The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1901-09-19
CHAPTER Is.
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Angus and his comrades worked
their way by easy stages up the st.
Joseph to the lake, then across to the
otherSt Joseph and down to the Miami,
where his two Indian friends decided
that instead of returning to the Wa
bash they would follow the fortunes
of the sergeant, and SO to Detroit,
reaching his destination in October
after one of the most courageous jour
neys ever made by man. His report
to the commandment at Detroit, while
not encouraging to the British cause,
was highly valuable and in the hands
of a less stupid and arrogant man than
General Amherst, TO whom it YVES
transmitted, would have been pro-
ductive of good results. The expe-
dition was so successfully accomplished
that Sergeant Corbly was commission
ed rs lieutenant, in which capacity
he saw much service at the western
posts during the period of Pontiac's
conspiracy. The ranger returned to
his command with Major Rogers.
After the English had recovered
the ground lost in the war with Pont-
lac Angus resigned as captain and
engaged in business at Detroit, where
he married and reared family Of
children. some of whose descendants
now live in the region where he grew
UP as captive and slave. His efforts
to gather up the dropped threads of
his life proved unavailing, as has al
ready been related, but to the day of
his death he never ceased TO mourn
the loss of those parents who always
lived in his memory as he saw chem
last
TIE power of France in America
was forever crushed by the bloody war
that terminated in the treaty of Paris.
Pcatiac's dream of restoring that
power and of organizing the native
tribes in great confederacy to resist
the Entertainments of the cOnquerlng
British was scattered to the winds.
The tide of British dominion surged
westward with resistless might and
the feeble barriers of Indian opposi-
ton melted away in fire and blood be-
fore it. For the red man the choice
Law between civilization and destruc-
ton and the cruel and insulting ag-
oressions of the frontiersmen
backed by the bigotry and arrogance
of the army made the former impossi-
BILE. The admitted rights of the ma
tive tribes, even when apparently
made secure by treaty. were dlsre-
garded and trampled upon Captain
Corbly was sorrOwful witreos OF the
mistaken policy of the English and
never ceased to protest in favor of hui
manity and Christian benevolence as
the basis of better policy which he
hoped to see established.
But the naughty pride of England
was doomed to bow before a people
whoknew better than the Indians how
to resist ;ntolerable aggression. Her
I'm children. the c0loniStS she had es-
t. bliShed in her American empire,
rOSe against her inSOlence and tyranny
and declared for independence. and by
long and bitter war they made that
declaration good and forced the Bri
fish flag northward across the Cana,
dian border. Following the example
of the French the British now sought
to embitter the Indians against the
victors. With specious pleas that al
the outrages upon the red men ha6
been perpetrated by her refractory an6
northumberland children, Eng
lish emissaries tried to secure the ser
vices of the Indians in the war anC
after its close they still persisted il
their purpose Of melting the savage
TO insurrection and border warfare
If the young American giant coul(
have been weakened and exhausted b,
constant strife with the savage Ind
ians England might have descended
from the north and recovered her los
empire. 1t was a vain hope; the ban
ners of England could never again
float as emblems of dominion over ter
ritory won by American arms.
The terms of peace at the end o
the Revolution provided for the evac
uation of all the western posts bel,
by the British, which included De
troit. But, as the French had don
before them, they delayed this cere
mony on different pretexts for severa
years. The forts at Niagara, Detroi
and Michillimackinac were thus he'll
until 1876, thirteen years after tn
peace of Paris, and some rlinor inter
ior posts in communication with thes
were occupied as long or nearly SC
Angus Corbly, now middle-age
man, wealthy, respected and infiuen
tial, was exceedingly impatient at thi
delay, for in spite of his British SUI
roundings he had been an arden
American from the outbreak of fh