| Show TIIE THE INDIAN THE tue indian question at the last advices advises ad vices from the east was occupying considerable attention the subject being brought braught on the tapis by the visit of spotted tall and red bed cloud to washington these chiefs with their squads squaws had a grand rand reception at the white house where the g greatest honor was done them by president grant the cabinet ministers members of foreign legations and the ladies ladles everything combined to make the occasion occasion one of astonishing interest to the red bed men the table was covered with flowers and all the decorations customary on grand occasions but of all the beauties of the festive seene scene it la is said there was nothing which so captivated the it deans as the ice cream and strawberries these tickled their palates and had a treaty been p presented resented to them at that juncture the veracious chroniclers who allude to this feature of the entertainment have no doubt but they would have signed it whatever its terms might have been but the propitious hour was permitted to pass unimproved and the next day the chiefs met secretary cox and the members of the peace commission in solemn council at the interior department the effect of the good things eaten the previous day had departed the secretary told them that their great father president grant wanted them to live on their reservations and be peaceable and clothing and provisions would be given them but they would not have guns and ammunition given them until they showed that they were willing to live at peace to this red cloud made a speech its purport has already appeared in our telegraphic dispatches but though it has been styled worthy of red jamet it does not generally suit the journalists of the country they think the question raised by the demands of red cloud is a conflict between civilization and barbarism one of them puts the question in this form shall the united states close the territories to the white man stop the construction of railroads drive out the miners turn the country between the missouri river and rocky mountains into one indian camp and wait till the last survivor of their deadly wars offers to sell out the vast region be he has inherited it replies to its own question by saying n gi it t may be hard for spotted tail tall and red bed ed cloud to submit but they must the world cannot postpone its progress because they refuse to abandon the antics of their fathers another paper thinks I 1 a dose of phil sheriden Sherl sheri den would be more wholesome medicine for the savages than ice lee cream or strawberries u I 1 the country is evidently in no mood to endure anything from the indian his destruction in the eyes of many is determined upon he has no rights which in their opinion the government men ought to respect except mohave to have him conform to the civilization provided for him and they think his utter extinction is only a question of time and a very short time too ve rons rong |
