Beadle's Dime Novels No. 135: The Cherokee Chief — page 59: what you’re looking at

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SALOUEH GROWS ELOQUENT. 61° » ‘This was the time for Saloueh to play his part—the moment which had been agreed upon between him and Latinac. _ He sprung forward into the midst of the assembly, grasped _ the tomahawk, and drew it from the log. r “JT will take it up!’ he shouted, brandishing the weapon with furious gestures. “I am for war, and always have becn, I hate the English, and want to destroy them, as they are seeking to destroy us. I am not one of those cowards who sit down and eall for peace, while the ground is wet with the’ blood of our’ bravest warriors, and the air is hot and thick with the fire and smoke of our burning villages. Let those de- , stroyers of children and conquerors of corn-fields come on! They will find us ready. Let them gather their young men, and. send on their swarms of sneaking Chickasaws and - cowardly Catawba3! we willsweep them from the land like’ fliesjand will burn them with their own torches; “Let the’ _ old men stay at home with the old women; and nu he children who are braver than they are. Ii __ Whenthey:hear oor war-cry as we go forth to ba | + knock ‘their knees together when our sculp halo tells then that wd are coming back victorious. Saloueh’is a warrior; the sight of blood does not "Scare him; and he is for war. Ail who are-young, who boast of being warriors, who are not’ weak old mer, will follow me. He is a coward, and no better. *5m9>n, who will not follow me. The spirit’ of the ; ‘upon us for vengeance, and who will refuse to hear * them? There is an'end of talk. All'who are for war follow me. All who are cowards and old women will st were in vain raised agdinst the tumult. - They were not lis! to, or were drowned by the popular outcry. - Even Oconost warrior, was aguin carried away by the war | and there was.no possibility of staying the tide, 4) 4) - \o congratulate each other on the result of the: tion ey Zs Eomicbooks:co