Remarks Made on a Tour to Prairie Du Chien: Thence to Washington City, in 1829Isaac N. Whiting, 1831 - 296 sider |
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Remarks Made on a Tour to Prairie Du Chien: Thence to Washington City, in 1829 Caleb Atwater Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2016 |
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Side 89 - tis our shame and misery not to learn, Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a lustre, he that runs may read.
Side 284 - His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number, nor example, with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single. From amidst them forth he pass'd, Long way through hostile scorn, which he sustain'd Superior, nor of violence fear'd aught; And with retorted scorn, his back he turn'd On those proud towers, to swift destruction doom'd.
Side 69 - The ladies belonging to the officers' families and the best families in the Prairie, were seated directly behind the commissioners, where they could see all that passed and hear all that was said. Behind the principal Indian Chiefs sat the common people — first, the men, then the women and children, to the number of thousands, who listened in breathless and death-like silence to every word that was uttered. The spectacle was grand and morally sublime in the highest degree to the nations of red...
Side 11 - ... in the harbor — the cracking of the coachman's whip, and the sound of the stage driver's horn, salute the ear. The motley crowd of citizens, all well dressed, hurrying to and fro — the numerous strangers from all parts of the world almost, visiting the place, to sell or to buy, goods — the deeply loaded dray cart, and the numerous pleasure carriages rolling to anil fro, arrest and rivet the attention of a mere traveller like myself.
Side 121 - ... is exerted to its utmost power, and his voice is loud, clear, distinct and commanding. He becomes, to use his own expressive phrase — A MAN. He recalls to the minds of his audience the situation and circumstances of his ancestors, when they inhabited the whole continent; when they, and they only, climbed every hill and every mountain, cultivated in peace the most fertile spots of earth, angled in every stream, and hunted over every plain in quest of game, and glided along in their canoes, on...
Side 174 - Kairake," (the good chief), which their kind partiality had given me on my first landing at Prairie du Chien. Their minds were entirely overcome with joy. The day being far spent, and, as the loading of the canoes, in which they were about to depart, would necessarily occupy some little time, I informed the chiefs and principal men that the time had arrived when we should part to meet no more; that the great gun at the fort would soon be fired to do them honor. With one accord they all arose, and...
Side 71 - So the treaties were executed at last, and about eight millions of acres of land added to our domain, purchased from the Indians. Taking the three tracts, ceded, and forming one whole, it extends from the upper end of Rock Island to the mouth of the Wisconsin — from latitude 41 degrees, 30 minutes, to latitude 43 degrees, 15 minutes, on the Mississippi.
Side 147 - ... taught to build houses, to give up the chase and cultivate the earth. The Indian youth should be taught the mechanical arts and schools for that purpose should be established. Mr. Atwater was a deep sympathizer with the Indian and he already saw in the treatment accorded him that "Century of Dishonor." "As the tide of emigration rolls westward our red brethren will be driven from river to river, from mountain to mountain, until they finally perish. My heart is sick of the idea. My poor veto against...
Side 110 - Where this displays ardour of attachment, accompanied by purity of conduct, the character and the influence of women rise, our imperfect nature mounts in the scale of moral excellence; and from the source of this single affection a stream of felicity descends which branches into a thousand rivulets that enrich and adorn the field of life. Where the attachment between the sexes sinks into an appetite, the heritage of our species is comparatively poor, and man approaches to the condition of the brutes...