Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1837-02-11
From the New fork Commercial ADVERTISE.
RED PIPE STONE.
On the Coteau Ia Prairie, 9ep4. l69O.

Since the date ofm last letter (which was
written IN a very strange place and on the
very rock where the .sGreat Spirit stood when
he created the first red man, and where he
also s1stood some centuries aiterward, and
consecrated the pipe Of peace, by taking il
from the rock, and smoking it to the congre-
gated nations that were assembled about him.
/ have been banqueting and surfeiting-my
body on buffalo meat and my mind on the
rich legends Of this followed ground. IiE
ted up to the Heavens on this stately mound,
whose tops is famed with air as light to
breathe as nitrous oxide gas:-and bivouack-
ed on its very ridge, (where nought on earth
is seen in distance save the thousand Il ecless
bushless, soecd1ess hills of grass & vivid green
which all around me vanish into an in1inity
of blue and azure,) have dwelt, and hero
dueH l. Stretched on our bear skins, my fel-
low-traveller and myself have here lain and
contemplated the splendid orrey Of the hea-
vens, with sad delight, that shook me in the
end with terror, have watched the swollen
sun showing down (too fast for time) upon tho
mystic HORIZON; whose line was lost except
as it was marked in blue across his blood red
disk. Thus have we lain, night after night,
(two congeniaI spirits, who could draw pleas
ure from sublime c"ntemplatIon.) and descan-
ted on our own in significance; we have close
" drawn our buffalo robes about us-talking
projects that had failed-of the painful steps
we had to retrace to reach our own dear ma
tive land again; we have sighed in the m,elan-
choly of twilight when the busy winds were
breathing their last; the chill Of sable night
was closing around US, and naught Of noise
was head but the sivery tones If the bowling
wolf, and the subterraneous whistle Of the
busy gophirs who were ploughing and vaul-
ting the earth beneath US. Thus have we
L l. =: al Al
Of day, and in the next moment, in the East
behold her slice, nsajestyjutting up above the
horizon, with glories in her face that seemed
again to fiji the world with JOY and giadness.
We have seen her too, in all is sublimity,
the blackening thunder storm-the lghtning's
glare, and stood amidst the jarring thunder
bolts that tore and broke in awful rage about
Us, as they rolled over the smooth surface,
with naught but empty air to vent their VEN
,eance on. There sublime grandeur in
hese scenes as they are presented here,
There is a majesty in the very ground that
We tread upon, that inspires with awe and
everence; and he must have the soul Of
,rute, who could gallop his horse for a whole
lay over swells and terraces Of green that
Use continually ahead, and tantaIize where
ills, peep DER hills, and Alps on Alps arise)
vithout feeling has bosom swell with awe and
dmration and himself, rs well as his thought
flied up in sublmity when he rises the last
GRACE, and sweeps his eye over the vide
pread blue, and pictured 'nfinity that lies
round and beneath him.
Man feels here, and startles at the thrilling
ensation, the force of ilimitabie freedom; his
<,dv and his mind both seem to have enter
4 new element,-the former as free - the
r;nds II inhalee, and the other as expanded
nd infinite rs the boundIess imagery that =
bread in distance around him. Such - (aAd
:ebly told) the Cotas d. Pyanie. Isethere
ay after day, under the shade Of my Johe,
dding rapidly 10 the balk Of my manuec.pes.
rhich / already begin to fear The world Nm
Az are spun out too long. and with toe 49,
4 poetry about them. j said, n my SeM
etter. that the Indian muse dweit hsres 49,