Beadle's New Dime Novels: The Specter Chief — page 86: what you’re looking at

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90 THE PHANTOM CHIEF. ble war, now so disastrionsly terminated—be grew lower and louder, until his impassioned tones were heard to every partof the camp. He knew well the history of the red nations, and was familiar with the topography of the country from the upper Mississippi to the heart of the settlements, and his wpeech gained force by the clearness of his illustrations. Yielding to necessity, as well as to his inclination, he offered an alliance with the British | government ; but with a fervor inspired by humiliating ex- perience, he soaght to keep from his towns the deadly potion which threatened their rnin—and the unprincipled — traders who first cheated and then corrupted the people. The treaty was concluded; and perhaps it is some con- firmation of the existing suspicions, that in the revoln- t'onary struggle which opened at Lexington in less than six months afterward, the Shawanos, with the exception of Cornstock and a few of his friends, took the side ofthe northern country. At all events. it would not have been easy to convince the patriots of Virginia that the intrigues of the British Government were not the’cause of that ad- herence. The head chief himself avoided the contest, and until his death he continued upon friendly terms with the colonists. . It was one of the astipniations of the treaty that the prisoners captured by the Indian shonld be brought in and surrendered to their while friends. Some time necessarily elapsed before the scattered captives could be collected, but they were at length conducted by different routes to the camp. From Chilicothe came a number who had been _ gathered! from neighboring villages, and as they approach- ed the intrencliments, how diverse the feelings which arows m their bosoms! A few, who had been sulijected to rigid treatment, and whose fate had been held in suspense, ‘were overjoyed to be restored to the assurance of Jife and freedom. But the majority were actuated by a variety of contending emotions. By the s'¢e of our friend, Moric, walked the wife of the greyt Shawano, in tears at the -. prospect of her separation forever from one toward whom @ue Lad opened ber heart wits almost Maternal foniness. : =) comicbooks. hte Bs . a 4 - ; . a Pit oe: