have driven us from the sea to the lakes ; we can go no further. They have taken upon them to say this land belongs to the

Miamis, this to the Delaware*, and so on ; but the Great Spirit intended it as the common property of us all." For four years he was engaged in the work of preparing the tribes for a gene war. A silent man in the ordinary circumstances of life,

ral

he could employ more than the eloquence of Logan, and when

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the Indian's wrongs, and the white man's General Harrison, who was long his patient and forbearing adviser, and then his conqueror, speaks of him

descanting upon

encroachments.

as " one of those

uncommon geniuses which

sionally to produce

order of things.

revolutions, and

spring up occa

overturn the established

If it were not for the vicinity of the United

he would, perhaps, be the founder of an empire, that would rival in glory Mexico or Peru. No difficulties deter States,

him. For four years he has been in constant motion. You see him to-day on the Wabash, and in a short time hear of him

on the shores of Lake Erie or Michigan, or on the banks of the Mississippi and wherever he goes he makes an impression ;

favorable to his purposes."

Failing to accomplish his purpose, he accepted the overtures of the British and brought to their an alliance aid, in the war of 1812, two thousand warriors

more powerful than that which that government had ever been able to command even in the palmiest days of the Five Nations.