Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1880 — Native Eloquences. [ARTICLE]

Native Eloquences.

the cugdcH firs to Ulk to you. Wc are not • great nation. Thebouescff our people are blenching in the homo of the pale face. We are not too numerous to mention. The light air and the. fire-water of the white too echo of my voice skoe cornea bark to me from toe wilderness- Some are in the hfiivnv httotin# irroandg. J (]HWt «i n hoconS^kioreand appeared before the pete face.' Grass is growing in the war'path. The white man me lew. I about to them end their voices crone back to ifiefik The willing winds. Our camp firee ere gone out, andWTare filheffftsi^fflippZSrMdSi^rhite man's porterhouse steak and jerked pancakes are given teup to krrn Hirer starvation . There are our wrpngfi. We here called on the wrest mhfoer at Washington f nsMdrrkT inti he told us to “brace «p.” the words of a kind father to his children 1 We asked again, and ha told us to-rehedse it" Is that the talk of a great,chiefr We are dropping off like autumn leaves. The toes of the ted man are taming up on every hand. [Laughter, and cries of “Oh, let up 1" from the galleries.) We are but a WfJffsfcxt j —1 1 *« nrfimLtouts liJtttMtoittgh tTr make a pte. The Great Spirit does not like this. He loves his children anffwilT not allow the pale face to get thebufge on them. The buffalo, the elk and the antelope belong to the ted man. The Texas cow and the veal cutlet belong to the pale Warriors, I have taken down the scalping knife and the tomahawk. 1 mean business My system requires the blood of ss&ss . We^must-have a little ex for the round trip Sd¥furnish Iho refreshments. And now, farewell. Go to your oouches and rest. Aduxl Bon Homllng! Tal tal Don’t oversleep youraelves, for on toe morrow we cook the goose of the pale face, and ride our war horses over his Watermelon vines.” /