In whatever aspect the genius and character of Tecumseh may be viewed, they present the evidence of 235 his having been a remarkable man; and, to repeat the language of a distinguished statesman and general, who knew him long and intimately, who has often met him in the council and on the field of battle, we may venture to pronounce him, one of those uncommon geniuses which spring up occasionally to produce revolutions, and overturn the established order of things; and, who, but for the power of the United States, would, perhaps, have been the founder of an empire which would have rivalled that of Mexico or Peru.
Footnotes
[1] History of the Indian Tribes of North America, by James Hall and J. L. McKinney, a valuable work, containing one hundred and twenty richly colored portraits of Indian chiefs.
[2] "This treaty," says Voltaire, "was the first made between those people (the Indians) and the Christians, that was not ratified with an oath, and that was never broken."
[3] Proud's History of Pennsylvania.
[6] I Vol. Trans. Amer. Antiquarian Society.
[7] The Shawanoes call the Mohicans their elder brother, and the Delawares their grandfather.