odged at the hotels, taken to all places of public
amusement, and provided with conveyances. But the policy of the
Government is to cause them to make a circuit through all the most
populous cities, as the crowds attracted by the appearance of the
Indians give them an extraordinary and incorrect idea of the American
population. Wherever they go they are in a crowd. If they are at the
windows of an hotel, still the crowds are immense; and this is what the
Government is anxious should take place. I was at Boston when the two
deputations of the Sioux and Sacs and Foxes tribes arrived. The two
nations being at enmity, the Sioux were conducted there first, and left
the town on the arrival of the Sacs and Foxes, or there would probably
have been a fight. The Governor received the latter in the Town-hall,
and made a speech; I was present. I thought at the time that it was not
a speech that I would have made to them, and if I mistook not, it
brought up recollections not very agreeable to the chiefs, although they
were too politic to express their feelings. But a few years before,
their lands east of the Mississippi had been wrested from them in the
most unfair way, as I have mentioned in my remarks upon the treatment of
the Indians by the American Government.

Governor Everett commenced his speech as follows:--

"Chiefs and warriors of the confederated Sacs and Foxes, you are welcome
to our Hall of Council. You have come a far way, from your red friends
of the West, to visit your white brethren of the East. We are glad to
take you by the hand. We have heard before of the Sac and the Fox
tribes: we have heard much of their chiefs, warriors, and great men: we
are now glad to see them here. We are of Massachusets: the red men once
resided here: their wigwams were on yonder hill: and their Council
Chamber was here. When our fathers came over the great waters, they
were a small band, and you were powerful: the red man stood on the rock
by the seaside, and looked at them with friendly eyes: he might have
pushed them into the water, but took them by the hand, and said welcome,
white man. Our fathers were hungry, and the red man gave them corn and
venison. Our fathers were cold, and the red man spread his blanket over
them and made them warm. We are now great and powerful, but we _will
remember_ in our prosperity the benefits bestowed by our red brethren in
our adversity."

Up to the present, they certainly have forgo