"I appeal to any o eat; if ever ."--Speech of au Indian Chief.

        ter and s of taken in eed te, its vast lakes, boundless forests, majestic rivers, and trackless plains, t is, to my mind, riking and sublime. . ure is stern, simple, and enduring, ?tted to grapple ies and to     support privations. t little soil in    for t of tues; a, if    take trouble to pee t proud stoicism and ual taciturnity ion, o him.

        It    of tunate abines of Ameri tion to be doubly e men. tary possessions by merary and frequently on ers raduced by bigoted and ied ers.

        ts ofteed ts of t, and to justify rages. t easier to extermio civilize; tter to vilify to discrimiions of savage and pagan    to san tilities of bot ed and defamed, not because ty, but because t.

        ts of ted or respected by te man. In peace oo ofteful traf? ion and venience. Man is cruelly eful of life y, and little mercy is to be expected from ing of tile and is scious of to destroy.

        t in on circulation at t day. Certain learned societies    is true, o iigate and record ters and manners of tribes; t, too, ed itself to inculcate a friendly and forbearing spirit too protect tice.* t opinion of ter, oo apt to be formed from t tiers and s of ttlements. too only posed of degee beings, corrupted and enfeebled by ty,    beied by its civilization. t proud independence y, and tive ce coed by tened neigy    imes breed desolation over a y. It ed trengtiplied ty ti?cial life. It s,    e    ttlement and seek refuge in ter forests a untrodden oo often ?nd tiers to be ts of once poribes, tlements and sunk into precarious and vagaboence. Poverty, repining and y, a ker of ts and bligy of tures. t, feeble, ter like vagrants about ttlements, among spacious de e forts, . Luxury spreads its ample board before t t. Plenty revels over t tarving in t of its abundance;     to a garden, but tiles t i it.

        * t igable in its exertions to ameliorate tuation of to introduce among ts of civilization and civil and religious knoo protect te traders no purcted, nor is any person alloo receive lands from t    tion of gover. tions are strictly enforced.

        ate ed lords of ts i?cation , enduring ts, arrayed in ts. No roof t er; no smoke curled among trees but o sit dos ?re and join ter in . "For," says an old orian of e t ratarve t, tarve all; time merrily, narding our pomp, but are better tent eem so meanly of." Su tive natures: ts , but sivation and perishe sun.

        In discussing ter ers oo proo indulge in vulgar prejudid passionate exaggeration, instead of temper of true p suf?tly sidered tances in s midly from rule t is regulated acc to some general maxims early implanted in    govern o be sure, but fe to te man abounds in la e!

        A frequent ground of accusation against treaties, and treaess ime of apparent peace, to ilities. tercourse of te men oo apt to be cold, distrustful, oppressive, and insulting. treat t ?dend frankness ion observed not to offend against tition    to ility quicker tions of i. tary savage feels silently, but acutely. ies are not diffused over so e man, but teadier and deeper s, itions, are all directed tos, but ted on tionably severe, and furnisives of ility ly appreciate. y is also limited in number, and forms one great patriarcribe, timent of vengeance is almost instantaneously diffused. One cil-?re is suf?t for t of a plan of ilities. ing-men and sages assemble. Eloquend superstition bio ior aial ardor, and t up to a kind ious desperation by t and the dreamer.

        An instance of one of tions, arising from a motive peculiar to ter, is extant in an old record of ttlement of Massacts. ters of Plymouts of t Passo, aertain for tribes t ions exiled from tors, y, o turn aside from te tradition, ry for miles to some tumulus, buried perribe ly deposited, and t meditation. In?uenced by tomb ed gatogetifully simple and patig instance of ?lial piety in a savage:

        " t of all t, I began to settle, as my    is, to take repose. Before mine eyes    closed met I sa rembling at t doleful sig cried aloud, Bes t gave t lapped t. st t to take revenge of t in a despiteful manner, disdaining our antiquities and oms? See, no truded on our land. If t rest quiet in my everlasting ation. t vanis, not able scarce to speak, began to get     some strengt my spirits t ermio demand your sel and assistance."

        I e at some lengt tends to ss of ility, ed to caprid per?dy, may often arise from deep and generous motives, ion to Indian cer and s prevents our properly appreciating.

        Anot ainst ty to ts in partly in polid partly in superstition. tribes, times called nations,    t t; ticularly tly engaged in ance occurs in Indian ory    o its neigure and massacre of its principal ?groation, to tor to be merciless, not so muco gratify any cruel revenge, as to provide for future security. titious belief, frequent among barbarous nations and prevalent also among ts, t ttle ives. t ted into treated ion of relatives and friends; nay, so able and tender is tertai ive is offered ten prefer to remain ed breturn to th.

        ty of toened siion of tes.    ition ed into a grati?cation of vengea but be sensible t te me dominion, tion, and troyers of to battle smarting ies ion and tes oo frequently set te tence, a savages do not sion and magnanimity to t mere existend ess.

        e stigmatize treacratagem in o open force; but in ti?ed by taug stratagem is praise    no disgrace to lurk in silence, and take every advantage of riump and sagacity by roy an enemy. Indeed, man is naturally more proo subtilty to ural usks, alons; but man o depend on y. In all ers s tem; and y against    ?rst tile mode of warfare.

        tural principle of o do t o our enemy    o ourselves; and to be effected by stratagem. t co despise tions of prudend to rusain danger is ty and produced by education. It is    is in fact triumpy se over an instinctive repugo pain, and over ter personal ease and security    alive by pride and ts but in tion. It imulated also by various means. It -stirring song and cory. t and minstrel ed to s tion, and even toriay of narration and broken forto ents praise. triumps s res, on s skill and opules treasures, ed to perpetuate a nations gratitude and admiration. ti?cially excited, ce o araordinary and factitious degree of ;pomp and circumstance of ; turbulent quality o eclipse many of t but invaluable virtues er and side of human happiness.

        But if ce intrinsically sists in tinual exion of it.

        ate of perpetual ility and risk. Peril and adventure are genial to ure, or rato arouse ies and to give an io ence.

        Surrounded by ile tribes, udes of o, as torms, and s , solitary, but undauions may vie in distand danger ee or t-errant. raverses vast forests exposed to tormy lakes, t inland seas, are no obstacles to    oe of bark s like a feats ness of an arroence is snatc of toil and peril. aract.

        No    or modern days    surpass ty pt of deatitude ains    af?i. Indeed, e man in sequence of ion. tter ruso glorious deat templates its approacriumply e amidst torments of surrounding foes and tracted agonies of ?re. akes a pride in taunting ors and provoking ty of torture; and as tals and t song of triump and invoking ts of o     a groan.

        Notanding torians ers of tuives, some brigre on ts are occasionally to be met ern provinces    speak for t on hy when prejudice shall have passed away.

        In one of tives of touc of tion carried into tribe of ty sail of indiscrimi t, s s dotempting to escape, "all beic; After a series of similar transas "our soldiers," as torian piously observes, "being resolved by Gods assistao make a ?nal destru of t; ted from tresses and pursued y but gallant band, t of te in a s.

        Burning ion and rendered sullen by despair, s bursting    tru of tribe, and spirits galled and sore at t, to ask t ting foe, and preferred deato submission.

        As t drereat, so as to render escape impracticable. tuated, t;plied t all time, by    preceded to t;t    to t still a to pieces" t dauntless spirits, told, entering t;saing close togeten or tol bullets at a time, putting t o t;

        any oale    admiring tern resolution, tiness of spirit t seemed to s of taugo raise tinctive feelings of ure?

        e ty of Rome, tors cloted ern tranquillity in t resistance or even supplication. Suate and sullen. ruly are ance!    is virtue clotate, from virtue naked aute and perishing obscurely in a wilderness!

        But I forbear to dures. tern tribes s t sered traces remain of ttled States of Neing ream. And suc, sooner or later, be te of tribes iers, and s to mingle in te men. In a little hren have gone before.

        till linger about tributary streams of te of tribes t once spread over Massacts and ecticut and lorded it along t gigantic race said to ed on tions t ?ouris tomad t peopled ts of t valley of Sory    in fetfulness; and "t no; Or if, perc may be in tic dreams of t, to people in imagination yrs and sylvaies of antiquity. But sure upon tory of tcell ed, despoiled, driven from tive abodes and ted like s about t doco terity urn y from tale or blusion at ty of t;e are driven back," said an old ;until reat no fartcs are broken, our boinguistle longer and te man o persecute us, for !"
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