Putnam patriot., 1912-03-22

to the Algonquins who were occupied veloped in the Iroquois the spirit of war and great powers of resistance, so that they held their own against their enemies and engaged in long career Of conquest. Algonquin tribes all the way from Connecticut to the Missis- sippi River were treated as their vas sals and were forced to pay tributes Of weapons and wampum. Another of the many bloody campaigns was about to open on the shores of Lake Cham plain when Europeans appeared on the scene and written history begins.
 In 1909 Champlain joined his. Hu- ron. Algonquin allies and went with them on the war path against the lro- quois and by means Of his muskets gained an easy victory over them. From that time on, the Five Nations were reimplacable enemies of the French, moreover. they allied themselves with the Dutch under Coriaet and laler with the English under Sir William John son, and thus checked the progress of the French toward the lower Hudson.
 In the summer of 1889 the Iroquois began war of their own against the French and laid siege to Montreal. But by 1896 the French under Count Frontenac together with all the Algon- quin tribes succeeded in getting the upper hand and dealing the "Long House. terrible blow from the effects of which 1t never recovered. The league remained formidable, !, however, until the Revolution.
 Great changes took place within the lroquois Confederacy after the coming of the white man. By his firearms, liquor, fences, and social ideas, the unity of interests was broken and di- vision and secession set in, so that the 'forest Iepuhich was weakened. Large numbers of the Iroquois emigra- ted westward to live and hunt in Ohio and beyond, and joined the Ottawa Confedefacy. Others left in bands or groups, and made their homes in Penn sylvania, Virginia and the Southwest, to get away, if possible, from the white mans fences and fire water. Still others followed their religious teachers into Canada and made settlements there.
 These losses and those inflicted by the French in war were only partly made good by the addition in l713 of a whole tribe Of 1900 Tusearoras, who had been defeated in battle and ex- pelled from North Carolina by the English settlers. Although the Tus- caroras were iconsidered inferior to the others of the league, snll from that time the confederation was called the Six Nations,
 Both the Roman and Reformed teachers won many disciples in the s'Long House From l642 10 l6sl was the golden age Of early missions of the Roman form of the Christian faith in New York. It was abruptly brought kO A Cio>t 1N thO R0AAAatt NNtaNAAC NttN- ernor Dongan in the interests of Brit ish trade. On account of the French teachers of religion part of the lroquois were friendly to the French until the faii of the French dominion.
 In lT46 the House was divided against itself the Seneeas, Mohawks, and 0nondagas composed the greater faction; the oneidas, Cayugas, and Tuscaroras, the weaker.
 In l5a2 Johnson persuaded many of the Mohawks to send their children to school al Stockbridge, Massachusetts. In l75S, Rev. Gideon Hawley, who had ! taught the children of the Mohawks, l oneidas, and rusearoras, at Stock ] bridge, Massachusetts, was sent rom | Boston 10 establish mission school on |