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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 26: Cherokee feuds. (search)
p and water, settled homesteads, personal property, and equal laws. Two brothers, named Strong Buck and Stand Watie, were the active radical chiefs; Strong Buck the thinker, Stand Watie the soldierBuck the thinker, Stand Watie the soldier of their band. Adair was but a nominal head. Strong Buck had been sent by Elias Boudinot, a kindly French planter, to a good school, where he had learned to read, become a Catholic, adopted the namBuck had been sent by Elias Boudinot, a kindly French planter, to a good school, where he had learned to read, become a Catholic, adopted the name of his French patron, and married a woman with White blood in her veins. While the tribes were moving to their new grounds, Ross and his friends were all for fighting, Boudinot and his friends were, has fallen to Colonel Adair, a son of the murdered chief, and Colonel Boudinot, a son of Strong Buck. Dressed in English attire, Colonel Boudinot might pass for a southern White. This young Mest five of whom can understand an English phrase. It is a saying in Vinita, that the son of Strong Buck is rather White than Red. The scare of which we heard at Olathe, on the Kansas frontier, is an
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 31: Red and Black. (search)
res are both hated and despised. No living creature can be held in greater scorn than a Black man is held by a Red. Not many weeks ago, says the son of Strong Buck, I went up to the Capitol, in Washington, to hear a grand palaver on the policy to be adopted towards my nation, and I found a Negro in the Speaker's chair! Whilnd yesterday a slave! That men of the White race, leaders of old and mighty States, should sit under a Black fellow and obey his nod, seems to the son of Strong Buck very strange. Yet this strange sight was not so galling to the Cherokee as the fact that a coward and a slave should be seen ruling, even for a moment, the councve and immemorially free. Everyone, sighs the young Cherokee, appears to have rights in this republic except the original owners of the soil. The son of Strong Buck and nephew of Stand Watie cannot see that this new position of the Negro is an accident, not a growth, having no better foundation than the quicksands of a party v