Beadle's Dime Novels No. 135: The Cherokee Chief — page 9: what you’re looking at

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—— : 4 3 THE SITUATION OF AFFAIRS. 11 ~~ English settlers. There was ffimediate danger, therefore, that the Carolinas would be involved in the war, in which, as a matter of course, the people on their frontiers must ‘suffer severely. To ayert this danger, the colonists had sent deputies to the Cherokees, to make ® treaty of peace, and to secure their friendship and neutrality in the contest, if they should not be able to obtain their aid against the Freheh. The re- sult of this mission was anxiously awaited in the Carolinas, especially by the settlers upon the border. - This was the subject upon which William Crawley and his family were conversing, one evening in the summer of 1756, as they sat under the spreading trees in front of their house, looking out over their beautifal meadows and the extensive forest, toward the dark boundary of the Blue Ridge. “ Suppose this mission should fail,” suggested Mrs. Crawley, with an apprehensive glance at Hester, who seemed absor bed contemplation of the fine prospect. . aa ; “4 I think there can be no danger of fa husband. “ We haye assurances that the Che ably inclined and anxious for peace W h us nothing to apprehend, oF oape from the intrigue of “ Those Frenchmen have a. of ihatited el tn fndiane, Buber,” said Matthew ( wiey: “They know how a ena of their management Iies in 1¢ fact that they treat Flag better and keep the promises t ast oF son. No people are more humane Bache and ~~ are more willing to rotect tata their rights and to teach them their in disposition may be good enough, but me seem to laren ps & poor way aa ay putting it in practice. We know Re, Be Indians are more willing to live under the rule of | than under that of the English, and that the gteater = Bart of them have always, in our former wars, sided with the “The French are very cunning, no doubt, and have been Ad 5 to. the Indians believe that they are strongér than the En ; but you should remember, Matthew, that the #5; ; -* . comicbooks:com