Daily Republican., 1883-09-22

TON, DEL, AT 1880 A. y
SEPTEMBER 10, 1883.
jeremiah, 18th chapter, 1st to 2n
verses: The word which came uni
Jeremiah from the Lord in the days {
,jchOiakim, the son of Josiah, King I
Judah, say ing, Go unto the house Of til
Rechabitcs and speak unto them an
bring them into the house of the Lord
Keokuk Tribe, No 3, Improved o.
der of Red Men of Wilmington, Del
The same Great Spirit which led th
Rechabites into the house OF the Lor
in the days of Jehoiakin has, we trust
brought you hither this morning, t
hear his word. Your motto, Free
dom, Friendship, and Charity" is
beautiful trinity embodying most ex
celIent principles. May the Son of Go
max" you free indeed, be friend /
you "who sticketh closer than broth
er" and love you with a never. failin
charity
After the battle of Charchemish, OF
the Euphrat-s, in which Nsbuchadne2
zer, King of Babylon, was victorious,h h
came into Palestine and found the Kin,
of Israel quite defenseless. Besieginj
Jerusalem for short time, Ne cnteret
the city, took .Tehoiakim prisoner an,
bound him with fetters, to carry him tt
Babylon. But soon changing his pur
pose, re-ipstated him perhaps because
of the fidelity of his father. Josiah. Je
hoakim continued to reign as King o
judah for three years, but at the end o
that time rebelled against the King o
Babylon. Though Ncbuchadntzze
WAS not able at this time to go VI
against him. the Chaldeans, Syrians,
Muabites and the children Of AmmoI
were sent. When these appeared tn.
people fed for refuge within the wall,
Of the city. With them the Rechabi'es
a tribe descended from the Kenites, tbt
children of Hobab, the brother in-law
of Moses, entered and on a plot o
ground within the walls encamped.
There in the midst of a people who
had f,rsakcn God, and who were in
du'ging in all possible extravaganza
and intemperance, the Rechabi'es
Dbeyed the voice of Jonadah, and lived
in such simplicity and uprightness tha,
jeremiah brongh' them into the house
Of the Lord, placed pots fall of wine be.
fore them, gave them cups and told
them to drink. But" they said, tive
will drink no wine for Jonadab, the
son of Rechab, our father, commanded
us saying: "Ye shall drink no wine,
neither ye nor your sons forever. Nei-
her shall ye build house, nor SOW seed,
nor plant VINEYARD, nor have any, but
al your days ye shall dwell in tents
hat We may live many days in the land
where you he strangers. There was
rec wine and an invitation to drink,
,ut they kept the law Of their father
What rehn's" to Gods people! What
/ lesson for all There is n singular
association of this people with the ls-
'aelites. They gave TO Moses a wife,
They met him in the wilderness rs he
vas leading the children of Israel out
If Egypt.
Their black tents are seen ever and
mon near the camp of Israel all along
he journey. They enter Canaan with
hem and watched their tiocks in the
,asture lands Of Palestine from the
ime Of Joshua until the prophesying
# jeremiah.
''They g were not of he stock of Jacob,
'ut soiourned with Israel -
Types of the children of God, pilgrims
n earth, looking for heaven as their
ome, having little to lose so that los
ng times cost them little alarm. They
nvied no one and, living on the bare
eCessities of life, no one envied them.
So 1t was with the red man, which
our tribe represents. His history is
with ours. No historian can
i've to the world a record of our origin
8 a people and nation, a record of our
rails and triumphs without associa-
ing with us the red man)of the forest.
When our fathers landed on Plymouth
Jock he was there ; when they pene-
'ated the wilderness he WIS there
yhen they climbed the mountain
lopes he was there.
When they declared war he was on
ne field. While we boast of our Wash
lgton, Warren, Montgomery and Nor
An, we can never forget Black Hawk,
nd White Eyes Speckled Snake, Red
acket, Chiefs Of great ability. True
ley were not always friendly to the
ale faces, yet doubtless it was more
wing to the deceptiOns practiced upon
lem, and the fire water introduced
mong t en-, than any disposition in
le Indian to injure them Notwith-
anding the white man has destroyed
is hunting ground, has taken without
his land and his living,
st it is said the luakers, a people al
ays true them, never lost drop of
Q0d BY Indian cruelty.
Their ,..;.."uage, by which you kindle
I'd quenchy four council fires has !
zen en ba ed in the spices Of his
ry. It has given names to our mouu-
ins, as the Adirondack and Alleghe-
=; to our rivers, as the Mississippi and
issouri; to our States, as Kansas and
entucky; to our lakes, as the Win
pissogee and the famous Chautauqua;
"a more, tho first Bible in any Ian
lage ever printed in British America
as in the Indian tongue.
Their traditions are sung by our
,ets, their blood flows in the vel ns of
me of our best families, aud among
10 orders for the good of mankind, to
hich christianity has given birth, is
,ur own, and may it keep alive the
nod deeds Of the Red Men so long AZ
lere is a sick man to be attended, or a
idow or orphan to be comforted.
The Rechabites preserved separate
istence by refusing u sedentary life,
their long association
ith the lsraelites, the stronger and
ore favored people. So :he Indians,
though associated to some extent with
IL white race, for three hundred years
I'VE preserved separate existence, and
this day prefer to follow the hunt,
fusng 10 build houses or to live in
ties. When America received her
rst settlers some were Spaniards, some
rench, some Swede, some German,
,me Irish and some English.
Time has past and this nation Is only /
the one hundred and seventh year of
= independence. The children of
lose who came to this country one
lndred years ago from different ma
Dns are one to-day. They dress alike,
ok alike, think alike and talk alike.
As the waters wrung from the
ouds by the mountains east and