ON THE STATE OF THE IROQUOIS,
OR SIX NATIONS.
In 1845, the Legislature of New York directed a census of these cantons, which evinced an advanced state of industry.
The lordly Iroquois is tending sheep,
Gone are the plumes that decked his brow,
For his bold raid, no more the wife shall weep—
He holds the plough.
The bow and quiver which his fathers made;
The gun, that filled the warrior's deadliest vow;
The mace, the spear, the axe, the ambuscade—