How beautiful, as well as affecting, is that conception of one of the sweetest writers of the age, in which she traces the memorials of this long buffeted and afflicted race!

"Ye say that all have pass'd away;

The noble race—and brave;
That their light canoes have vanish'd
From off the crested wave-

That 'mid the forests where they roam'd,
There rings no hunter's shout:-
But their name is on your waters,

Ye may not wash it out.

"Ye say their cone-like cabins

That cluster'd o'er the vale,

Have disappear'd, as wither'd leaves
Before the autumn gale-

But their mem'ry liveth on your hills,

Their baptism on your shore,
Your ever-rolling rivers speak

Their dialect of yore."

DISCOURSE II.

CLAIMS OF THE INDIANS UPON OUR NATIONAL REGARD, ARISING FROM PAST SERVICES AND SUFFERINGS, AND FROM UNANSWERABLE EVIDENCES OF ENDOWMENTS, AND CAPACITY TO RECEIVE AND ENJOY THE BENEFITS OF CIVILIZATION.

PART I.

NORTH AMERICA AS OUR ANCESTORS FOUND it. IRRESISTIBLE CLAIM OF THE INDIAN RACES ON OUR GRATITUDE AND FAVOR.

Brief review of the position of the American Indian-Difficulty of picturing the past-Humble attempt to overcome this difficulty-The hunter and his preyThe canoe-Fishing-The war-whoop-The conflict-Trophies of victoryThe scalp-dance-The voice of thunder-The wilderness-The ocean- -The forest-Contrast of all this with its present appearance-Amazement of the natives on the arrival of the Europeans-Their first intercourse-Secret fears-First settlement at Jamestown-Indebted for its preservation to Pocahontas, the instrument of Providence-Her character-The sufferings and extermination of the Indians unnecessary-The white man responsible for it all -The appeal of Pocahontas, "the deliverer”—A second deliverance from the same hand-Her marriage and early death-Her descendants-Anecdote of John Randolph-Lines, by Miss M. F. Caulkins.

THE Indians were left, in our previous discourse, sole occupants of this country; victorious legions over a vanquished and exterminated race, but warring fiercely with one another. How long these intestine feuds continued, before the arrival of the Europeans, cannot be known— perhaps centuries.

Here, then, was this vast continent, which had been, as I have supposed, the theatre of a bloody and extermina