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Updated: May 9, 2025
A stalwart chief arose, glanced contemptuously at the officer and his little guard, and, striding to the table where Clarke was seated, threw upon it two girdles of wampum the peace-belt and the war-belt. "We offer you these belts," he said. "You know what they mean. Take which you like." It was a deliberate insult and defiance. Both sides knew it, and many of the men held their breath.
A stalwart chief arose, glanced contemptuously at the officer and his little guard, and, striding to the table where Clarke was seated, threw upon it two girdles of wampum the peace-belt and the war-belt. "We offer you these belts," he said. "You know what they mean. Take which you like." It was a deliberate insult and defiance. Both sides knew it, and many of the men held their breath.
Without deflecting his gaze he answered: "Back to their homes on the Scioto." "The white trader, the Pack-Horse-Man, spoke words that drive them back?" It was either a trick of the dying light, or else I detected an almost imperceptible twitching of the grim lips. After a short pause he said: "The Shawnees are not driven. They will pick up the end of the peace-belt.
We accept your peace-belt. "We received the tomahawk from the English. Poverty forced us to it. We were followed by other tribes. We are sorry for it. To-day we collect the scattered bones of our friends and bury them in one grave. We thus plant the tree of peace, that God may spread its branches so that we can all be secured from bad weather. Here is the pipe that gives us joy. Smoke out of it.
The messenger farther declared that, though they would make peace with Onontio, they would not make it with his allies. Frontenac threw back the peace-belt into his face. "Tell the chiefs that, if they must needs stay at home to cry about a trifle, I will give them something to cry for.
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