The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer

THE INDIANS.

Red Cloud at Omaha—The Speech He Intends Making to the Great Father.

OMAHA, May 28.

Red Cloud and party arrived from Fort Laramie yesterday evening in charge of Major Gen. Smith. He was interviewed, and gave the following as the speech he intends to deliver to the President:

"GREAT FATHER—Thousands of miles away, where the sun's last light falls on the big hills, I have left my people to come and look my father in the face. As the light makes us see all things around us clearly, so may the Great Spirit make our talk plain, that we may understand each other, and that our council shall be as brothers who have met to smoke the pipe of peace.

"Father, I have heard that you are great and good. Listen to me, my Father, and let your ears hear one of your children, who comes from the wigwams of his people with truth in his heart and no lies upon his lips. I have made many treaties with your Commissioners, and they have promised many times, but have never kept their promises. And I have now come to see my Great Father myself, so that we can understand each other and make no promises that we do not mean to keep. They have told you that I am a murderer. But I do not understand it in that way. You, Great Father, have driven me away from my country, the only country I had to raise my children on. Tell me, Father, could any living man on this earth stand such a thing as this? Suppose I should go to your country, tear down your fences and steal your cattle and hogs, would you stand by and have no word to say? No, Father, I know you would not.

"In all the troubles of my people, the white man has been the first aggressor. Father we are not cowards. We know that you are great, and can crush us with your mighty power. But we believed that you are good, and that you will protect your children, when they come to you for what they believe to be theirs. They ask you to listen to us, to do by us as a good father should do by his children, and to let us carry back to our brothers and our people the assurance that the Great Spirit has smiled upon us, and that the Great Father is the Indian's friend and the Indian's protector."

The party consists of Red Cloud, sixteen of his chiefs, and four squaws. John Richard is with them. Gov. Campbell, of Wyoming, does not accompany them. The party is in charge of Gen. John E. Smith, who was sent by the Executive to accompany them to Washington. The party leave this afternoon for Chicago.