Year: 1879




GENERAL sHERsfANs REMARKS.


General Sherman was called for by the crowd, and
on being introduced greeted with three cheers.
He spoke follows-


LADIES AND GENrLEMEN-I am often embarrassed
in speaking to assembages of this kind to know
who are soldiers and who are citizens. think eau
recognize among you many faces that with
me- and there are, / have doubt, those in tho
in the great civil war. CheersD Dut that
is past, and although you can keep in your
hearts and minds the memories of those days OF
hardship and danger-as You ought to do--yet you
should recolloc tnat you engaged in another
warfare with Nature. On visiting this country again
/ express myself as simply amazed. do not know
what to think about it. After the civil war was ia
command OF all this country military oiicor,
Kansas visited a little fort up here Called Larns4:
situated between Bents Fort and Fort Leavsn-
worth. When got to Fort Larned there
three four companies, living in dugouts-
Caughter)-and one or two kind or tents built up
the great and beautiful palaces. then OF the people
of this State. Iaughter.) My friends. Mr.. Kick
encamped just hereaboIt whore stand.
They sent me word they wanted to pay me visit.
to talk with the Commander-in Chief. and
sent them word to come along. told them what
was going to happen, and that they had better pre-
pare to leave. They would not believe me.


Lo, THE POOR INDIAN.


The next year war up aud they had to co.
On the OF their visit they came with their
war paint on and armed with carbines in their hands
and pistols by their sides, and they had prepared
themselves to look like devIs-as they were. We
had what they called "talk." and it was pretty
plain talk, too, on my part. They did not like it,
They did not believe me when l said the white
coming here to take possession of these lands.
to live here. The next year we had the war
which resulted in the killing of Black Kettle
down in the Indian country. At that time
they came to me and begged for meat although there
plenty OF antelopes in this country and some
elk. They wanted pork: We gave them pork and
Observation-Disclosures temperance
men in those days. Renewed laughter.) We gave
each fellow q hat-one of those soldier hats with
yellow feather in it-and they were the proudcst
Indians you ever saw / very glad
to see that they are gone now and don't care very
much where they are gone to- Great lauehterJI
Some of these Indians are still lett in the Indian
country about Fort Sill. Little Raven has pretty
good farm down there and he raised crop of wheat
this year. and he is going to keep for better prices
more laughter Kicking Bird was good Indian, if
and because he was good Indian s0Gh they sen
him to the good hunting ground, little
than MS appointed sime by poison; Black Kettle
country here can barely recognize the outlines of
those Mills. We came down iuto the camps OF
Black Kettle and they seemed to have been between
this point and where your town now stands. Other
wise cannot see one particle of the
old landscape I do not think l remember
Of seeing any trees. certainly no ploughed land
aud piles Of watermelons such as l have seen up
there at the end of that tent Iaughter) Certainly
there were no ladies', such us see before me now.
and strong. brawny, healthy. hearty inen-a better
product than any amount Of wheat. corn. barley or
of men. women and children. Eauehter.)
You have very excellent crop of young
trees; l hope they will grow; l doubt it
some myself am told you raise wheat and
certain you can raise cattle, horses, sheep and
children. lLaughter.) Yes. and children; they
always coIAe The President has never been in this
spot before. but he has been West In 1S47 and lS48
he went TO New Mexico. SO ne is not q stranger to
this Western country. 1t took a good deal of
preparation and long time go to Brent's
Fort III those days; but now you can get
in your comfortable railroad train and through
the country in two days. You cannot raise corn
here, think II You can raise you may count
it as clear gain. Laughter.) II you wheat you
doing first rate believe wheat will grow here,
siby grow il you water them and nurse them well.
Formerly there was not single tree between here
and Fort Wayne. I am delighted to see SO many
people greet the President and his party because
shows that you keep in your hearts that love of
country which Is needed for developing O country
of this kind, and should always be deeply planted
in the hearts of the soldiers who fought through
grow stronger until you find that this country,
new and undeveloped. is in the very centre of tha
wealth and civilization OF this country. Loud
cheers


At the conclusion of General Sherman's remarks
Mrs. Hayes was called for. and. being presented
to the crowd by General Sherman the best part Of
his speech. sho was greeted in enthusiastic man
ner. and made Kansas mother happy by taking her
baby in her arms, which was handed to the plat
form . specimen Of Juvenile western humanity.


Governor St. John was called upon and made
brief. pointed speech after which the party returned
to the train and resumed their journey.