Beadle's New Dime Novels: The Specter Chief — page 80: what you’re looking at

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Foal » ¥ i. ry) a . 4 . a THE PITANTOM CHIEF. — singly and by scores—and finally, themselves tireatened be an advancing host, eagcr to quench the last embers of their council fire in the blood of the surviving guardians, The other, composed of “their persecutors—men who lad thriven to fatness in the sunshine of colonial) prosperity, and who were about to take up arms against the parent ” country, because of some dispute about the mode in which their contributions to the imperial treasury should be levied on articles of trade. Alas, for the red mant.. His- tory has enshrined the memory of the counsellors in the white town by the banks of the Delaware, and the world shonts applause at their manhood; but who feels a single additional pulse of emotion for the congress by the plains of Scioto? The same day's sun shone upon both of these; for one of them,it went«lown with fearful omens—for the ~ other, it threw out auspicious promise of a morning of tri- umpli and peace. The left division of the Long-knife army, under General Lewis, was marching by land to the mouth of the Great “Kenhawa; and it was resolved to attuck this, before a junction could be effected with Lord Dunmore, who had embarked at Piltsbarg, and was coming down the Ohio When Cornstock found that the opinion of the majority - ‘was for action, he arose calmly, but with an air of deter- mination, and addressed hi: self to the assembled war- tiors in these remarkable worde, which have come down to ws with the history of the times: “ Well!—you have resolved to fight, and you sh-/l fight, although you will bave a hard work—but,” and he , Jooked sternly around the assembly, ‘if any man aitempts to run from the ficld, I will kill him with my own hard.” ~ An impressive silence followed, and the chieftain, with e lofty repose of manner, resumed his place; and sova the throng, issuing from the Council-house, proclaimed te the anxions multitude the termination of the eonferener. | _ Weshall not describe in detail the movements of the patriot army to the ground where, from early morn till ae they withstool the invaders. Marie watched unwir et array, aL TNE ACERS: aud hye . "1 " comisboolegees com) ee