nature. As he was we'll &C.
quainted with that nature, having served as
captain in the Tippecanoe war and spent his
early life on the frontier, suspicion entered
my mind that he was blending with the adj
vice little chatting To change the sub.
ject and restore them to good humor, he re-
quested one of the attendants to roll up a
large globe of tie world which stood in q
corner on three-legged support on wheels
The President placed his hand on the globe
and turned it round, saying:
ave pale faces believe the world is round
like this"
At this point Lincoln caught the inquiring
eyes of the Indians fastened like note Of
interrogation on the legs Of the globe.
Without the legs" continued Lincoln, in
answer to the mute interrogation, with a
twinkle in his eye. 1--WE pale faces can get
into big canoe, showed by steam,-hcre, for
instance, at Washington, or Baltimore near
by,-go round the world, and come back to
the place from which We started"
With due respect to the Great Father,
they evidently thought, to give it mild
term, that he was given to exaggeratiou.
He started off again, to tell about the North
Pole, the torrid zone, the length and breadth
of the United States, aud how long it would
take man to walk from one end Of it to the
other, in which he got somewhat entangled
then seeing a woll.known man Of science on
his right, Lincoln placed his hand non his
shoulder, gently urged him forward to a
position in front of the Indians, to whom he
said
"But here is one of our learned men, who
will tell you all about it,"
Saying this, Lincoln bowed aud withdrew,
aud the savant, taken by surprise, cndeavored
to extricate himself from the difficulty as
best he could, by continuing the theme where
the president left off.
One sombrc event followed the Indian re
ception. Big Wolf who had expressed the
desire to have sausages like white men, sat
isfied his appetite in the hotel on this food
without stint, and it was this product of our
civilization which was his bane. Ia word
sausage killed him.-AiJert Rhodes IN 81
Nicholas.
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