202 TE-CUM-SEH.
"TO THE. MEMORY OF TE-CUM-SEH.
" Te-cum-seh has no grave, but eagles dipt
Their rav'ning beaks, and drank his stout heart's tide, Leaving his bones to whiten where he died :
His skin by Christian tomahawks was stript From the bard fibres.* — Impotence of pride !
Triumphant o'er the earth-worm, but in vain Deeming th' impassive spirit to deride,
Which, nothing or immortal, knows no pain !
Might ye torment him to this earth again, That were an agony : his children's blood Delug'd his soul, and like a fiery flood,
Scorch' d up his core of being. Then the stain
Of flight was on him, and the wringing thought, He should no more the crimson hatchet raise Nor drink from kindred lips his song of praise ;
So liberty, he deemed, with life was cheaply bought."
��Extracts from "James Military Occurrences."
" The American general, in expectation that one hundred and fifty Ohio volunteers, under the command of Captain Brush, were waiting at the river Raisoin, thirty-six miles oft", with a quantity of provisions for the army, despatched Major Vanhorne, with two hundred men, to meet and escort the reinforcement to its destina- tion. Fortunately, the major encountered, on his second day's march, near Brownstown, seventy Indians, under the brave Te- cum-seh, in ambuscade. The latter fired, and, according to the American accounts, killed twenty men, including Captains M'Cul- loch, Bostler, Gilcrease, and Ubry ; and wounded nine. Te-cum-seh and his seventy Indians, with the loss of only one man killed, drove these two hundred Americans before them, for seven miles, and took possession of the mail they were escorting. — Vol. I. p. 61.
" We must not omit here to mention, that the famed Indian warrior, Te-cum-seh, buried his tomahawk in the head of a Chippeway chief, whom he found actively engaged in massacring some of Colonel Dudley's men. f — Ibid. p. 201.
- " The riflemen are said to have cut off strips of his skin to preserve
as trophies."
t American troops who had been taken prisoners near Fort Meigs, in May, 1813.— Ed.
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