" It is agreed," says the final Article of the treaty, " that the
Delaware chiefs, Kelelamand, or Lieut-colonel Henry, Henque
Pushees, or the Big Cat, and Wicocalind, or Captain White
Eyes, who took up the hatchet for the United States, and their
families, shall be received into the Delaware Nation in the same
situation and rank as before the war, and enjoy their due por-
tions of the lands given to the Wyandotte and Delaware nations
in this treaty, as fully as if they had not taken part with Amer-
ica, or as any other person or persons in the said nations."

This Captain White Eyes had adhered to our cause in spite
of great opposition from the hostile part of the tribe. At one
time he was threatened with a violent death if he should dare
to say one word for the American cause ; but by spirited ha-
rangues he succeeded in keeping the enthusiasm of his own
party centred around himself, and finally carrying them over to
the side of the United States. Some of his speeches are on rec-
ord, and are worthy to be remembered :

" If you will go out in this war," he said to them at one
time, when the band were inclined to join the British, " you
shall not go without me. I have taken peace measures, it is
true, with the view of saving my tribe from destruction ; but if
you think me in the wrong, if you give more credit to runaway
vagabonds than to your own friends — to a man, to a warrior,
to a Delaware — if you insist on fighting the Americans — go !
and I will go with you. And I will not go like the bear-hunt-
er, who sets his dogs on the animal to be beaten about with his
paws, while he keeps himself at a safe distance. No ; I will
lead you on ; I will place myself in the front ; I will fall with
the first of you ! You can do as you choose ; but as for me, I
will not survive my nation. I will not live to bewail the mis-
erable destruction of a brave people, who deserved, as you do,
a better fate."



36 A CENTURY OP DISHONOR.
