Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-09

. republican form Of government might say
amen! Recently member of Congress hkened
this fair Nations Capital to q military reserva-
ton. Lincoln said upon one occasion:
Those who deny freedom to others deserve 1t
not for themselves and, under q Just God
cannot long retain it,"
There is no record to identify the one who
offered this toast century and q quarter ago,
but we still recognize his effort, and although
the goal has not yet been attained, and we
still paying taxes without any say as to
what shall become of the money, yet the work
will 60 on. as it should, until the deplorable
disfranchised condition at the very home Of
the Government shall have been corrected.
JUST what the Indian Chief Tammany
- looked like no one seems to know, and
only imag .nary portraits can be made Of him.
Indeed. he may have been a myth, and judging
by the stories that have come down to us
regarding him, it is doubtful If this particular
aborigine ever existed And II he ever was a
real, live Indian at any particular time, In the
early history of America, substantially nothing
of him is known. OF course there might have
been a Delaware Indian chief named Tammany,
or rather Tamanend (meaning the affable),
but he surely never performed some Of the
things we find in print about him.
Many years ego heroic, white marble statue,
symbolic Of Tammany, was placed IN an enor-
nous circular pendiment near the summit Of
old Tammany Hall on the north side Of Four
teenth street between Irving place and Third
avenue. It was IL feet in height, was costumed
as q warrior with his tomahawk In his girdle,
. culver of arrows upon his back, . long.
crooked bow in one hand and the other ex-
tended authoritatively before him. But it is
quite likely there was no attempt made to
portray any particular Indian.
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lean Ethnology published work called Hand
book of American Indians" and If the bureau
had never done anything else, just this one
publication would warrant its establishment
and continued existence. In this work this
sort Of supernatural being Is given As many
different names as Gen. Lafayette was burdened
with. and Heckwelder and other early Indian
authorities are cited and quoted In their article
regarding this kind. gentle. considerate and
sacrificing chief. In noting Heckwelder, the
bureau says:
"An we know. therefore of Tamanend is that
he was an ancient Delaware chief who never
had his equal. He was in the highest degree
endowed with wisdom, virtue, prudence. charity.
affabiity meekness, hospitality; in short, with
every good and noble qualification that .
human being may possess He was supposed to
have had an intercourse with the great and
good Spirit, for he was stranger to everything
that was bad. The fame of this great
man extended even among the whites, who
fabricated numerous legends respecting him,
which I never heard however from the mouth
of an Indian, and therefore believe to be
fabulous. In the Revolutionary War his en-
thusiastic admirers dubbed him saint, and
he was established under the name Of st.
Tammany, the Patron Saint Of America. His
name was inserted in some calendars. and his
festival celeb ated on the first day Of May
in every year."
In an early account we find . good story OF
Tammany which is worth repeating. He was