The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1851-07-10

manhood. He was at this time thirty light
years old; light and graceful in form ;-s' the.
handsomest, best-looking, most lively gentle
man. she had ever seen, wrote lady who was
an eyewitness of the ceremony. He addressed
them in their own language; the topics were
few and simple; and the beauty of his ideas
would compensate with such audience for
the minor errors of diction.
The Great Spirit, he said who ruled in the
heaven to which good men go after death, who
made them and him out of nothing, and who
knew every secret thought that was in the
heart of white man and red man, knew that he
| and his children had a strong desire to live in
peace to be their friends, to do no wrong, but
to serve them in every way to the extent OF
their power. As the Great Spirit was the COM
mon Father of all, he wished them to live to-
gether not merely as brothers, as the children
of a common parent, but as if they were joined
with one hand, one heart, one body, together;
that if i'll was done to one, all would suffer; if
! good was done to any, all would gain. He and
! his children, he went on to say, never used the
rife or trusted to the sword; they met the red
men the broad path of good faith and good
| will. They intended to do no harm and had no
| fear in their hearts. They believed that their
brothers of the red face were just and they
were prepared to trust in their friendship He
then unfolded the writing of the treaty of
friendship aud explained its clauses after
the other. 1t recited that from that day the
children of Onas and the nations of the Lenni
Lenape should be brothers to each other-that
all paths should be free and open-that the
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red men, and the doors of the red men should
! be open to the white men-that the children of
/ Onas should not believe any false reports of the
| Lenni Lenape, nor the Lenni Lenape of the
| children Of Onas but should come and see for
! themselves as brothers to brothers, and bury
such false reports in the bottomless pit-that if
| the Christians should hear of anything likely
| to be of hurt to the Indians, the Indians
hear anything likely TO harm the Christians,
they should run, like true friends, and let the
other know-that if any Of Onas were to
do any harm to any red skin, or any red skin
were to do harm to a son of Onas, the sufferer
should not offer to right himself, but should
complain to the chiefs and to Onas, that justice
might be declared by twelve honest men, and
the wrong buried in pit with no bottom-that
the Lenni Lenape should assist the white men,
and the white men should assist the Lenni Le-
nape, against all such as would disturb them or
do them hurt-and lastly, that both Christians
and Indians should tell their children of this
league and chain of friendship, that it should
grow stronger and stronger, and be kept bright
and clean, without rust or spot, while the wa
ters ran down the creeks and rivers, and while
the sun and moon and stars endured
He then laid the scroll on the ground. What
King Taminent replied is not known, except
that in substance he was favorable to the views
! of Penn. The sachems received his proposal
, with decent gravity, and accepted it for them
selves and for their children. No oaths, no
seals, official mummeries were used; the
treaty was ratified on both sides with yea,-the
only one, says Voltaire, that the world has
known, never sworn to and never broken.
This scene remained to the two races who
! were witnesses and actors in it, an inheritance
of good will and honorable pride for an entire
g century. From year to year, says the venerable
historian of the Six Nations, Heckewelder, the
sachems assembled their children in the woods
in a shady spot as like they could find to
that in which the great Onas had conferred with
them, when they would spread out his words
or speeches on blanket clean piece of barl
and repeat the whole again and again to thei,
great satisfaction.
In few years Penn, going beyond the seas
and never returning, became to them sort o.
mythical parsonage, they not only held hi
> memory in great veneration, but treated tn,
, whole body of white men with more kindnes
for his sake. To be Q follower of Onas was a
all times a passport to their protection anc
hospitality.
Nor have his own countrymen been less in
a debted or less grateful to the Great Treaty. II
it, and to the strictness with which its provision
were maintained by Penn, is owing that striking
q fact recorded by Bancroft: that while ever.
: colony iu the New World was visited by the hor
f rors of Indian warefare, no drop of Quake
: blood was ever shed by red man in Pennsylva
MIA.
. tits humiliating to the pride of the white maj
: to think that one of his race should have beel
n the first to break this noble league of peace
s Forty years after the famous treaty, and fv
r years after the death of Onas, one Of his un
n worthy children murdered the first red man VIII
g lost his life in Pennsylvania The deed wa
:, attended with circumstances of unusual attro
It city; but it shows in striking light the powc
T of noble sentiment, that the Indians themselve