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Show REPORT OF THE BOARD OF INDIAN COMMISSIONERS. 25 railroads, looking for a place upon which to place his foot. The nation had promised to do this and that for them, yet many of these promises remained unfulfilled to this day. The military experience of General Grant had taught him that something ought to be done to save a remnant of these Indians. The policy of the present administration, if it can he carried out, will be to place the Indians on their reservations and educate and train them to walk in the white man's path. It had been settled by the Indians just out of Kansas that they could adopt civilized habits. What was now wanted was to put the Indians on these reservations, and spend a little of the money that had been spent in butchering them, to educate, elevate, and christianize them. The great object of the friend of the Indians was to let the people see them at public meetings and see that the Indians could be civilized. There was something that citizens could do, and that was they could manufacture public opinion. These Indians were looking to the white men to save them from extermination and to teach them Christianity. MR. BENJAMIN TAT1IAM said that he, with others, had pleaded the cause of the Indian before General Grant previous to his inauguration, and the President promised to do wThat he could for the Indian, and he ( Mr. T.) believed that the promise had been kept. ( Cheers.) Mr. Tatli& m traced the history of the treaties from the year 1851 to the present time, and the result of those treaties was that the Indians before them had been robbed of every foot of laud they possessed. The speaker then urged upon the audience not to cast a ballot for a President that felt less for the Indian than the present President. ( Cheers.) RECEPTION IN BOSTON, MASS. The Indian chiefs, whose advent among us was noticed in the morning, attracted much attention. This morning they were up early, admiring the green trees and lis-tening to the singing of the birds in the park opposite the St. James, and said it quite carried them back to the banks of the Wichita, with its groves and mocking- birds. Commissioner Tobey was on hand at an early hour with three open carriages, and the delegation were delighted with a drive through the suburbs of the city. They thought that the white man's houses were better than their buffalo tents, and that it was a good thing to go to school and learn trades if it would bring them such pleasant homes to live in ; so said little Raven. They stopped at the ice- houses on Jamaica Pond, and studied carefully the way they make frozen water ; and at the water- works, to see how they get the water to run into their washbowls at the hotel. Going through the grounds at Harvard, Little Robe thought he would try and send his son there to be educated, and the prints of Catlin's Indian history with Audubon's birds greatly interested them. On their way home they stopped for a few minutes at the house of Commissioner Tobey, to see his family, and then called on the governor at the State- house to pay their respects. Governor Claflin received them, kindly welcoming them to Massachusetts, and said that the policy of kindness to the Indian should always have his heartiest support. Little Raven replied through the interpreter that he thanked him, and Avished to say that he had been received with great kindness by all the people of the East, and that he was much pleased with all that he saw around him. He would carry it all back to his people, and tell them to live at peace with the whites. After being shown into the two " talking- rooms," as they called the senate and assembly chamber, they drove to their hotel. [ From the Boston Daily Advertiser.] PUBLIC RECEPTION IN TREMONT TEMPLE AN IMMENSE ASSEMBLY ADDRESSES BY GOVERNOR CLAFLIN, MAYOR GASTON, " LITTLE RAVEN," " BUFFALO GCOD," " STONK CALF,' 7 VINCKNT COLYKR, E. S. TOBY, AND WENDELL PHILLIPS. Any person who attempted to enter the Tremont Temple at eight o'clock last evening, to ie present at the public reception to the visiting Indian chiefs, under the auspices of the Massachusetts Indian Commission, realized that between three and four thou-sand people had been there before him, and that his chances of getting into the hall were exceedingly slim. From every entrance scores of people, unwilling to risk the unmerciful jamming which they saw that they were sure to be subjected to, turned |
