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Updated: May 18, 2025
That's what I was going to observe. They had a great time at Quebec last summer; but it was unanimously voted that the Tecumseh was the worst ship of the lot. I send out an agent to see what had become of my three friends, and he came back and told me all. He said that about four hundred of the Tecumseh's passengers died during the voyage, and ever so many more after the landing.
The pews in the first four rows of their church rented for one hundred dollars apiece quite up to the Presbyterian highwater mark and they now had almost abolished free pews altogether. The oyster suppers given by their Ladies' Aid Society in the basement of the church during the winter had established rank among the fashionable events in Tecumseh's social calendar.
It is no wonder that at this time the Shawnee children played war; for their elders were almost constantly fighting with the settlers. Tecumseh's childhood was far from a peaceful, happy one. He learned early the oppressive gloom and the wild excitement that accompany war.
The sum and substance of Tecumseh's doctrine is thus succinctly stated by Judge Law: "That the Great Spirit had given the Indians all their lands in common to be held by them as such and not by the various tribes who had settled on portions of it claiming it as their own.
There was a man named Wheatley in the American camp, a strange, incommunicative person, a volunteer, making war entirely on his own book, and seeking revenge for some relatives of his, who had been killed by the Indians. The fight drifted around, and R along with it; and by and by he reached a spot where Wheatley lay dead, with his head on Tecumseh's breast.
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