The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1852-07-28

Suhieeh' oHaWnee Warrlor, who had I'M
bibed bitter, undying hostility to the
Americans. Brave, temperate, scorning
a lie, and despising the spoils of war, he
fought to restore his race to their ancient
rights and power. Unable to cope with
the Americans alone, he gladly awaited
himself of our declaration of war to form
an alliance with the British. Lifted by
native genius above the vices of savages,
he also exhibited greatness of intellect,
and loftiness of character, which, in civii-
zed life, would have led to the highest re-
nown. Despising the petty rivalries of
tribes and chiefs, he becaas-absorbed in
tgrand idea of uniting all the Indian
4 IN. one great and desperate struggle
l0r mastery with the whites. He had sue
tled in, carving out his scheme, to a
egfeat eSfent throughout the North and
west. Of erect, athletic frame, noble, COM
manding appearance, with the air Of a
king, and the eloqucncc of Demosthcncs
when rousing the Greeks to arms against
Philip, he went from tribe to tribe electri-
fyng them with his appeals, and rousing
them TO madness by his fiery dcnunciations
against their opprcssors. His brothcr,thc
prophet, accompanied him-a dark, sub
tie, cunning impostor, to whose tricks Tc-
cumsch submitted for while, because they
toilcd the hatred and deceit of rival chiefs.
As he arose before his savage audiences,
his imposing manner created feeling of
awe; out when he kindlcd with his great
subject, he seemed like one inspired. His
eye flashed fire, his swarthy bosom hcavcd
and swelIed with imprisoned passion, his
whole form dilated with excitement, and
his strong untutorcd soul poured forth in
cloqucncc, wild, headlong, and rcsistlcss as
the mountain torrent. Thoughts, image
ry leapcd from his lips in such life and
vivldness that the stOicism Of the Indian
vanished before it, and his statue-like face
CLEANED with passion. The people he
always carried with him; but the cl,iefS,
who feared his power over their followers,
often thwartcd his plans. When not ad-
dressing the clans, he was reserved, cold.
and naughty. His withcring sarcasm,
when Proctor proposed to retreat from
Maiden; his reply to theintcrprctcr, who,
offering him n chair in the presence of
Harrison, said "Iour father wishes YOU
to be seated; :" "My father, the sun IS
my father, and the earth my mother" as
he stretched himself proudly on the ground
reveal nature conscious Of his greatness,
and scorning the distinctions which the
white man arrogatcd to himself.
After the massacre at Frcnchtown, he
took his brother, and went South to the
Creeks, to complete his plan of a general
alliance The journey Of nearly thou
sand miles through tho wilderness Of these
two brotlfeis.-the discussion of their deep
laid scheme at night around their solitary
p-firc,-thc day-drcams of Tccumsch,
as gorgeous as ever fitted through the
imagination of a C1sar,-thc savage en-
pirc he would form, and the greatness he
would restore to his dcspised race, would
make grand epic. PathlcSs mountains
and gloomy swamps were travcrscd; deep
rivers swan, and WEAKNESS and toll en-
durcd by this savage chieftain, not for
sPoils or revenge, but to carry out great
idea. There is rude, Tuscan grandeur
about him, rs he thus moves through the
western wilderness impellcd by high
purposc,--a barbaric splcndour thrown
about even the mercilcss measures he
means to adopt, 10y the great moral
scheme to which they are to bc subject.
His combinations exhibited the consum-
mate general. While England occupied
us along the sca-coast, he was to sweep in
one vast scmi-circlc from Michilimackinac
to Florida upon the scattered settlements.
Fires were to be kindled North, South and
West, to burn towards the centre, while
civilized warfare should d5solate the east
crn slope of the Allcghcnics. Tecumsch
had seen Hull surrender, helped to cut to
pieces n part of Harrison's army, and
drive back the remainder. His prospects
were Frightening, and with this glorious
news to back his burning eloqucncc, he
had no doubt Of exciting the Southern
tribes to war. The Chickasaws and
Choctaws in Mississippi numbered over
thirty thousand; the Greeks twenty-five
thousand, while south of them dwct the
large and warlike tribe of the Seminoles.
His chief mission was to the Creeks, from
whom, on his mothers side, he sprung.
This powerful clan stretched from the
southern borders of Tennessee to Florida.
lIc sun III lOOhcb OH lO IHifef,
richer land than the country they held.
Some Of them had learned the arts of ci
vilization, and, hitherto, had evinccd a
friendly disposition towards the wbites.--
But British influence working through the
! Spanish authorities in Florida, had already
prepared them for Tccumseh's visit. An
alliance, offensive and defensive, had been
formed between England and Spain; and
the armies ofthe former were then in the
Peninsula endeavoring to wrest the throne
from Bonaparte. The latter, therefore, was
bound to assist her ally OH this continent,
and lend their aid to exciting the South
em Indians to hostility. But for this,
Tecumseh, with all his eloquence, might
have failed. Cooperating with the Brit
ish agents in Florida, as he had done with
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