Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ... LOGAN. ACT I. SC E N E I.--Wheeling. A Militia Council of War. Capt. Furioso. The Indians are gathering close about us: what shall we do with them? Ist Lieutenant. Let us fall to work, and kill every rascal of them without delay, for they certainly intend mischief. 2d Lieutenant. What evidence have we that they design to do mischief? ist Lieut. Have you not heard of their having stolen horses from the land jobbers, and that they have killed nearly all the traders that were among them? 2d Lieut. I have heard these reports; but do not know thro' what channel they come. Perhaps they may not be true: a few days will confirm the truth or falsehood of them. We had therefore better wait a while. ist Lieut. I am for no delay. You know that even a false report is always followed by a true one of the same kind. If the Indians have not already done mischief, they will soon do it. 2d Lieut. I am no prophet. I cannot forsee what these Indians intend doing. Capt. Fur. I am afraid that evil is gathering about us, or why so large an encampment of Indians at the mouth of Yellow Creek? Another has been made at the mouth of Captina. Thus they are stationed both above and below us, and more of them are now coming down the river in canoes. What do these things mean? Why do these Yellow-jackets come so near us? 2d Lieut. They are still on their own ground. ist Lieut. On their own ground! What ground can an Indian have? I would as soon apply to a buffaloe, for a right to the land over the river, as to an Indian. I could prove that he marked the earth with his feet, had eaten the weeds and brushed the bushes with his tail, and made paths to the salt licks, and what has an Indian done more? Capt. Fur. An Indian is not worthy to be compared to a buffaloe: He is a...
