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 ;

of regret to pervade the bosoms, even of those who were ene mies to his nation, and excited the just indignation of all towards his inhuman murderers."

The most

distinguished chief of the Shawanoes, of

modern times, was TECUMSEH, who, " not the faultless ideal of a though

more

Parton justly writes, patriot prince that romantic as

that story represents him, was all of a patriot, a hero, a man, an Indian can be." He was a cross-breed, the son of a Skawaby a Creek woman, and at a very early age gave evidence of superior abilities in the wars which were terminated by the

noe

treaty of 1794. Thoroughly indoctrinated in the policy of his a and people, willing student of the schools which demanded a line beyond which the whites should not advance to the hunting

grounds of the west, the sale of the lands of his tribe on the Wabash, soon after Mr. Jefferson came into power, gave him

About this time Hendrik, of the Mahicans, offense. conceived the plan of uniting the tribes of the west for the better protection of their interests. TECUMSEH seized the idea