New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-11-05

ton oi some opposite text 81 scripture, IN "hich
they lkcned themselves unto the favored nation.
whose mission il was to attack end extirpste IDOL
airy. The resolutions Of meeting holden in those
primitive times Of pstfiarchal simplicity, at some
town IN Connecticut are conclusive Of the Divine
right" By which Anglo Ssxondom Of that day sp.
propriated the lands Of the deienceless. IT was
voted LIST. That the Earth is the Lords, and the
funness thereof "a, That The Lord has given it
t. His Saints Sd, That We are His Saints"
By what more simple logic could the inevitable
conclusion be arrived al Tho Indian Of that time
as well as the Mexican Of this, could no more doubt
its justice than that
ARTILLERY aud edge tools
Were 10 only engines ~ ssso sOus
Modern Concord at the time Of which / speak
had no more being than name in New Hampshire
BY commission which passed the Great Seal 10
the year 1879 the towns OF Portsmouth, Dover, Elk
eter aud Hampton and all other lands extending
from three miles to the northward Of the River
Mernmac and Of any and every part thereof, TO the
province OF Maine were declared 10 constitute the
Province OF New Hampshire and though this
tempated certainly jurisdiction over territory OF
which Concord is constituted the Indian still re-
NAMED de fact0, as be was dc Jare lord paramount
Of the soil Yet he was insensbly but Treslstiby
driven farther toward the Winnepsiogee Lake the
Penaccoks whom the bullet or the sword Of the
English had spared, fell before more deadly
agent Of determination which the ColonIsts as re
morselessly avsiled themselves of--the ever fatal
fire water
Step by step then Wonoanset fearful alike of
the enmity or friendship OF the English, withdrew
from the hunting grounds around Penacook and the
everrevered graves Of bis ancestors. He saw the
increase of the English and diminution Of Lis own
people and mindful Of his fathers advice,
deayored to avoid as much as in him was possible
the inevitable result OF too close contact
Thirteen years had nearly passed by since the
unjustable seizure of the four hundred Indians by
Major Waldron, at COcheco, when a conspiracy, or
confederacy, was entered into between the tribes
of Penacook and Pequawket,- incited thereto by
the emssares and promises Of 3 aron de Castinc,-
and the strange Indians who, escaping from the
slaughter the Wampanoags, dwet among them.
To avenge themselves upon Major Waldron was
the ostensble purpose of the movement-ndis-
eliminate plumber and carnage, as much perhaps
the real motive.
tribe, resisted the rising and took no part therein
The young men mostly rallied round Hagkins
another sachem, and an ambitious, cruel and crafty
warrior, aud rushed to the fight
OF this Indian instruction the principal charac-
teristics were the murder of Col. Waldron under
circumstance Of peculiar atrocty (which | shall not
relate, as they are Incorporated in every history oil
New Hampshire the establishment of practice
BY the Indians of selling their cap,ives to the
French instead Of numbering and scalping them
the ravage and burning Of the Indian settlement at
Ponacook-the defeat of two companies OF English
at Wheelwrights Pond in Lee-snd, | may add.
the general but brief success OF the French and In
dams An attempt was made by the Cooniss to
capture Quebec, which proved a miserable ebor-
ton; the pear was not yet ripe
Nearly six hundred English killed in this
war, beside the captured and wounded and the
loss tell principally upon New Hampshire. The war
lasted about ten years aud ceased with the Peace
of Ryswck. 1t is generally called King Williams
War; William Prince Of Orange, being at that time
King of England.
The PenacOok race OF Indians had attained It's
full glory aud had in fact already eliminated from
the Equator, even under Passaconaway. He saw
and lamentcd but could not oppose its decadence
After him, it fastened rapidly to extinction. But
once after King Williams War does il appear IN
the history of New Hampshire as distinct tribe ,
and then in the war with the French and Indians,
called Queen Annes War. In the fourth Indian
war Lovewells War as it is sometimes called
they make no appearance. They had became dis
integrated scattered and merged in other tribes by
the middle OF the last century. Like the mist OF
the morning before the ascending sun, had they
melted away on the advance OF the white man.
Standing on the grave of PAssACOnAwAY which
lies on the bank OF the river that washed his do
main some two miles beyond modern Concord, one
evening IN August last, with the moon" sweet
regent of the sky lending soitened light to
every object around to river to forest and to PLAIN
provoking aud encouraging meditation-while at
no far distance the many twinkling lights OF the
busting and active town appeared, and the scream
OF the stesm.whistle or the rumbling sound OF the
cars could be distinctly heard, did not forbear to
muse upon the mighty changes of one hundred
wears Nor, while acknowledged and wondered
at the immense and all but incredible progress
made by our country in SO short time hesitate 10
lament the untimely fate of a whole race OF men
upon whose extinction we build our greatness -
Nor could drive away the unwelcome and most
obstinate thought that to our progress too a limit
may have been assigned that to us an lrrever'i'
bic decree may have determined 81 thus lar shall
thou 70 and no father and that having attained
an eminence unparalleled in mans history we might
he destined to encounter fall proportiouaby ter
rible Marius sitting amid the ruins OF carthage
and musing over the instability Of human greatness
was forced as by a species Of mental daguerreo'
type upon my mind
Something Of modern Penacook may write IN
my next
CHERoxEE NATIoN-The National Council has
chosen ID. NJ. FOREMAN Chief Justice Of the Supreme
Court for the four yesrs aud Richard Taylor Tho
mas Foreman and stephen Foreman Executive Cosn-
sellers for two years
npfTfsu OUTRAGE AMERICAN SOIL.-Ihe 81.