Soon after the arrival of the latter, a white man named Gilmore was killed near the fort. The cry of revenge was raised, and a party of ruffians assembled, under the command of Capt.

while

Hall, who, instead of pursuing 'the guilty, fell upon the hostages

Seeing that there was no escape for him, the old " chief addressed his son son, the Great Spirit has seen fit

in the fort.

My

:

that we should die together, and has sent is

his will,

and

let

us submit."

you to that end.

It

CORNSTALK fell, perforated

with seven bullets, and died without a struggle, while his son met his fate with composure and was shot on the seat upon

which he was

"

Thus," says Withers in his Indian Chronicles, "perished the mighty CORNSTALK, sachem of the Shawanoes, and king of the northern confederacy in 1774, a sitting.

many great and good qualities. He was disposed to be at all times the friend of the white man, as he was ever the advocate of honorable peace. But when his chief remarkable for

country's

wrongs summoned him

to

battle,

he became the

HUDSON RIVER INDIANS.

thunderbolt of war, and made his enemies feel the weight <af His noble bearing, his generous and disinterested his arm.

attachment to the colonies, his anxiety to preserve the frontier of Virginia from desolation and death, all conspired to win for

him the esteem and respect of others while the untimely and perfidious manner of his death caused a deep and lasting feeling ;