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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. 1845 edition. Excerpt: ...equal rank, yet there usually is one, who either by artificial, or universally acknowledged talent, directs in a great measure, the destinies of the nation; and such among the. Senecas, was 'HARD HICKORY.' To a mind of no ordinary grade, he added, from his intercourse with the whites, a polish of manner, seldom seen in an Indian. The French language he spoke fluently, and the English, intelligiblv. Scrupulously adhering to the costume of his people, and retaining many of their habits, this Chief was much endeared to them; while on the other hand, his urbanity, and for an Indian, he possessed, as alrendy observed, a large share of the sunmter in modo--his intelligence, his ardent attachment to the whites--and above all, his strict iniegrity in business transactions, obtained for him, and deservedly, ' the respect and confidence of all with whom he traded. Such was the trust the merchants of Lower Sandusky reposed in this Chief, that when an indigent Indian came to ask for goods on a credit, if Hard Hickory would say he would see the sum paid, no more was required. Thus his word passed current with, and current for, the whole nation. And as in the mind of man there is something intuitive, better known than defined, by which instinctively, as it were, we find in the bosom of another, a response to our own feelings; so in the present case, this noble Indian soon discovered in the late Obed Dickinson, a merchant of Lower Sandusky, a gonernus, confiding and elevated mind, whose honorable vibrations beat in unison with his own. To Mr. D. therefore, he made known the lime when they would celebrate their festival, by sacrificing their dogs, &c. &c., and cordially invited him to attend as a guest, and if so disposed, he might bring a friend...
