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BflSClEtLiOsrEOIJS COMMUNIGATIGKS.
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Bflscletliosreoijs Communigatigks.
BflSClEtLiOsrEOIJS COMMUNIGATIGKS .
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;; ' \ ,, ; .. JVot > . $ i > 1809 ,. , 'A » iyon have , * &t various tinies ^ given the public in your valuable Rilpository ^ accounts of the pro
gress . o £ the Indians m civili ^ atiQn , I presuiBje a specimen of the . abi * Bties dhsplajed by en orator , a few years sfrice , may not be uninteresting ; especially } when we consider * , that they , have no ex * ternal aids in acquiring the art by means of schools ^ ^ ooks ^ 6 r writ-.
mgs . . Indians being generally called savages , conveys the idea that they neither possess the virtues or acquirements of white civilized people ; and i » any are led to consider them ^ s deficient in the qualities requisite for these
attainments . Perhaps this view of them i £ erroneous : their having ., no ? written language among them is a great bar to the cultivation of their minds ^ and in conveying to posterity any imp . roYemenis'iu , the artsy &c . Fmmz wMt > l ib&ve le ^ m ^^ fth ^ in ^ m eh& ^ tt ^ t ih
thfe IMtea : Stated bf ArAftrica I iind mxkch reason to admire the virtues they possess , and the acquirements they individually make .
Logan * s speech has for many years been highly extolled . The following one of Red Jacket ' s , the best orator among the Six Nations , though more argumentative , seems worthy of being rescued from . the ^ bl rvion to -AvlriclfcAfc is iiivbk , fram
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being inserted only in a daily newspaper . The events that occasioned this speech are as follows . In July , 1802 , an Indian of the Seneca nation , named
George , . killed a white man , John Hewitt , near Buffaloe , in the state of New York % for which he was taken up and lodged in the nearest gaol of the United States , to , take his triaU When the sheriff of
Ontario county , in which the crime was committee ? , itfant to take hini i the Indians would not consent thrat he should be fettered , and agreed with the sheriff , that , if he must have hifn , they would
be answerable for conveying him to CanMarqua , the county gaol . The prortiise of an Indian chief may be relied on ; some of the principal sachems and chiefs conducted him to the gaol , armed with tomahawks and rifles . When
arrived there , they manifested great objection to his being imprisoned , and promised t <> bring him on the day of trial , for ludiansdreatd confinement ; but this
could licit fee granted . The following circumstances of the murder I state from the evidence given on the trial ; and as this was from active parties in the scene , they had powerful temptations to represent in ^ n ' unfavourable light every part of the Indian ' s coftthiert . From this evidence it appeared , tfeat while jwo . or three men were lying careless and without : « Kspi-
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INDIAN SfP ^ ECp , 1802 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1810, page 332, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2406/page/12/
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