The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-07-11

the Delaware tribe. Do not mistake
me, beg, for it is not color, nor line
age, that constitutes merit; and |
know not that he who claims affinity
10 the proper owners of this soil, has
not the best right to tread these hills
with the lightest conscience"
Mohegan turned solemnly TO the
speaker, and, with the peculiarly sig
nificant gestures of an Indian, he
spoke -
Father, you are not yet past the
summer of life your limbs are young.
Go to the highest hill and look around
you. All that you see, from the ris-
ing 10 the setting sun, from the head
waters of the great spring, to where
the crooked river is hid by the hills,
is his. He has Delaware blood and
his right is strong. But the brother
of Miquon is just: he will cut the
country in two parts, as the river cuts
the low-lands, and will say to the
Young Eagle Child of the Della
wares take it-keep it-and be a
chief in the land of your fathers"
ssNever % exclaimed the young hunt
err, with a vehemence that destroyed
the rapt attention, with which the di-
vine and his daughter were listening
to the earnest manner of the Indian.
''The wolf of the forest is not more
rapacious for his prey, than that man
is greedy for gold; and yet his GID
ings into wealth are as subtle as the
movements of a serpent"
"Forbesr, forbear, my son, for
bear" interrupted Mr.. Grant. "rhese
angry passions must be subdued. The
accidental injury you have received
from Judge Temple has heightened
the sense of your hereditary wrongs.
"Think you, sir, said the youth that
l believe the man a murderer?-Oh,
no he is too willy, too cowardly, for
such crime. But let him and his
daughter riot in their wealth-there
will day of retribution come. No,
no, no." he continued, more calmly
sit is for Mohegan to suspect him of
such a crime, as an intent to iniure
me: but the tri6e is not worth a sec
ond thought"
He seated himself and hid his face
between his hands, as they rested on
his knees.
cit is the hereditary violence of a
natives passion, my child" said Mr..
Grant, in low tone, to his daughter
who was clinging in terror to his arm.
s'He Is mixed with the blood of the
Indians, you have heard and neither
the refnements of education, nor the
advantages of our excellent liturgy,
have been able entirely to eradicate
the evil, But care and time will dc
much for him yet"
Although the divine spoke in q low
tone, yet what he uttered was heard
bv the youth, who raised his head,
with smile of indefinite expression,
and spoke more calmly.
F "Be not alarmed, Miss Grant, al
, either the wildness of my manner, OF
that of my dress. l have been car
RED away by passions, that shorl,''
struggle to repress. l must -. mint
it, with your father, r, mo blood !,
t my VEINS althG Ign I would not i'm
peach NY lineage willingly; for it i
: Eli that is left me to boast Of. Yes
G | am proud of my descent from
- Delaware chief, who was warrio
that eDnobled human nature. Oh
= Mohegan was his friend, and viii
/ vouch for his virtues"
i. The conversation lasted for NOR
: than an hour, when the visitors arose
s and, after exchanging good wishe
= with their entertainers, they departed
It at is marvellous, how long tn
/ propensities Of the savage continue i
II that remarkable race" said the goo
divine ''but if he perseveres, as h
e has commenced, his triumph shall ye
!, be complete. Remember me, m
IS child. to lend him the homily 'agains
d peril of idolatry, at his next visit"
It "Surely, father" cried the maiden
i ''you do not think him in danger c
C relapsing into the worship of his an
/, cesters p
d "No, my child" returned the clel
i gyman, laying his hand ON her flake
locks, and smiling; "his white bloc
d would prevent it; but there is such
:, thing as the idolatry of our passions.
a 1t was quite late on Christina
Of morning, before Elizabeth venture
1t from the house, with view to graft
!, her curiosity with glance by day
er light at the surrounding objects
IN Hardly had she arrived in the ope
ot air before she was surprised at til
voice of Mr.. Jones, crying aloud
y 'Merry Christmas, merry Chris
t, mas to you, cousin Bess. All, ha a
ID early riser, / see; but knew | shoul
IF steal a march on you. | never was
rs house yet, where didn't get I'll
lie first Christmas greeting on every sol
J. in it, man, woman, and child; gres
ID and small black, white, and yellow
d But stop minute, till l can just sli
on my coat; you are about to look ;
l. the Improvements, | see, which no OF
} can explain so well as l, who planne
|: them all.
e. Elizabeth turned, and observed hi
re cousin in his night-cap, with his hea
Sc ont of his bedroom window, whel
!; his zeal for pre-eminence, in detianC
y Of the weather, had impelled him
is thrust it. She laughed, and promise
l. to wait for his company.
5, "Come, Bessy, GOMEZ" he cried, {
hn nanno forth N Il rn ,.r;,,nc nnn of Il.