It is not generally known in the West that there are on the New York reservations, at the present time, more than 5,000 Indians, including about 2,700 survivors of the once great Seneca tribe.

The speeches to the Complanter and other Seneca chiefs, the instructions to Colonel Proctor, and his report, and other messages and directions are laid before you for your information and as evidences that all proper lenient measures preceded the exercise of coercion.

THE PRESENT TENSE."This tense is sometimes applied to represent the actions of persons long since dead; as, 'Seneca reasons and moralizes well; An HONEST MAN IS the noblest work of God.'"Ib., p.

Goaded into fury, the Wyandot chief blackened his face and rushed off to the Seneca village, where he tomahawked his friend and rushed out of the lodge with his scalp.

On the third of April, 1764, Sir William Johnson concluded preliminary articles of peace and friendship with eight deputies of the Seneca nation, which was the only one of the Iroquois who joined Pontiac.

Seneca doth little less, lib. 7. epist.

Seneca endeavours to make her speak; but the gaudy show, with which he rather loads than adorns her, makes us think, that he took some phantom of Melpomene for the Muse herself.

Nam quis amphoram exsiccans foecem exorberet (Seneca epist.

"O sweet bands (Seneca exclaims), which so happily combine, that those which are bound by them love their binders, desiring withal much more harder to be bound," and as so many Geryons to be united into one.

I've known a Seneca chief laugh for six hours on end at the torture-stake.

Herodotus Thucydides, Xenophon Roman historians Julius Caesar Livy Tacitus Orators Pericles Demosthenes Aeschines Cicero Learned men: Varro Seneca Quintilian Lucian Authorities LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. VOLUME I. Agapè, or Love Feast among the Early Christians Frontispiece After the painting by J.A. Mazerolle.

Mr. Moore was the son of a Seneca mother and Cherokee father, with not a drop of white blood in his veins.

"Seneca saepe noster," "Seneca, often our own," is the expression of Tertullian, and he uses it as an excuse for frequent references to his works.

" Seneca pleadeth hard for poverty, and so did those lazy philosophers: but in the meantime he was rich, they had wherewithal to maintain themselves; but doth any poor man extol it?

We went on swimmingly, passing through the Seneca reservation, where the picturesque costume of the Indians seen on shore served to give additional interest to scenes of the deepest and wildest character.

"We met a Seneca runner who had seen him.

His longer poems were, no doubt, nerveless and insipid, deserving the scornful criticism of Tacitus and Persius; but the fragments preserved by Seneca shew that he had some skill in polishing far-fetched conceits.

Marked with the Seneca symbol to whom they were delivered before scalping.

Look at Schuylera gentleman, if ever there was one on this rotten earthstanding, belts in hand, before the sachems of the confederacy, not soliciting Cayuga support, not begging Seneca aid, not proposing a foul alliance with the Onondagas; but demanding right manfully that the confederacy remain neutral; nay, more, he repulsed offers of warriors from the Oneidas to scout for him, knowing what that sweet word 'scout' impliedGod bless him

The Iroquois Seneca women could chase lazy husbands from the premises, and could even depose a chief.

Even in the time of Seneca applause was given to any words which the audience felt at once to be true and to hit the mark.

We ought to realize this fact if we would judge of Seneca aright.

Seneca de beat.

Thus it came about that parties of young Seneca braves fought with the Delawares in all their wars against us.