[62]. Hildreth.
[63]. That is to say, slaves.
[64]. Hildreth.
[65]. Jared Sparkes.
[66]. There are very few national American ballads: so few, indeed, that whenever an historical event has become a portion of popular literature, we may be sure that it took an unusually strong hold on the popular mind, and as having done so it is additionally worthy of the historian’s notice. The Ballad Sainclaire’s Defeat is a sort of “Chevy Chase” of the Western Territory, and abounds with deep pathos:—
’Twas November the fourth, in the year of ninety-one,
We had a sore engagement, near to Fort Jefferson;
Sainclaire was our commander, which may remembered be,
For there we left nine hundred men, in t’West’n Ter’tory.
At Bunker’s Hill and Quebeck, where many a hero fell,