The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-24
VATARRIOR and Statesman, He Founded a Religion
w to Draw His Race Into One United Body
Died on the Battlefield Brigadier General in the
Service Of England. y y II u y

all three of these nations with the va
rious Indian tribes. However the in
formation came. It was stored in the
brain of Tecumseh. later to be brought
out in detail to illustrate his argument
when he told of pledges broken by first
one government and then another; OF
sacred obligations ruthlessly ignored;
OF dishonor piled upon dishonor, and
all to the injury all at The expense, OF
the people the Creator had put upon
American soil first
His First Fight.
Tecumseh. like Frederick the Great,
fied in his first battle. Lut he never
turned tail again. He was less than
eighteen when the village in which he
lived was attacked by Captain Ben
Logan and part yof whites. Most of
the braves were away. Logan made
thirty prisoners. the majority of them
squaws and children. Tecumseh, who
had run at the first fire, was broken
hearted when he realized how poorly
he had conducted himself, but within
year he redeemed himself. In
fight near the Ohio River he was fore
most in the attack. All the whites
! were killed except one, and he was
burned at the stake the next day. This
spectacle Mortified Tecumseh. He
made a speech 10 his companions so
eloquent and so appealing that they
all agreed never to burn prisoner
again
Hnrmer, st. Clair, Wayne.
For the next year or two Tecumseh
HUNTED and campaigned. Twice he had
encounters with parties led by Simon
Kenton. and each time he distinguish
ed himself by his GOODNESS and cour-
| age Then the Shawnee fever for
| travel took possession of him, and for
three years he wandered through the
| West and South. Incidentally he join
ed the Cherokees in their war on the
! whites.
! When he returned to Ohio he found
/! his country in turmoil The Federal
government had seen 900 regulars and
| 100 Kentucky volunteers into the
= Miami district to destroy the Indians
| cornfelds. The Indians. egged on by
{ the English, who retained various forts
! in the Western country. had committed
various depredations, and it was con-
/ sidered about time to punish them
i General Harmer, who commanded tho
expedition, was led into ambush and
| his force cut to pieces. Soon after Te-
1 cumseh rejoined the Shawnees General
meet with disaster more crushing than
| Harmer's. Tecumseh was one of the
scouts of the Indian force but was not
fpresent at the battle.
/, These two victories of the Indians
aroused the red men to q high degree
| and perhaps started Tecumseh to
| dreaming of holding the whites in
check or driving them back across the
mountains. But the Indians had far
! different man to deal with the next
time the Federal government sent a
/ force into the Ohio country. Mad An
thony" Wayne did not fall into the
traps that brought disaster to Harlnel
and ST. Clair, He trained his men
A well before he started, and when he
moved he struck right into the heart
of the Indian settlements on the Grand
Glaize. In the battle of Fallen -4nbers
he crushingly defeated the Indians
No one fought moro gallantly In this
battle than did Tecumseh Time aftel
time he rallied the Shawnees, and II
was not until the daywas lost that he
retreated One of his brothers was
killed by his side. For a great par,
Of the battle Tecumseh fought against
Il regiment commanded by William
EIenry Harrison, who afterWard was
to he his chief antagonist. ALTHOUGH
neither had anything to do With thu
: planning OF tHls HSH'' tHeS 'o'eo wv
their parts,
sorrowlng for His People.
The defeat broke the spirit of tn
indians Wayne had laid waste the
villages, destroyed their crops ant
Taught them q bitter lesson. The
were anxious for peace, and a denuta
ton of chiefs, headed by Blue jacket
the Shawnee, sent a flagto Wayne, blu
British agents Intercepted 1t, and
was not until June, 1895, that tn
peace OF Greenville was signed. j
this treaty the Miamis ana variou
other Indian bands relinauished larg
stretches Of land for settlement. Th
Shawnees, however, did not ACRE
,recumseh hated that treaty as he pa
ted everything that gave advantage
the whites. BY its terms he and n
people were driven further West. =
brought peace, or comp I've up sac
to the borderland, hut II also brougf
4 laroves OF whites. Each ear the n
lux 5Yas larger and lal' and cay