History of the Shawnee Indians, 1851-1854 InclusiveEphraim Morgan & Sons, 1855 - 316 sidor |
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Sida 306 - 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 glutted my vengeance: for my country 1 rejoice at the beams of peace.
Sida 36 - Their object was not to do injury, and thus provoke the Great Spirit, but to do good. They...
Sida 27 - I have great love and regard towards you ; and desire to win and gain your love and friendship, by a kind, just and peaceable life...
Sida 305 - 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 my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, 'Logan is the friend of white...
Sida 121 - Lawrence ; thence westerly to a fork of that branch of the great Miami river running into the Ohio, at or near which fork stood Loromie's store, and where commences the portage between the Miami of the Ohio, and St. Mary's river, which is a branch of the Miami, which runs into Lake Erie; thence a westerly course to Fort Recovery...
Sida 25 - That no man shall, by any ways or means, in word, or deed, affront, or wrong any Indian, but he shall incur the same pen^alty of the law, as if he had committed it against his fellow planter...
Sida 21 - But this is not all: they agree in rites ; they reckon by moons ; they offer their first fruits ; they have a kind of feast of tabernacles; they are said to lay their altar upon twelve stones ; their mourning a year; customs of women ; with many other things that do not now occur.
Sida 100 - When your army entered the country of the Six Nations, we called you the town destroyer; and to this day, when that name is heard, our women look behind them and turn pale, and our children cling close to the necks of their mothers.
Sida 123 - ... of which the Indian title has been extinguished by gifts or grants to the French or English governments ; and a piece of land on the main to the north of the island, to measure six miles, on lake Huron, or the...
Sida 122 - One piece six miles square at the Ouatanon or old Weea towns on the Wabash river. (8) One piece twelve miles square at the British fort on the Miami of the lake at the foot of the rapids.