round about us, may not be suffered to sell our people rum ; it keeps them all poor, makes them idle and wicked ; if they have

any money or goods they lay it all out in rum ; it destroys vir have a friendly tue and the progress of religion amongst us.

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present, that they will help us to build a church at Canajoharie, and that we may have a bell in it, which, together with the putting a stop to the selling of rum, will tend to make us religious and lead better lives than we now do."

Comparisons, it is said, are odious in this case they are not necessary in order to strip from history the high coloring which has been given to the eloquence of HENDRIK. Nor can it with truth ;

be added that Aupaumut " for capacity, bravery and vigor of mind, and immovable integrity united, he excelled all the abo Concede riginal inhabitants of whom we have any knowledge." to him all that even charity demands for his race, he yet failed

to rise to the greatness of Massasoit, Uncas, Philip, Teedyuscung,

He was less eloquent than dupaumut, Pontiac, or Tecumseh. Logan the Oneida, than Aupaumut the Mahican, than Cornplanter or Red Jacket of the Senecas ; his bravery and his integrity were alike tarnished by his selfishness. That he was a great man among his people, " esteemed the bravest of the brave, The concurrent testimony of among the Iroquois" is true.