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in reply--Address of President Washington--Red Jacket's reply--Cause of Indian hostilities.

CHAPTER IX.
Indian appropriation--Deputation to the west promised--Instructions-- Silver medal given to Red Jacket by the president--Military suits-- Washington's address at parting--Thayendanegea's visit--Council at Au Glaize--Another Indian council--Delegation--British control--Washington's letter--Army under General Wayne--Successful campaign--Treaty concluded.

CHAPTER X.
Canandaigua at an early day--Facts in the early settlement of Bloomfield-- Indian council--Its object--Indian parade--Indian dress--Opening of the council--Speeches--Liberal offers of the government--Mr. Savary's journal --Conclusion of treaty--Account of Red Jacket by Thomas Morris.

CHAPTER XI.
Valley of the Genesee--Indian misgivings--Mill yard--Effort to obtain their land--Council at Big Tree--Coming of the Wadsworths--Indian villages--Refusal to sell--Discussion between Red Jacket and Thomas Morris--Breaking up of the council.

CHAPTER XII.
Interview between Farmer's Brother and Thomas Morris--Mr. Morris addresses the women--Distributes presents--Negotiations continued--Treaty concluded with the women and warriors--Manner of payment--Inquiries about a bank-- Their reservations--White women--Young King's dissent--Final settlement-- Charge of insincerity.

CHAPTER XIII.
Council at Canawangus--Interesting reminiscence of Red Jacket--Address of Farmer's Brother--Jasper Parish--Horatio Jones--Red Jacket's visit at Hartford, Conn.

CHAPTER XIV.
Cornplanter in disrepute--Effort to regain his standing--Red Jacket charged with witchcraft--His defense--Further notice of Cornplanter--Early recollections--With the Indians who defeated Gen. Braddock in 1755--With the English in the war of the Revolution--Takes his father a prisoner--His address--Release of his father--Address to the governor of Pennsylvania-- Visit of President Alden--Close of his life.

CHAPTER XV.
Change in Red Jacket's views--Causes producing it--Unfavorable to any change in the habits of his people--Opposes the introduction of Christianity among them--Visit of a missionary--Missionary's speech--Red Jacket's reply--Unpleasant termination of the council.

CHAPTER XVI.
Tecumseh and Indian confederation--Aid given by Elskawata--Doings at the Prophet's town--Great Indian council at the West--Red Jacket's claim for precedence to be given the Senecas--His adherence to the United States-- Hostilities encouraged by British agents--Warriors gathered at the Prophet's town--Visited by General Harrison at the head of his troops-- Hostilities disclaimed--Surprised by a sudden attack--Indians defeated-- War proclaimed against England--Indians take sides--Unfavorable commencement--Different successes--Part taken by Red Jacket.

CHAPTER XVII.
Taking of Fort Erie--Battle of Chippewa--Service rendered by the Indians-- General Porter's account of the campaign--Red Jacket commended--Withdrawal of Indian forces--Other successes--Conclusion of peace.

CHAPTER XVIII.
Pre-emptive right to the Indian reservations, sold to the Ogden Company-- Council to obtain an extinguishment of the Indian title--Red Jacket's reply to Mr. Ogden's speech--Indians refuse to sell--Another council called--Account given by Hon. Albert Tracy--Various utterances of the orator on that occasion--Indians appeal to the governments of the United States and New York--Noble response of Governor De Witt Clinton of New York--Final success of the Ogden Company.

CHAPTER XIX.
Witchcraft--Case of Tom. Jemmy--Testimony of Red Jacket--Red Jacket's philippic--Finding of the court--Remarkable interview of Dr. Breckenridge with Red Jacket--Further expression of views.

CHAPTER XX.
Personal characteristics--Interview with General Lafayette--Visit of a French nobleman--Col. Pickering reproved--Address on launching a schooner bearing his name--Anecdote of Red Jacket and Capt. Jones--His humor-- Strong memory--Its cultivation--Contempt for pretension without merit-- Love of the sublime--Portraits--Acute perception--Refined sense of propriety--First bridge at Niagara Falls--Loss of his children--Care for his people.

CHAPTER XXI.
Views at the close of life--Incident--His lifework--Unfavorable influences --Advance of Christian party--Conversion of Red Jacket's wife--Leaves her --His return--Red Jacket deposed--Journey to Washington--His restoration-- Rapid decline--Regards his end as near--Talks with the people--Endeavors to unite them--Sickness and death.

PLATES.
Portrait of Red Jacket Portrait of King Hendrick View of Johnson Hall Portrait of Sir John Johnson Portrait of Barry St. Leger Portrait of Joseph Brant Facsimile of Washington's Medal View of Seneca Mission Church View of Red Jacket's House

CHAPTER I.
Name widely known--Interest naturally awakened in his history--His origin --Development of his genius--Opinion of Capt. Horatio Jones--Customs of his people--Their love of eloquence--Distinguished orators among them--The inviting field opened.
Among the aborigines of this country, few names have excited a deeper interest, or have been more widely and familiarly known than that of RED JACKET. The occasion of this notoriety was the rare fact that, though a rude and unlettered son of the forest, he was distinguished for the arts and accomplishments of the orator. His life marks an era in the history of his nation and his name like that of Demosthenes, is forever associated with eloquence.
Other circumstances however, impart interest to his history. His was the last great name of a nation, and he is entitled to remembrance, on the soil which was once the home of his fathers. And though linked with a melancholy association, as connected with the waning history of a people that once laid a claim to greatness, but are now fast passing into obscurity, it is not on this account the less attractive, but presents another reason for our regard.
Such was the name of SA-GO-YE-WAT-HA, or, as he has more commonly been called, Red Jacket. Having risen, by the force of his eloquence, from an obscure station to the highest rank among his people, he became conspicuous in all of those great transactions, in which they gradually relinquished a title to their old hunting grounds, and gave place to the intrusive white man. And he