An Authentic and Comprehensive History of Buffalo: With Some Account of Its Early Inhabitants, Both Savage and Civilized ; Comprising Historic Notices of the Six Nations Or Iroquois Indians, Including a Sketch of the Life of Sir William Johnson, and of Other Prominent White Men, Long Resident Among the Senecas ; Arranged in Chronologial Order, Volumen2

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Rockwell, Baker & Hill, Printers, 1865
 

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Página 115 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Página 27 - Oyonwayea to the Ohio, shall be the western boundary of the lands of the Six Nations, so that the Six Nations shall and do yield to the United States, all claims to the country west of the said boundary, and then they shall be secured in the...
Página 247 - President of the United States, by virtue of the power and authority in me vested by the Constitution and in the name of the sovereign people of the United States...
Página 112 - Brothers, as you are once more assembled in council for the purpose of doing honor to yourselves and justice to your country, we, your brothers, the sachems, chiefs and warriors of the Seneca nation, request you to open your ears and give attention to our voice and wishes.
Página 26 - Six hostages shall be immediately delivered to the commissioners by the said nations, to remain in possession of the United States, till all the prisoners, white and black, which were taken by the said...
Página 26 - Landing Place, upon the lake named by the Indians Oswego, and by us Ontario ; from thence southerly, in a direction always four miles east of the carrying...
Página 115 - A combination and a form indeed, To give the world assurance of a man. With such attributes, it is not surprising that his influence with his nation, though its form of government is essentially democratic, was controlling — nor is it less to his true glory, that his open-heartedness, his fidelity to truth and his generous magnanimity, secured for him the admiration and esteem of every white person who had the honor of his acquaintance.
Página 114 - Why should you hesitate to make our minds easy with regard to this our request? To you it is but a little thing; and have you not complied with the request and confirmed the gifts of our brothers, the Oneidas, the Onondagas and Cayugas to their interpreters?
Página 390 - Newark, it is not his intention to pursue further a system of warfare so revolting to his own feelings, and so little congenial to the British character unless the future measures of the Enemy should compel him again to resort to it.
Página 113 - The path of peace was opened, and the chain of friendship was once more made bright. Then these our adopted children left us, to seek their relations. We wished them to remain among us, and promised, if they would return and live in our country, to give each of them a seat of land for them and their children to sit down upon. " Brothers — They have returned, and have for several years past been serviceable to us as interpreters. We still feel our hearts beat with affection for them, and now wish...

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