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.