A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri: With Numerous Sketches, Anecdotes, Adventures, Etc., Relating to Early Days in Missouri. Also the Lives of Daniel Boone and the Celebrated Indian Chief, Black Hawk, with Numerous Biographies and Histories of Primitive Institutions

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Bryan Brand & Company, 1876 - Missouri - 528 pages
 

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Page 64 - Columbia, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...
Page 457 - The council then proceeded, and the pipe of peace was smoked. Here, for the first time, I touched the goose quill to the treaty — not knowing, however, that, by that act, I consented to give away my village.
Page 390 - Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him : for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. 11 Woe unto the wicked ! it shall be ill with him : for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
Page 436 - On their arrival at St. Louis, they met their American father, and explained to him their business, and urged the release of their friend. The American chief told them he wanted land, and they...
Page 439 - Soon after our return home, news reached us that a war was going to take place between the British and the Americans. Runners continued to arrive from different tribes, all confirming the report of the expected war. The British agent, Col. Dixon, was holding talks with, and making presents to, the different tribes. I had not made up my mind whether to join the British or remain 'neutral.
Page 439 - Why did the Great Spirit ever send the whites to this island, to drive us from our homes, and introduce among us poisonous liquors, disease and death! They should have remained on the island where the Great Spirit first placed them.
Page 457 - We can only judge of what is proper and right by our standard of right and wrong, which differs widely from the whites, if I have been correctly informed. The whites may do bad all their lives, and then, if they are sorry for it when about to die, all is well! But with us it is different: we must continue throughout our lives to do what we conceive to be good.
Page 441 - Few of us slept that night ; all was gloom and discontent. In the morning a canoe was seen descending the river ; it soon arrived, bearing an express, who brought intelligence that La Gutrie, a British trader, had landed at Rock Island, with two boats loaded with goods, and requested us to come up immediately because he had good news for us, and a variety of presents. The express presented us with tobacco, pipes and wampum.
Page 446 - ... the enemy and save their own people, as we do, (which, with us, is considered good policy in a war chief,) they march out, in open daylight, and fight, regardless of the number of warriors they may lose! After the battle is over, they retire to feast, and drink wine, as if nothing had happened; after which, they make a statement in writing, of what they have done — each party claiming the victory! and neither giving an account of half the number that have been killed on their own side. They...
Page 442 - Black Hawk, I sent for you, to explain to you what we are going to do, and the reasons that have brought us here. Our friend, La Gutrie, informs us in the letter you brought from him, what has lately taken place. You will now have to hold us fast by the hand. Your English father has found out that the Americans want to take your country from you — and has sent me and his braves to drive them back to their own country. He has, likewise, sent a large quantity of arms and ammunition — and we want...

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