South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-11-28

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{ will not use the arms, which nature has
given it, if you modest the spot where
its dsdglings nestle, where its cubs
are crying for their meat?
! Then think Of the country, for
which the Indians fought! Who can
Blame them ? As Philip looked down
from his seat on Noun. hope, that
! glorious eminence, that
-4throne of royal state, which far
1 Outshone the wealth of Ormus or of Ind.
Or where the gorgeous east, with rich
| est hand,
Showers on her kings barbaric pomp and
gold.
AS he looked down and beheld the
lovely scene which spread beneath, al,
a summer sunset-the distant hiil-tops
4 blazing with gold, the slanling beams
streaming along the waters, the broad
plains, the island groups, the majestic
forests could he be blamed, if his
heart burned within him, as he behed
it all passing, by no tardy process,
from beneath his coatrol into the hands
of the stranger AS the river chief
tains-ihe lords of the water fall and
the mountains ranged this love val
ley, can it be wondered at if they be-
| held with bitterness the forest disap-
psaring beneath the settlers axe : the
fishing place disturbed by his saw
mills : Can we not fancy the feel.
ings with which some strong minded
savage, the chief Of the Pocumtuck In
dams, who should have assembled the
summit Of the sugar leaf mountain,
(rising as il does before US, at this
moment, in all its loneliness and gran
deur, in company with a friendly set
tier, contemplating the progress al
ready wade by the white man, and
marking the gigantic strides, with which
he was advancing into The wilderness,
should fold his arms and say, "White
man, there is eternal war between me
and thee! quit not the land Of my
fathers but with my life. In those
woods where bent my youthful bow,
| will still hunt the deer (; over yon-
der waters ! will still glide unrestrain-
ed ia my bark canoe. By those
dashipg waterfalls will still lay up my
winters store Of food onthese fertile
meadows will still plant my corn
| Stranger, the land is mine / under.
stand not these paper rights. gave
not my consent, when, as thou sayest,
these broad regions were purcha sed
for few baubles, Of my fathers
They could sell what was theirs they
could sell no more. How could
my father sell that which the Great
Spirit sent me into the world to live
upon : They knew not what they did.
The stranger came, timid suppliant
few and feeble,an asked to lie down
on the red mans bear-skin, and warm
himself at the red man's fire, and have
little piece of land, TO raise corn for
his woman and children. And now
he is become strong, and mighty, and
bold, and spreads cut his parchment
over the whole, and says, it is NINE
Slanger there is not room for US both
The Great Spirit has not made US to
live together. There is poison 10 the
white mans cup /; the whileman's dog
barks at The red mans heels. II l
/ should leave the land of my fathers,
( whittier shall fly : Shall 60 TO the
South, and dwell among the graves Of
The Pequois 7 Shall | wander to the
West 9-the fierce Mohawk. the man
eater, is my foe. Shall | fly TO the
East, the great water is before me-
No, stranger, here 1 have lived, and
here will | die; and ii here thou abb
dest, there is eternal war between me
and thee. Thou hast taught me thy
arts of destruction for that alone l
thank thee and now take heed TO
thy steps, the red man is thy foe. When
thou goest forth by day, my bullet shall
whistle by thee when thou Hest down
at night, my knife is atthy throat. The
MONDAY sun shall not discover thy en-
emy and the darkness of midnight shall
not protect thy rest. Thou shalt plant in
terror & l will reap in blood; thou shalt
SOW the earth with corn, & | will slrew
it with ashes thou shalt go forth with
the sickle, and will follow after with
the scalping-knife thou shalt build,
81 l will burn, till the white man or the
Indian shall cease from the land
Go thy way for this time 10 safety,
but remember, stranger, there is elern-
al war between one and thee 10
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