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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXII (search)
points of light. This absence of all reflective consciousness, and of all logical analysis of ideas, is the great peculiarity of American speech. Every complex idea is Jarvis, in N. Y. Hist. expressed in a group. Synthesis governs every form; Coll. it pervades all the dialects of the Iroquois and the Al- Pickering, Notes to Eliot. gonquin, and equally stamps the character of the lan- Duponcean, Mem. 95. guage of the Cherokee. This synthetic character is apparent in the attempt to exprehimself, whether the sacrifice consisted in oblations or acts of self-denial. But the Indian had a consciousness of man's superiority to the powers of nature, and sorcerers sprung up in every part of the wilderness. They Jarvis, in N. Y. Hist. Coll. III. 217, 252. were prophets whose prayers would be heard. They are no other, said the Virginian Whitaker, but such as our English witches: and, as their agency was most active in healing disease, they are now usually called medicine men. Her
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXIII (search)
, of the cross and the rosary. My Christians, retorted Rasles, believe the truths of the Catholic faith, but are not skilful disputants; and he himself prepared a defence of the Roman church. Thus Calvin and Loyola met in the woods of Maine. But the Protestant minister, unable to compete with the Jesuit for me affections of the Indians, returned to Boston, Chap. XXIII.} while the friar remained, the incendiary of mischief. Several chiefs had, by stratagem, been seized by 1721 Mass Hist Coll. XVIII. Lett. Ed. IV. July. the New England government, and were detained as hostages. For their liberty a stipulated ransom had been paid; and still they were not free. The Abenakis then demanded that their territory should be evacuated, and the imprisoned warriors delivered up, or reprisals would follow. Instead of negotiating, the English seized the young baron de St. Castin, who, being a half-breed, at once held a French commission and was an Indian war-chief; and, after vainly so
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 24: (search)
s, but on the left bank of the Savannah. The country between the two rivers was still a wilderness, over which England held only a nominal jurisdiction, when the spirit of benevolence Reasons for establishing the Colony of Georgia, in Georgia Hist Coll. i. 213 formed a partnership with the selfish passion for extended territory, and, heedless of the objection that the colonies would grow too great for England, and throw off their dependency, resolved to plant the sunny clime with the childrechase of negroes is forbidden, wrote Von Reck, on account of the vicinity of the Spaniards; and this was doubtless the governmental view. The colony was also an asylum to receive the distressed. It was necessary, therefore, Voyage in Georgia Hist Coll. 96. not to permit slaves in such a country; for slaves starve the poor laborer. But, after a little more than two years, several of the better sort of people in Savannah addressed a petition to the trustees for the use Tailfer, 23 of negroe