Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-04-20
From Ned Bisnthne's Oarsl
Brandl's Descent upon Mamakating.
A LEGEND OF THE REVOLUTION. :
BY OTIS CARMICHAEL.

airy times OF young America when, where
now are large and fourishing villages, then
was only here and there a rudely con-
strucied block house, with its attendant
clusters of primitive hamlets: when, where
now is checringly heard the songs of peace
and conteniment, then rang forth, shril and
heart-appealing, the war-whoop of the en-
sanguned savage, the agonized means of
the tortured settler, and The soul-shrlling
shrleks of The wounded and dying-back TO
| these times, wild and bloody though they
were, reader, we would, in imagination.
carry thee.
Induced TO participate in the hostilties
then recently commenced between our
country and Great Britain by an imagined
wrong, lavish besowment of British gold,
and the large bounty then offered by the
emmissaries of "philan,hropic" England,
for every scalp of American man, woman
or child-an act which, fiendsh and dabol-
ical in the extreme, will forever consign the
memory of its originators to deepest inla.
my and disgrace. and for which we cannot
but believe they received, at the hand of
the God of battles, deep and condign pun
shment-the half-breed Brandt, have or
ganized band of some four hundred saw
ages, and no less savage tories, at length
yelled forth the signal war.whoop, and, like
the breath of the destroying angel, then
swept down, with his fiendish horde, upon
the richest, and yet most vulnerable, of our
frontier settlement.
Blinded TO every consideration of Justice
~ hx- Drtti H.. H.
full agents to feelings of phrenzied hatred
against the Americans and their holy cause;
cunning and well skilled in the tactics of
war; cruel and unrelenting, the odored
cheflain of the Mohawks-such was
BRANDT-a being at the mention of whose
name, even now, the eye CLEANS with deep
est hatred, and the hearts blood curdles.-
Yet part of the early life of that strange
man was spent within the classic halls of
Dartmouth: aye, there was his genius more
fully developed, and here was il that he re-
ceived an education we'll calculated to fit
him for better and far higher sphere than
that on which he was, ere long, destined so
Economically to enter.
Loud and deep rang the tocsin of war
through the land-calling the patriot to
arms, and the brave TO battle. Hurrying
TO his wildwood haunts, to the rendezvous
Of his tribe, Brandt remained, until met by
the scheming British agents, undecided as
to which cause he should espouse. British
gold, however. triumphed; and now, seve-
raj months from the commencement of his
sanguihary career, fresh from the heart
sickening massacre of Wyoming, haIting
among the crags and peaks Of old Shaw
angunk, with his eager band around him,
he stood, at break of day, calmly contem-
plating the beautiful scene spread out be-
fore hlm--a scene ere long to be desecrated
by the enactmen:s of ruthless war;
|! is morning: and, as the day king diff
fuses abroad his bright, warm rays, from
The eastern horizon, the birds carol sweet
Iy, and fit, like meieors, through the UNI
brageous foliage.
1t is morning: and as Brandt gazed below
him, upon that rude block>house, with the
few buildings scattered around it, whence,
unaware OF the presence in their neghbor-
hood of so formidable foe, most of the
men had gone forth to their daily avoca-
tons, his eyes glsened brightly. and he
uttered low, chuckling laugh. Aye, he
laughed--ldughed at the scenes of misery,
lndiscriminale bulchery and woe ere long
to be brulally enacted. /! was the laugh
of demon, thirsting for human blood.
Yet up, away up among the obscure re-
cesses of that mans heart, surrounded al
most by the dark mazes of the baser pas
sions, was, as it were, small door; and on
lhat door. in scarcely perceptibIe letters,
was written the word MERCY. Aye, bru-
al and thurman, though at times ne was,
there yet survived within him the principle
of mercy, which, like the wild rose, still
blnomed beautifully, despite surrounding
ihOrns and brlars!
The harvest was ready, and 10, the
reapers camel
Down, down, stealIhily. as the wolf ap-
preaching the shepherd, came Brandt, upon
tie unsuspecting and unprepared settlers Of
Mamak ating, with his horde of savage de-
mons. AS they came still nearer TO the
little settlement, man at work in an ada
cent corn field suddenly discovered them,
and, like a startled deer, bounded forth
through the forest in an opposite direction.
fie was Instantly pursued by four Indians,
all of whom, except one, he succeeded IN
ourunning. This one, however, tall and
athletic, was was the swiftest runner of his
tribe. and, as he now started forth with re-
newed energy, in the race, all at once paus-
ed, to ascertain the result.
On, on they rushed, the pursuer and the
pursued. Pausing suddenly in his head
long career. the Indian hurled his toma~
hawk. Fortunately, however, il glided
harmessly by the really hard-pressed set
Tier, who, perceiving The comparative
equality on which they now stood, in re-
gard to arms; with the fierceness of tiger
at bay, suddenly turned upon and graPpled
with his brawny pursuer. Lie or death
depended upon the issue. They were both
apparently equal in strength; and the only
advantage the Indian seemed TO possess over
his adversary was long. and glittering
knife, which the settler slrove 6ercely to
Obtain. For time, victory seemed Coubt-
fuI now il favored The Indian, and now the
settler!
at length, however, obtaining, by an
artful movement, the upper hand, the In
dian poised his knife and the settlers death
seemed inevitable. With one mighty
HI.