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continent, and blotted forever om its ce a whole peculiar people. Art has usurped the bowers of na­ ture, and the anointed children of education have been too power l r the tribes of the ignorant.
6. :Here and there a stricken w remain; but how unlike their bold, untamed, untameable progenitors! The In an, of lcon glance, and lion bearing, the theme of the touching-ballad, the hero of the pathetic tale, is gone! and his degraded o spring craw] upon the soil ·where be walked in majesty, to remind ·us how miserable is man, when the ot of the con­ queror is on his neck.
7. As a race, they have withred from the land.
Their arrows are broken, their springs are dried up, their cabins are in the dust. Their council- re has long since gone out on the shore, and their war-cry is fast dying to the untrodden Vest. Slowly and sadly they climb the distant mountains, and read their doom in the setting sun. They are shrinking be re the mighty tide which is pressing them away; they must soon hear the roar of the last wave, which will settle over them rever.
a people.
They will
0. SPRAGUE.
8. Ages hence the inquisitive white man, as he stands by some growing city, will ponder on the
what manner of person they belonged.
structure of their disturbed remains, and wonder to live only in the songs and chronicles of their exter­
minators. Let these be ith l to their rude virtues as men, and pay due tribute to their unhappy te as