Life and liberty in America; . mbers of tliegovernment, and the members of Congress, all of whom ex-pected to receive the homage and the good wishes of theirfriends on New Years day; and, lastly, every married ladyin Washington with whom one had ever exchanged a wordor made an obeisance to. At nearly all of these places—withthe sole exception of the Presidents house—the visitor wasexpected to partake of refreshments, or to pretend to do my companions, being old stagers at the business, re-served themselves for the best places, and only on three oc-casions on that memorable day did our e
Life and liberty in America; . mbers of tliegovernment, and the members of Congress, all of whom ex-pected to receive the homage and the good wishes of theirfriends on New Years day; and, lastly, every married ladyin Washington with whom one had ever exchanged a wordor made an obeisance to. At nearly all of these places—withthe sole exception of the Presidents house—the visitor wasexpected to partake of refreshments, or to pretend to do my companions, being old stagers at the business, re-served themselves for the best places, and only on three oc-casions on that memorable day did our eating or drinkingamount to more than the veriest and most barefaced was one scene of huriy-scurry from morning tonight, and the penance done by the fair ladies in receivingsuch miscellaneous crowds must have been sorely trying totheir physical if not to their mental comfort. But they boreit with good-humor; and, if I had not had other reasons tocarry away a vivid recollection of the beauty, grace, INTERVIEW OF INDIANS, ETC. 87 and unaffected amiability of the ladies of America, the ex-perience of that day of toil would have been more than suffi-cient to justify such a remembrance in the case of the ladiesof Washington. CHAPTER XII. INTERVIEW OP INDIANS WITH THEIR GREAT FATHER. Washington, Jan. U, WAS present a few days ago at a great ceremonial inter-view between the President of the United States and delega-tions from three tribes of Indians—the Poncas, the Pawnees,and the Pottawatomies. Each delegation was totally uncon-nected with the other, and the Pawnees and Poncas were an-cient and hereditary foes; but, being in the presence of theirGreat Father, as they termed the President, they lookedupon each other with as much polite unconcern as the samenumber of civilized swells, not formally introduced, mighthave displayed at a fashionable assembly in London or did not appear to think of each other, but of their GreatFather, the
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