1812 History

Speeches delivered by Chiefs -1710-1805, 1812, p. 8

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INDIAN SPEECHES, DELIVERED BY Farmer s Brother^ TWO SENECA Sf Red Jacket^ CHIEFS. The following Speeches of Farmer's Brother and Red , Jacket, two of the Seneca Chiefs, communicated for publication in the Ontario Repository^ have bee« thought worth preserving in thp f trm of a pamphlet. furnished The gentleman who them with observing, Longinus would them to the Editor, prefaced /'The speech of Farmer's i Brother in is an interesting specimen of boldness of figure and one e'jspression, : have given him credit for the true subliwe rit *The Great Spi- spoke to the whirlwind, and it was still.' **The speech of Red Jacket, I think, discovers the same beauties of imagery, united with shrewdness of remark, and an extent of information, expected to fess that, in far, beyond what we should have I find in the wandering tribes of Indians. felt con- perusing this speech, I humbled in the view of myself, considering the superior advantages 1 had enjoyed from childhood, to those granted to this man of the woods. *'You may rely on the correctness of the speeches, as de livered by the Chiefs mentioned. I received it Red Jacket's was delivered, from a gentleman who was present when and wrote it sentence by sentence, as translated at the tinje, by the interpreter.'*

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