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Show TRAVELS THROUGH UPPEl CANADA: d 1 · d tl rr demand ant receive lC aJ JlHll.", 1,' ce of th e In lians in th e Ame ri.c an war, fo ungenerouf1 y an( 1 nnJ.U (ll Y Yi eld ttl) th , v. h )lc of the Indwn tcr-f n.t on•c s, ea 11: o f tl1 Miaiilipf)i and fvuth of th , lakes, to the peop1l e o the United tates; to the very enemies, in Owrt, they had made tot 1t:m-1r. e 1V eS at t 11 e reqUetL11. of the Britifh • He perceived with regret t.h at th. e Indians, by fpou!ing the quarrels of the whites, and 1? efpouhng .dtf- fcren t in tereils, were we a 1< cnm· g t 11 em1r e 1 v s ,. whereas ' 1f th. y remn mcd aloof, and were guided by the ne poli y, they would !oon become formidable, and be treated with more rcfpcCt; he fon cd the bold fcheme, therefore, of uniting the Indians toge th er in one gra~1d confederacy, and for this purpofe fent me!lcngers to different ch1efs, }~ropofing that a general meeting 01ould be held of. the_ heads. of every _tr_tbe, to take the fubj eCt into conGdcration ; but ccrtam of the tnbe~, _fufpicJous of Brandt's defigns, and fearful that he was bent up~n ac~umno· power for himfelf by this meafure, oppo!ed i"t with all then· 1mght. Brandt has in confequence become extremely obnoxious to many of the mofl: warlike, and with fuch a jealous eye do they now regard him, that it would not be perfeCtly fafe for him to venture to the upper country. He has managed the afE1irs ofhis own people with great ability, and leafed out their fuperfluous lands for them, for Jon •; terms of years, Ly ,vhich meafure a certain annual revenue is enfured to the IU i d ~, probab y .,_ long as it will remain a nation. Jie wi{;·Jy ju gcd, tha t Jt was much better to do fo than to [uffer the Mohawks, as many other tribes had done, to fell their poffeffions by pie " I 1cal, the fums of money they received for which, however great, would loon be diiTipated if paid to them at once. Whenever the afi:1irs of his nation {hall permit him to do fo, Brandt d(.;clare it to be his inten ti n to fit down to the further fl:udy of the Greek language, of which he profdfes himfelf to J,e a great admirer, and to tranflate fmrn the original, into the Mohawk language, more of the New Tefl:ament; yet th is fame man, lhortly before we arrived at Niagara, killed his only fon with his own hand. The fon, it feems, was a dmnken good for nothing fellow, who had often avowed his intentjon of M I S S I 0 N A R I E S. of delhoyinrr his .fi1ther. One evening he abfolutcJy entered th ap:ut- 1 Tent of his f<tther, a11d had begun to gra pple with hin, pcrlwps with a view to put his unnatural threats in to ·xccu tion, when Urandt drew a fhort fword, and felled him to the grottnd . Brandt Cr~cal s of th is afT. 1 ir I with regret, but at the f:unc timo without any of that emotion which anoth er perfon than an Indian might be fll pp b l to fed. ITt.: c nfolcs lJimfelf for the aCl:, by thinking th .1t he Jus ben~fittt:d the na tion, by ridding them of a rafca l. Brandt wears hi hair in th Indian il:ylr..:, and alfo the Indian drcfs ; inO: ead of the wrapper, or blanket, he wears a 01ort coat, fuch a I have defcribed, fimilar to a hunting fi-ock. Though infinite pains have been tal en by the French Roman Catholics, and other miffionarie , to propngate the go!pel amongfl: the Indian , and though many different tribes have been imluced thereby to .fi1bmit to baptifin, yet it does not appear, except in very few infttnce , that any material advantages have refulted from tl1e introdt1ction of the Chrifhan religion amongfl: them. They have karned to repeat certain forms of prayer; they have learn ed to attend to certain outward ce:emonics ; but they flill continue to be fwayed by the [unt.: violent paffions as before, and have imbibed nothing of the genuine fpirit of chriflianity. The Moravian millionarics have wrought a greater change in the minds of the Indians than any oth rs, and have fu cceedcd [o Jar a to induce iome of them to abandon their iavage mode of life, to renounce war, and to cultivate the earth. It is with the 1\!Junlles, a fmall tribe refitlcnt n the cafl: fide of Lake t. Clair, that they ha ve had the moll fu ccefs ; but the nnmbcr that have been fo converted is fmall indeed. T he 1 man atholics luvc the mofl: adherents, as the outward forms and paradt: of their religion ar particularly cal ulatcd to fl:rike the attention of the IndiatJS, and as but little rcfiraint is Lud on them by the miffionaries of that perfuafion, in coni( qucn e of their profefiion of the new faith. The ~akers, of all peopl , have had the lcafi fu ccds amongl1 them ; the dotl:rine of non-refi(rance, whi ·h they fet out Wtth preaching, but ill accords with the opinion of the llldian; and amongl1 fo.u <: tnbes, -3 G wh.ere. |