Beadle's New Dime Novels: The Specter Chief — page 85: what you’re looking at

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a | = THE PHANTOM OHIEF. 89 3 wood, at some distance from the camp, When the last. of them bad passed out into the open ground they stopned, and one who appenred to be their leader, after arranging _ them for a long halt, advanced with about a dozen of his = * friends toward the gate of the outer inclosure, where they _ were met by an aid of Lord Dunmore, and conducted * within the intrenchment.. The seldicra, meanwhile, lad steod to their arms, and the little band, unarmed, walked _ With gravity mong the bristling -array, nial thew, reached the long tent in the middle of the camp, when .the .Com- mander-in-chief issued from his marquee anid the rol! of drums an? the flourish of trumpets, aud welcomed the visitors in the manner customary on sach occasions. The earl seated himself in the midst of the staff, the Indians being secommodated iv front; and when the initial cere- a monies were ended he arose, and addressing himself to the principal chief, said: ** Your father’s ears are open!”, and resumed his seat. _ Cornstock, who had been depuied as speaker on this ‘Important ocension, coulinued to sit for some sinotes after _ the Governor had intimated his readiness to hear him. _ The chiefs who had accompanied him, were survivors of that renowned circle with whom he had beld canneil he- fore the battle of Kenahawa, and as be contemplated them, defenceles:, like himself, in the midst of the victorious Long-knives, his emotions were too strong for utterance, . At length he stood up, and while a silence remained, so perfect that the rustling of the dead leaves about the emp coukl be distinctly heard, he opened a discourse which, - { for. cl.quence, has been compared by an officer why was | present, to the best cffuris of the Henry's and the Leo's, who were at that moment reaping imperishable, henor by their cfforts among the patriots of the Atlantic cities, Reviewing the successive treaties which his people had — ~ made with the whites—the decline of trives, once inasiers *: of the soil, to their present degraded and abject condi- - tion—‘he perfidy which bat been us toward eee __ injustice of borderers and traders, and the mantis halen : = sti eran. isin Bad = com a » , * a - at - ¥ a