The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1851-08-06

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, which was echoed by his warriors, Milan
tonimoh rushed upon him. Uncas, taking
advantage Of his exulting eagerness, stop
ped; caught his descending axe upon th'
edge of his own,. closed with him, lifted
him from his feet, and hurled him bodily
10 the ground where he lay senseless.
A shout Of triumph rose from the party
of victorious warriors, and yell of rage
and modification burst from the defeated
Narragansetts. With one impulse, they
launched their spears against the Mohea
gans, and shouting their war-cry, "Nar
RAP descended the hill like tempest
The Moheagans met them half way, and
the sixty warriors were mingled in a
fierce and bloody melee. A score Of the
Naragansetts were slain on the spot, and
nearly the same number Of Moheagans
either killed or wounded. They had won
the field, and were about to pursue the fu,
gitives, when the cry of thousand war.
riors filled the air, and the surrounding
forests became alive with the treacherous
army of Narragansetts, whom Miantoni.
moh had left in the forests, while he adj
vanced to meet Uncas, with orders to come
to his aid if he should be defeated. .,4s.
When they swept down upon the scene
Of contest, shouting their war-cry, UEcas.
Notwithstanding his Wounds. rallied the
remnant of his party, and retreated toward
his boats. He reached them before they
could surround him, and with only seven
warriors, all of whom were wounded more
or less, he soon got beyond the reach Of
their arrows, which flew in dark clouds
from the shore. Is ,aief6 74 4.t
Miantonimoh was borne from the ground
by his people. In few weeks, under the
careful nursing Of Nelepe, who forgot his
cruelty in sympathy for his sufferings, he
was able once more to take the field
Burning with shame at his defeat, and
breathing vengeance against the victorious
Moheagan, he assembled his warriors,
fired their passions by an artful speech,
and at the head of nine hundred of his
best fighting men, secretly marched to fall
upon Uncas in his Indian capital. gl
Nelepe learned the destination of the
expedition from the faithful Pequot, who
had first guided Onecho to her lodge, and
sent him forward with an epistle to inform
Onecho of her fathers design san Epis.
tie! | wonder what sort of an epistle an
Indian belle would write!" asks some fair
maiden with laughing blue eyes. She
shall be grati6ed. When Nelepe learned
from the Pequot the object of the expedi-
ton, she stripped scroll of silvery bark
from the birch, and spreading it upon the
floor Of her lodge, she got on her knees,
and with the charred end of twig, drew
rapidly and not unskilfully, the figure Of a
hawk in full flight against an eagle, perch
ed, with folded pinions, on branch. In
the rear of the hawk she drew flight of
arrow-heads, all pointed and converging
towards the eagle. Beneath she drew
disc to represent the sun, and crescent
to represent the moon. She rolled the sill
very billet upon the twig, and bade the In
dian ontstrip the wind in bearing it to
Onecho. This hieroglyphical note being
interpreted, might read as follows: "Un-
cas- is in danger. My father aims at his
life. He approaches him with many war
riors. In day and a night he will at.
tack you"
Onecho was returning from the chase,
when he received the scroll, and hastened
with the tidings to Uncas, who forthwith
called q council Of his chiefs, and laid the
information before Them. ,s,.s 4,..
show did the news comet" asked a
suspicious old brave.
"Aye, how should Onecho know this?"
added another. as, ai,..s.s,,
"'Tis whispered he is friendly to the
Narragansetts," growled a.srrd.
"Onecho," demanded Ufe as Of his son,
who sat at his feet, show learned you
these tidingsl'
"Nelepe," replied the young man in
genuously.
"He seeks her to wife," said the old
brave. os N S1 t,sl -. .,ts,,g.,,....4
"The pure blood Of the Moheagan, may
never mingle with the thick puddle in the
veins of the Narragansett, "said the Sec
ond speaker.
"Except in the fight, on the ground"
continued the third" ."~a'2 3ss'ss9s 7a+
v Uncas waved his hand to command
silence. @' wv 7 ff's'sup,.% ~,
"Onecho," he asked with calm sereni-
ty, ..lovs you the young Eyas Of the MAJ
ragansetts?" ~ 'he
4 VYes." "
"Forget her." he said with the manner
Of one who feels that to speak is to be
obeyed. .s'. '%s 81 =
..Never, father" replied the young
warrior, firmly, but respectfully. e
aShe shall then die.'' was the calm, de-
termined reply Of the stern saohem.
Il Onecho bent his head in silence; but his
dark eyes glowed with resentment, Uncas
and his council, after celebrating on the
course to pursue in this emergency, rode
up and prepared to leave the lodge to arm
themselves.
1--WE must not permit them to enter the
Village" said Uncas as they were depart