Whereupon Red Iron rose to his feet, 'with native grace and dignity,' says Mr. Heard, his blanket falling from his shoulders, and, purposely dropping the pipe of peace, he stood erect before the Governor, with his arms folded and his right hand pressed upon the sheath of his scalping knife. With the utmost coolness and self-possession, a defiant smile playing upon his thin lips, and his eyes sternly fixed upon his excellency, the Indian, with a firm voice, replied: 'I started to come, but your braves drove me back.' GOVERNOR. 'What excuse have you for not coming the second time when I sent for you?' RED IRON. 'No other excuse than I have given you.' GOVERNOR. 'At the treaty, I thought you a good man; but since, you have acted badly, and I am disposed to break you. I _do_ break you.' Red Iron looked at the Governor for a moment with a look of withering contempt and scorn, and then burst out in a voice full of derisive mockery. RED IRON. '_You break me!_ My people made me a chief. My people love me. I will still be their chief. I have done nothing wrong.' GOVERNOR. 'Red Iron, why did you get your braves together, and march around here for the purpose of intimidating other chiefs, and prevent their coming to council?' RED IRON. 'I did not get my braves together; they got themselves together, to prevent _boys_ going to council to be made _chiefs_ to sign papers, and to prevent single chiefs going to council at night, to be _bribed_ to sign papers for _money_ we have never got.' And then the inexorable fellow continued, without any regard to his excellency's nerves or conscience: 'We have heard how the M'Dewakantons were served at Mendota; that by secret councils you got their names on paper, and took away their money. We don't want to be served so. My braves wanted to come to council in the _daytime_, when the sun shines; and we want no councils in the dark. We want all our people to go to council together, so that we can all know what is done.' The Governor is nothing abashed at these damaging charges, but returns once more to the assault. GOVERNOR. 'Why did you attempt to come to council with your braves, when I had forbidden your braves coming to council?' To which Red Iron, with the same masterful, defiant smile upon his 'thin lips,' answers: