The Poetry and History of Wyoming: Containing Campbell's Gertrude, and the History of Wyoming, from Its Discovery to the Beginning of the Present CenturyM. H. Newman, 1844 - 398 páginas |
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... Quakers for the resto- ration of peace - Indian Council at Easton - Speech of Teedyuscung- Story of Weekquehela - Treaty of peace with Teedyuscung - The em- bassies of Christian Frederick Post - Efforts of Sir William Johnson- Equivocal ...
... Quakers for the resto- ration of peace - Indian Council at Easton - Speech of Teedyuscung- Story of Weekquehela - Treaty of peace with Teedyuscung - The em- bassies of Christian Frederick Post - Efforts of Sir William Johnson- Equivocal ...
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... Quakers , -a people , by the way , who have at all times manifested a deep so- licitude for the welfare of the Indians , and whose benevolent principles and gentle manners have , * MS . letter from Robert H. Morris , Governor of ...
... Quakers , -a people , by the way , who have at all times manifested a deep so- licitude for the welfare of the Indians , and whose benevolent principles and gentle manners have , * MS . letter from Robert H. Morris , Governor of ...
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... Quakers were strongly opposed to this measure , and so was Sir William Johnson , who judged that pacific relations might be more easily restored without resorting to a declar- * Memorial of the Quakers to Governor Denny , who had ...
... Quakers were strongly opposed to this measure , and so was Sir William Johnson , who judged that pacific relations might be more easily restored without resorting to a declar- * Memorial of the Quakers to Governor Denny , who had ...
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... Quakers , already cited . Strangely enough Loskiel asserts , repeatedly , that the Delawares and Shawanese had been instigated to these hostilities against the English by the Six Nations . The proof is conclusive , -rendered more ...
... Quakers , already cited . Strangely enough Loskiel asserts , repeatedly , that the Delawares and Shawanese had been instigated to these hostilities against the English by the Six Nations . The proof is conclusive , -rendered more ...
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... Quaker School in Philadelphia , as the secretary for the Indians . This was the same Charles Thompson who was afterwards secretary to the Old Congress of the revolution - who was so long continued in that station - and who died in the ...
... Quaker School in Philadelphia , as the secretary for the Indians . This was the same Charles Thompson who was afterwards secretary to the Old Congress of the revolution - who was so long continued in that station - and who died in the ...
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afterward arms arrived battle beautiful blood Brant brethren brother called Campen Captain Charles Miner chief civil claim Colonel Dennison Colonel John Butler Colonel Pickering colony command Connecticut continental army council defence Delawares Durkee Easton Eliphalet Dyer enemy escape father fell fire Forty Franklin French friends garrison Gertrude GERTRUDE OF WYOMING Governor hand hatchet heard heart hundred Indians inhabitants Jenkins Jonathan Joseph killed land Lazarus Stewart letter living massacre ment miles Mohawk Moravian mountains New-York night Ogden party peace Penn Pennsylvania Philadelphia present prisoners resided river Sachems Samuel savage scalped scene sent settlement settlers Shawanese side Sir William Johnson Six Nations Slocum spirit Stephen Susquehanna Company taken Teedyuscung territory thee Thomas tion tomahawk took tory town tribes troops valley of Wyoming wampum warriors wild Wilkesbarré woods young Zebulon Butler
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Página 367 - Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene; and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Página 382 - Logan, not even sparing my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully...
Página 381 - But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel to save his life.
Página 382 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat, if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was* ray love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, ' Logan is the friend of white men.
Página 89 - But how came you to take upon you to sell land at all? We conquered you, we made women of you; you know you are women, and can no more sell land than women.
Página 49 - And by my side, in battle true, A thousand warriors drew the shaft? Ah ! there in desolation cold The desert serpent dwells alone, Where grass o'ergrows each mouldering bone, And stones themselves to ruin grown, Like me, are death-like old : Then seek we not their camp — for there The silence dwells of my despair.
Página 8 - The orison repeated in his arms, For God to bless her sire and all mankind; The book, the bosom on his knee reclined, Or how sweet fairy-lore he heard her con, (The playmate ere the teacher of her mind): All uncompanion'd else her heart had gone Till now, in Gertrude's eyes, their ninth blue summer shone.
Página 380 - ... the print of his feet are still to be seen, and hurled his bolts among them till the whole were slaughtered, except the big bull, who presenting his forehead to the shafts, shook them off as they fell ; but missing one at length, it wounded him in the side ; whereon, springing round, he bounded over the Ohio, over the Wabash, the Illinois, and finally over the great lakes, where he is living at this day.
Página 13 - As monumental bronze unchanged his look: A soul that pity touch'd, but never shook : Train'd, from his tree-rock'd cradle to his bier, The fierce extremes of good and ill to brook Impassive — fearing but the shame of fear— A stoic of the woods — a man without a tear.
Página 380 - Their chief speaker immediately put himself into an attitude of oratory, and, with a pomp suited to what he conceived the elevation of his subject...