Beadle's New Dime Novels: The Specter Chief — page 83: what you’re looking at

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> - .* 4 a THE PHANTOM CHIEF. 87 CHAPTER VII Another chapter, and we close our faithful story. It may be that in bearing our testimony to Indian virtues and sufferings, we have roused.a suspicion of our accu- Tacy as narrators. The hideous images of a savage war- fare may be thy only coloring, reader, for the history of the western tribes. Indeed, our belief that such bas been the case, was our main inducement to gather up some proofs of actual scenes very different from those prevail- ing in thy mind. For true it is, that associated With cus- toms from which civilized humanity recoils with horror, were others which the proudest offspring of European education might with honor emulate. It is no less true, that cruelties—which, in the savage, were, at least, re- lieved by noble motives to which their origin may be traced, or with which th:y have become so linked as to make it injustice to consider them apart—were, by multi- tudes of our own people, adopted and practiced with un- blashing triumph, We judge harshly the unenlightened - sivage—do we remember the sins of our own race? There were many individuals, who, in the midst of their benighted tribes, stood forth the champions of a better morality; have we rendered to these even the poor meed of remembrance? When, on the page of modern history, we see it indelibly recorded that owr fathers—since . the ‘birth of some of these very chiefs—tortured and burned in their very capitals, at their national alters, men, womed and children, who bad dared to open their hearts to God after the dictates of their own consciences, or whom su- pers ition had branded with the guilt of an impossible | crime—do we bethink ourselves of judgment which we mete to the uncivilized warrior, who, under the excite- ment of a battle, in which he had enconncered the risk of | a similar treatment, tried by fire the steadfastness of his ~~ ‘ comicbooks.com) er 4 90 ‘ x ee