The Poetry and History of Wyoming: Containing Campbelle'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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... council was numerously attended , large dele- gations being present from each of the Six Nations , excepting the Senecas . Of these there were but three chiefs at the council , -that nation having been prevented sending a stronger ...
... council was numerously attended , large dele- gations being present from each of the Six Nations , excepting the Senecas . Of these there were but three chiefs at the council , -that nation having been prevented sending a stronger ...
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... council was to kindle a new fire , " and " strengthen the chain of friendship " with the Indians , in anticipation of a war with France . Other subjects were brought before the council for consideration . Among them , the Gov- ernor ...
... council was to kindle a new fire , " and " strengthen the chain of friendship " with the Indians , in anticipation of a war with France . Other subjects were brought before the council for consideration . Among them , the Gov- ernor ...
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... council , the acting Gov- ernor called the attention of the Six Nations to the conduct of " a branch of their cousins , the Dela- wares , " in regard to a section of territory , at the Forks of the river , which the Proprietaries had ...
... council , the acting Gov- ernor called the attention of the Six Nations to the conduct of " a branch of their cousins , the Dela- wares , " in regard to a section of territory , at the Forks of the river , which the Proprietaries had ...
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... council , when Canasseteego open- ed the proceedings by saying that they had care- fully examined the case , and " had seen with their own eyes , " that their cousins had been " a very unruly people , " and were " altogether in the ...
... council , when Canasseteego open- ed the proceedings by saying that they had care- fully examined the case , and " had seen with their own eyes , " that their cousins had been " a very unruly people , " and were " altogether in the ...
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... council , and consider what has been said to you . " * There was no diplomatic mincing of words in the speech of the Onondaga chieftain . He spoke not only with the bluntness of unsophisticated honesty , but with the air of one having ...
... council , and consider what has been said to you . " * There was no diplomatic mincing of words in the speech of the Onondaga chieftain . He spoke not only with the bluntness of unsophisticated honesty , but with the air of one having ...
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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...