The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-09-16
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YOUNG KING HTH00D.
BY Z. FoxToE,
author Of " Prsmicss"
CHAPTER vrlI-conclaaed.
BY Z. FoxToE,
author Of I" Prsmicss.'

CHAPTER vIII-Concloded.
al take no white mans hand said imp
ana. speaking in English, and rapidly and dis
,ipctly. though with marked Indian accent
e hale TIE white man Whyf I had wide
plains aud rivers of beasts and birds, fshes and
roots. said not to the white man, Come, bu,
when he came, did not say, Go. Whehhs wa
hungry and cold, gave him skins and food
When he was strong, he took them away from
me. When he was weak, / let him hunt on my
prairies. When be was strong, he said, Go
away; you shall not come here 80 ~
:" hate the white man I, Why7 4 had many
wives, but one loved best. found q white
sauaw lost in the woods. She sat not down, like
The red squsw, cheerful to die, bat held out her
hands to UmPqua, and wept. despised her
bat mercied her, too, and gave her sweet Der.
res to eat, and led her to my lodge, and
said to my best wife, Get up from my best
skin, for the white equaw is a guest, and ID
weary We led her many days. When her
people came, asking her, 1 gave her up safe.
While hunted, the white man stole my best
wife. She cried to my son as he passed. The
boy ran to his mother. The white man shot
him dead.
81 hate the white mani Why2 Two more
sons had. The diggers (miners) come and
say, They have killed white man We will
have them to kill say, No, they have not
killed. Your blue-coat chief at the strong
house, be say, No, you shall not have them to
kill They say to him, Then We kill you | ,
Then he say, Kill away, if you can kill-me
FIRST, and them afterl' At last, all the white
men, they say together, Let us have them, to
try whether they have killed; and, if they have
not, let them come back all safe.' So / say,
All right for / know they have not killed !;
50 the boys go with soldiers. They are tried |;
they have not killed. Take them back safe, ,
say the law chief. As they corae they are
killed. Then say, hate the white man 1
will live beside him no more. 1 will 60 to the
wild bears and eagles. They are kinder and
truer.' Then the white man say, 1t is war |
Umpqua is bad. He will kill us. Hunt him
out
my ledge alone far up on the high, cold noun.
tain. say to my sick and my old, my women,
my babies, Here you shall rest, safe and warm !;
for who wants the bare bleak mountain, but
bears and eagles aud Umpqua? This we will
hsVe TO ourselves, better than plains with bad
neighbours By night, the bad Bostons awake
US, with pistols and rifles. fight them. They
run, and come back with thundergun and
lightning balls fe- 80 e.-ous -lvaov. rhsy
hunt my sick and old, my squaws and my ba-
bes, in the cold and dark, from steep slippery
mountain to mountain. They SILVER, they STUN.
bic, they sicken, they stsrve, they die, too fast.
So say, Let Us now have peacel' Bat the
Bostons say, You are bad. You love us not.
You have killed MS too many we must chas.
iise you. We will frighten you first They
cannot make Umpqua afraid ! But 1 90 to the
blue-coat chief and say, Only let them not
hurt the women and babies we hurt not your
women and babies The bad Bostops catch on
a high rock one of my sick squaws, with two
pspooses. Some SOY, Hurt them not Some
shoot. She fall. My babies brains are spill,
on the stones.
al hate the white mani Whyf / have left YET
one daughter. When am great, she is beautiful
in her skins, and beads, and feathers; and every
young chief come from far, and say, Give her to
me- But say No; love her too we'll she
may not leave my country And every young
chief come from near, and say, Give her To
me;' but say No; love her too we'll she
may not leave my LODGE Her beautiful robes
gone; her beautiful face going. She is tired,
aud cannot rest; she is hungry and faint, and
have often nothing to give her. Then / say
Go; sleep safe in the white squaw's house.
and eat her bread. Old Umpqua can wander
but for girls it is bad. am sad, but she is safe
The white squaw sick. She moan, Il want
water The girl say, / go to the spring.
Sac say, Go not the Bostons will catch you.
My girl say, No, can run too fast The,
see her. They call her. She stop not. The
shoot. She drop dead"
Can all this that he says be true?" erie
Herman, turning to Mr.. Grubhe, who had en-
tered with the crowd which at the outcries o
Weahwashtay had instantly filled the lodge.
I'D like to know what can't be true that
too bad, in VOC of the depravity of our falle
natur, sir" replied the cid man, wiping hi
nose great deal between pity and indign,
ton.
Another cry from Weahwashsay recalle
their attention to the poor outcast. His ia
cd N
hands were cropping in the air, as if seekir
some friendly ones to grasp them, again,
last, to lead him on his last, long journe
With wall upon vail, Weahwashtay clasped the
In her own and then, as if seized with b
death pangs, but determined, chief to 4
last gasp, to yield to them only at his ov
time and pleasure, be, swaying to and fro, We
down and down, kneeling first on one kne
and then on both, then sitting, and then slo
ly falling backwards, like q man literally sir
log by inches into his grave. After few n
nents, he recovered himself enough to spe
sgsln, though in an altered tone:
"All gone. Breath gone. Heart gor
umPqua gone. Weahwashtay, am not fit
dier
This appeal was answered by Weahwashta,
instantly, In the midst of her tears and sol
heaping together the finest clothes in the lods
and even snatching from her own dress, a
that Of her unressting husband, their mt
precious ornaments, to clothe and deck I
lean, scarry, half naked form before h
ompqua received her cares with evident sat
faction; and even assisted her in them, feeb
from time to time, so far as his weakness q
the sturor which was stealing upon him wo,
permit
His appeal was answered also by Mr.. Grub