Beadle's Dime Novels No. 135: The Cherokee Chief — page 58: what you’re looking at

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60 SALOUEH, THE CHEROKEE. The council was largely attended, and the voices of the young warriors were enthusiastic for war. The French emis- saries had not been idle, and had neglected no opportunity or pretext to excite them -against the English. | Latinac was there with a large supply of arms and presents, ‘which he lavishly distributed among _ his friends and those whom he was desirous of converting to the cause of the French. When the war excitement was at the highest in the council, he rose to his feet, and made a speech to ITN oy and warriors. He recounted, in forcible and stirring words, the weings, both real. and imaginary, which the Cherokees had sufféreq at the hands of the English, charging the inhabitants of the Carolina provinces with all the aggressions, provoked and unprovoked, that had been committed by the Virginians, He declared that it was the purpose of the English to utterly exterminate all the red-men, so that their own people might occupy their lands. He pointed to the wars of New England and Virginia as witnesses to the truth of what he had said, added the testimony of the burned towns of Keowee and Estatoe, and the memory of many slaughtered warriors, ~The king of the French, he said, had always been kind to his red children, and they had never suffered any wrongs at his hands or at the hands of his subjects. the , Were aggressive, bloodthirsty and tyranniear, Yi and would. never be satisfied but by destroying the Indians, or drivin them from their hunting-grounds. . ret the ed to the advantages which the French liad gained 0 nglish in the north—suppressing later news Ww we d received—and boasted of the —, of and Fort Loudon He reminded the Cherokees that : been placed in their hands, and Preteen | who wanted them. When properly armed, their people were superior to the English, he said, and only needed to make a and vigorous effort, to drive their enemies intothe sea, i repossess the lands which were rightfully their own, up his exciting _Speach, in which there was enough t to leaven a large lump of falsehood, by striking his romana, into a log, and nena shee take it up: ae Bs & the French. quite 14 Bled COnniclbooks.conn - ~*~ i pd - ™ a : - es. = lt ait a