Beadle's New Dime Novels: The Specter Chief — page 78: what you’re looking at

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82 THE PHANTOM CHIEF. whan he enlisted uniJer the banner of the Ouawa leader is 1762, he had earned additional reputation at the head of his own people, and was universally respecte for chival rous independence, fidelity and nobleness of soul. He, too, was to show hinisclf in yet other ficlds—to join the mother against the daughter in the strife of the Revolu- Adion—to avenge himself yet again on the settlements in the massacres preceding the treaty of Wayne—and then, enlightened by dearly-bought experience, he was to em- ploy his dying words in counselling his nation to embrace, in permanent friendship, the posterity of those whose de- struction had been the cbject of his lifee There was Weyapiersenwaw, or Blue Jacket, a violent warrior of the Shawano tribe, whose ardent thir-t for white blood had not been lessened by many signal successes. Next to Cornstock in the public ettimation, his influence after the Revolution (in which be fought) was to carry his country- men triumphantly through many sanguinary engagements, until, prevailing over the prudence of Little Turtle, it was to lead them into the fatal coufl'ct of the Maumee, There was Tarhe, (the Crane,) a Wyandot, now in the prime of vigor as a brave, and commencing a career of military as well as civil services, which were to raise him to the high- - est authority in the government of his nation. There was Scruniyattha, the Half king, a noted chief of the same tribe, who, aficr holding a post at the fork of the Ohio, and recciving there the maiden embassy of Washington, in 1758, had retired westward, and joined in the machina- tions of Pontiac. In the battle now about to follow, and in the revolutionary contest, his hatchet was to be dyed in the veius of many 4 foe, There was Hopocan, (Pipe,) a| savage warrior of the Minsi, or Wolf tribe of Lenni-lenape. The rival of the famous White-eyes, and eminent for fero- city and policy, he was to carve out,new claims to the re- spect of his people, and the fear of the white men. And .ow many thus united in that solemn council, who, in their yeuth, bad witnessed the paloyy days of the Miami tederation—the whirlwind conquests of the Iroquois! How many bad gathered precious laurels in the ware wilh the omicbooks;com > ~ *: 7 Fe