The Arkansas advocate., 1834-02-28

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 armies of painted warriors, counting tiiot,- sands. If that gentleman had been in Buchanan's station when 1t was surround
 ct by more than seven hundred Creeks and
 Shawnees, with only nineteen men and i tow resoute women to defend t4e fort,
 question whether ii wolid nave struck him
 as petty feud, or inelorious defence. Sir.
 Tecumseh, since the most celebrated war lIor oi the Red Men, then but boy, was there. This fact learned from the grand 1 daughter of General Robinson, Il lady who unites the spirit of her ancestor with taste and learning. Nhy is it that the gentle. man's sympathies are ali with the rcd monl Sir, al that time, they were as . hundred to one when compared with the whites. They naed theirs an.scraar esth ..east harlAnr- ously--at all their camps were to be seen stakes with human skeletons hanging a. round tIiem--sone small and sholt--in- iant5 which had perished with their moth- CTS.
 The gentleman spoke of retaliation did@lle ever hear of q white mans torturing a female or infant Indian? If he has, l beg the gentleman to set it down as false; cow ards and barbarians only are capable ef' misusing those whom ii is the duty of man to protect. Sir, no coward ever showed his iace there. He spoke of retaliation, and seems to think 1t the duty of the Go- velnmeat to discourage it, as piaetisod Ill the West. Was net the gentleman in fa- Evor Of privaleerins during the late war?- Did he not think 1t right iu Lis own State to ffiit Git pTiyateefs Of war to capture iner- chant vessels-net that those vessels had done the;n any wrong, but because their nation was at War with ours! Yet tho gen. tleman's patriotic blood curdles in his veins at the thought that a rude backwoodsman, with cabin just sufficient to shelter his ta- mly, and pony to pack in meat for their 1 support, when robbed of all by the harrass- ing allies of q powerful nation at war with his country. should retalSe his horse or take
 another, not by attacking u defenceless neutral, but at the hazard of his life. Re- taiation, indeed! How could Boon retali- ate, ii l77G, when bis daughter and the Miss CalloWaYs were carried prisoners, by the savages, far, far into the deep cane- tangled wildernessf What, catch and Siii an Indian girl! Could Boon do thatl No; no moro than he could give up his Ger trude--not of Wyoming, but of Boonsho- rough. They must De saved from the stake and fiamesl He raised his friends and re- solutely followed Oil; he fought and won q battle, and brought the trembling captives home to their mothers. He talked of pri- vate wars and petty piracy. The lives o. few soldiers were prized at that day III the i West, and when they fell were greatly miss ! ed. The West was weak, and faint, and bleeding, and scarce of soldiers. Let us examine, and see if those wars were so private as the gentleman seems to think. 1 From ITS3 to I790 the loss of property WAS immense. There were killed and wounded and taken prisoners 1900 men, women, and children. This is the estimate made Of the loss, in seven years of that war; which ragged with uneeasing fury for more than twenty years upon that harrass- ed people, which the gentleman may learn, ! if he ever reads book published on the other side of the Alleghanies.
 But, sir, as to the services performed by these hunters: At the most gloomy period of the revolution, when despair clouded the brow of the patriot, and hundreds were nocking Co the British standard, giving up their liberty aud their country's indepen- Gence as gone forever. When Cornwal1is was in the centre, and Ferguson had taken his position near the mountains in Cafoli- ua, encouraging the tories and disprtIng the whies. who drove that British General from his post3 was the hunters of Va tauga. JLey pursue.l him with the inpe-= tuositY of a mountain torrent, for tllify-six hours, stopping only one hour for refresh- Blent at ii.e Cewfens. 4 1t Kin lE.ins2s 2 noun tain they overlook the royal army drawn up upon its sunnna who climbed that steep, and dragged down the tyrant power, and by { tho bold exploit not only cheered the droop- iiar spirits of the whigs and carried terror to the tories, but made CornwalIis quail and retreat? Sir, when that conflict began, the
 mountain appeared volcanic there flashed along it's summit, aud around its base and up it's sides one light snlphurous biazc.--
 That [pointng to the eagle and flag of the
 House, eagles eye shone bright ill victo- ", that banner foated proudly out. His toFians give this as the most patriotic and l iInstfious achievement of the revolution f And. sir, pced tell that gentleman, who has at least noticed EIarshal's history, that ii was achieved by the hunters of the vest without the aid, even the knowledge of Go- 1 vernment. And upon that proud mount still let them stand; who would drag them down 10 the low estate of sayages? Who. would
 tear one laurel from their brow If you can't spare for those who i've, Ii'e mems oi Iivna. be Il SC the west will viii feed her pat
 riarcIlsl soldiers--tbey are old and few
 when they are gone may their rnantles fall
 to warrnaf,a.patriots' bosom, and nerve the
 soldiers aim. But you dare not reproach