When he arose before his savage audiences, his imposing manner created a feel but when he kindled with his great subject, he ing of awe seemed like one inspired. His eye flashed fire, his swarthy bosom ;

heaved and swelled with imprisoned passion, his whole frame with excitement, and his strong untutored soul poured

dilated

When eloquence, wild, headlong, and resistless. " His not addressing his clans, he was cold and haughty. " when Proctor proposed to withering sarcasm," says Headley, itself forth in

retreat from

Walden

his reply to the interpreter, who, offering ; * Your father the presence of Harrison, said, ' the sun is wishes you to be seated/ Father my father,

him a

chair in

My

and the earth my mother ;

!

I will rest

nature conscious of its greatness."

on her bosom

'

And Parton adds

reveal a :

u If to

HUDSON RIVER INDIANS.

conceive a grand, difficult, and unselfish project, to labor for years with enthusiasm and prudence in attempting its execution ; enlist in it by the magnetism of personal influence great multitudes of various tribes ; to contend for it with unfaltering

to

valor longer than there was hope of success ; and to die fighting for it to the last, falling toward the enemy covered with wounds, to give proof of an heroic cast of character, then is the Shais

wanoe chief TECUMSEH, in whose veins flowed no blood that was not Indian, entitled to rank among heroes." *