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The Redskins Or, Indian And Injin: Being The Conclusion Of The Littlepage Manuscripts
The Redskins Or Indian And Injin Being The Conclusion Of The Littlepage Manuscripts Author:James Fenimore Cooper General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1873 Original Publisher: D. Appleton Subjects: Antirent War, N.Y., 1839-1846 Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / American / General Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies Notes: This is a black and whi... more »te OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. "Oh, when slmll I visit the land of my birth, The loveliest land on the face of the earth ? When shall I those scenes of affection explore, Our forests, oar fountains, Our hamlets, our mountains, With the pride of our mountains, the maid I adore T" MoHTCOMKKT. It was truly news for an American, who had been so long cut off from intelligence from home, thus suddenly to be told that some of the scenes of the middle ages -- scenes connected with real wrongs and gross abuses of human rights -- were about to be enacted in his own land; that country which boasted itself, not only to be the asylum of the oppressed, but the conservator of the right. I was grieve at what I had heard, for, during my travels, I had cherished a much-loved image of justice and political excellence, that I now began to fear must be abandoned. My uncle and myself decided at once to return home, a step that indeed was required by prudence. I was now of an age to enter into the full possession of my own property (so far as "new laws and new lords" would permit); and the letters received by my late guardian, as well as certain newspapers, communicated the unpleasant fact that a great many of the tenants of Ravensnest had joined the association, paid tribute for the support of "Injins," and were getting to be as bad as any of the rest of them, so far as designs and schemes to plund...« less