Beadle's New Dime Novels: The Specter Chief — page 77: what you’re looking at

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Ti PHANTOM CUTER. 81 aadverted to. bat always been the settled opponent of peace ~ Upon any condition short of au abandonment by the whites of all the country west of the Alleghenies. Sagacious aud experienced. bis courage was of the most desperate charac- ter. and none exceeJed him in deadly enmity to the settlers. He now burned with the same ardor which led him, twenty Years later, into the fatal encounter with General Wayne, io which ended forever his hopes of success, Thenceforth he was to submit to destiny, and another period of twenty years was to find bim on the side of the colonies. grown into States. and warring, a second tinte, against the mother country; and again, after twenty years, he was to lie down with the weight of more than a century upoo him, and miu- gle his bones with the dust of that region for which he was now about to struggle—but which the progress of events before his departure was to cover with the busy towns of a a civilized people. There was Logan who bad always been the friend of the colonies, and whose amicable inter- ference had prevented many a secret biow upon the weak frontier; bat who—now bereft of his kindred by the treach- ery of the very people whom he bad befriended—had yet oe field of hovorable strife. and then, ere long, was to ob- seuré his renown by the sc!f-abandoument of despair, aud at Hast to fall, a lonely victim to the knife of the assassin. There was Meshekevoghquogh. better known as the. Lit- tle Turtle, a Miami who had served under the great Otlawa, Pontiac. and owing nothing to birth or iortune, had risen by superior merit, so that at the age of thirty years be stood proudly amongst the braves at Chilicothe. vid For him tiere were in reserve two blooly and fruitless: batiles, and then, on the Atiantic border, he was to be the — welcome guest of sages and p itriets: from the old world; ahd after years of wise government, of plans for repress- ing iniumanities, and elevating his people, he was to elose a life of utimpeached integrity and steadfastness, by his efforts against the confedcrating schemes of a second Pon- tige—the Shawano Tecumthe. There was Buckongahelas. - older than the Little Turtle, and occupying the rank of bead ‘ccf of the Dolawares. Already a stout fighter : : ee ee i — ee ee : * i ge Pag =