Tecumseh; or, the West thirty years since. A poem

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TECUMSEH; OR, THE WEST THIRTY YEARS SINCE. A POEM. BY GEORGE H. COLTON. " All kinds, all creatures atand or fall By strength of prowess or of wit : Tis God's appointment, who shall sway, And who is to submit. — Say. then, that he was wise as brave, A. wise in thought as bold in deed ; For in the principles of things He sought hu moral creed. Arid thou, although with some wild thoughts Wild chieftain of a savage clan! Hadstthis to boast, that thou didst lore The liberty of man." Wordsworth. NEW-YORK: WILEY AND PUTNAM, 161 BROADWAY. 1842. Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1842, ET GEORGE H. COLTON, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York. PRINTED BY WILLIAM GSBOF.N, 88 "WimairiftTCst. " > / TO WASHINGTON IRVING, ILLUSTRIOUS AND BELOVED, AT HOME AND ABROAD, AND MOST HONORED OF THOSE TO WHOM HE IS KNOWN THE BEST, THIS POEM IS, BY PERMISSION, RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.