The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1847-05-22

sands He went soon after his arrival, to the
city of Albany, NOT the unciviliZed savage
not with any of those marks which bespoke u
birth in the torest-but possessing Il fine COM
manding figure, an expressive countenance,
y an intelligent eye,with u fuce scarcely indi-
cative ofthe race from which he descended
He presented at this period an interesting spec
tacle, u child of the wilderness was beheid IL
bout to return to the home of his torefathers,
having received the advantages Of cultva-
ted mind, and on his way to impart the ben=
Gifts which civilization had given him, TO the
nation that owned him. Shortly after his ar
rival at Albany, where he visited in the first
families, he took advantage of Coy, Clinton's
journey 10 Fort StanwiX TO make n treaty
with the Indians, to return TO his tribe. On
the route Orsaqutte amused the company by
his powers on several instruments of music;
at Fort Stanwix, after long absence he found
himself again with the companions ofhis ear
ly days, who saw and recognized HMM
short,he was warmly welcomed TO his old
home and his blanket.
| But what occurred soon after his reception
led to the anticipation of an unsuccessful end
/ to the project: for the Oneidas, as if they
could NOT acknowledge Orsaqustte alfred in
his foreign garb, and thinking he had assum-
ed it out ofshame for the habilments of his
ancestors, tore it from him, daubed his face
with painc, and clothed him in their own UNI
Gouth garments. The reformed savage was
taken back again to his native barbarlty, and
! if to complete the climax of degradation to n
mind Just susceptible of its own powers, was
married to a squuw. From this day he was
no longer the accomplished Indian, by whom
every wish philanthropy was expected TO
be realized. From that day Orsaquette was
agaiu an inmate ofthe forest, he was once
more buried in an original obscurity-hs ma
ton only viewed him as an equal; his superb
GRITTY acquired from instruction. which il was
expected would excite the emulation of all a
round him, became of no effect: Orsaquette
was losE His moral perdtion began from
the hour he left Fort Stanwix. Scarcely
three months had transpired, before inIem-
perance had marked him for a victim, and
soon hurried him into the grave; and as if the
very transition had deadened all the finer
feelings of bis nature, the picture given him by
, Lafagette-the very picture of his heneiactor
and friend he parted with for a gallon otTum!
To him the short lived pleasures of this
world passed like fleeing dreams One day
u civilized Indian, proud ofthe awakened fac
ulres ofhis mind--the next, an unreCogniZed
wreck othis former self
The above particulars we publish, not 10
discourage the philanthropic from benevolent
eXertions in the cause of civilization, bur as
an instance little known of the kindness of
: Lafayette, and The Unborn predictions OF ouT
Indians for their original habits In addition
to this instance of the uncomfortable fond
ness of the savage for his forest life, the read
er will spontaneously call TO mind the
beautiful poem of Fireman.. giving the his
tory of the college-bred beginning
"From SusquehannU's utmost springs,
Where savage tribes pursue their game,
His blanket tied with yellow strings,
A shepherd of the forest came"