Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-12-14

Delawares, and so on; but tine Great
Spirit intended Il IS the property OF Us
all. Our fathers tell US, that we have
no business on the Wabash, the land
belongs to other tribes, but the Great
shefe we will stay"
ItMasn not in the power of General
Harrison to comply with the chiefs
desire. He could do nothing but refer
the matter to Presideu5 jefferson. al
SWELL said Tecumseh, "as the great
chief is todeterInine the matter, ! hops
the Great Spirit viii put sense enough
into his bead TO induce him to give iuF
thisiand,@ Ifis true, he is so far off he
wisl-not be injured by the war; he may
sit still in his town, and drink his wine,
wliilstyeu and I have to fight 1t out -
And so It proved. Z All his life Te.
cumseh had striven IN vain against the
white mans eneroachTnents. Born in
Ohio. near where XeHia now stands,
he was a lad of twelve when a thOns
and Kentuckians burnt the principal
town of his tribe, and laid waste then
fields. Then the tribe removed to an
Iotfier situation, from which they were
again compelled to retire. And now,
when MFR: Jefferson began to take
measures for opening all the Ohio Val.
lev 70 White settlers, Tecumseh saw
that there. was no help for his people
except in combined resistance. :
For four years after this talk with
General Harrison, he travelled from
tribe 70 tribe, endeayoring to enlist in
his schemesall the Indians in the valley
of the Mississippi. He would have
given far more trouble than he did
this Moseslof the Indian tribes-if he
had not have had a brother Aaron,
through whom he endeavored to oper
ate upon the superstitious terrOrs OF the
Indians. This prophet" like Others
of his kind, had system in which good
morals and nonsensical doctrine were
Icuriously mingled. He told the Indians,
that they must return to the ways OF
their fathers. No more whisky; nc
more gunpowder and muskets; no
more intermarriage with the whites:
no more beating of wives or neglect OF
children. But along with advice, he
gHvD uttc-anee- 20 a thousand prepOS-
ferrous falsehoods, and praeticed an
sorts of incantations and foolish seere-
monies. Under his influence, there
was great revival of hostility to
witchcraft and if any opposed his
claims. he denounced him as wizard,
and had him burnt alive. Old wonaah
and venerable chiefs were burned, and
the Indians .were gradually wrought
up to a delirinm of fanatieal devotion.
The prophet was the ruin of the
scheme. lust as Aaron, while Moses
was gone up into. the mount, led the
Israeiftes astray, SO did this Indian
priest. while Tecumseh was absent
upon one of his tours through the
south. precipitate the war by Alta king
General Harrison iii the camp, The
disastrous battle Of TippecaGoe frtlstra-
ted Feeafnsehis plan, and he would
have probably retired beyond the Mis-
sissippi, but for the war of 1872, which
began in the following year Hhemo-
Ihent he heard of the war. his. resolu-
ton was taken. He went to Canadas
offered his services to the British. re-
eeiyed a commission as Brigadier-
General, and saw with exultation, the
surrender of Detroit. + fle9 I.ltiT
He, fell. as all the world knows tire
following year, at the battle of the