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.VI.Some thirteen months after the defeat of the federatedtribes, with the great treaty signed inGreenville's council house, men began to bereleased from Wayne's command.Abraham Kent wasone.Turning Sprite over to the new cornet whose mountshe would become, he spoke with the unconsciouslycondescending air of the veteran addressing the greenreplacement.Take care of her.She's a splendidcampaigner-His natural manner broke through thefeigned superiority; he smiled in a ruefulway."combetter than I am, in fact.There's aPage 24 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlgreat deal to recommend this western country,Cornet.But I don't have much fondness for thehuman price paid for settling the question of itsownership.I mean the price on both sides."The new junior officer merely looked puzzled."One final word of advice," Abraham added, with abroad wink."It's in reference to the whiskey theyfreight up from Kentucky.Or Kaintuck, if youprefer.If you can survive the first few sips-anddevelop a fondness for it-you can face the worstlife has to offer out here.The Kentucky brew, incase I don't make myself clear, ispotent as hell.It's also necessary as hell."He was only partially joking.Clouds at HomecomingAFTER THE MAGNIFICENT dinner, Abrahamheld forth for a quarter of an hour.He described how more than eleven hundredbraves and sachems of the northwestern tribes hadcome to Greenville the preceding August to listento Wayne's passionate, if lengthy, speeches ofpersuasion.Dressed in a fine suit of brownNew England broadcloth, he jumped to his feetas he launched into the closing of the general's lastspeech, which he'd memorized:"comI now take the hatchet out of your hands-wasAbraham added gestures to the recitation, aware thatfour pairs of eyes were focused on him with varyingdegrees of attentiveness.One pairparticularly-eyes at which he dared not glance-stirredhim in a strange and surprising way.His voicestrengthened:"comandwitha strong arm throw it into the center of the greatocean, where no mortal can ever find it!" A mimedthrow dramatized the line."And I now deliver to youthe wide and straight path to the Fifteen Fires,to be used by you and your posterity forever.So longas you continue to follow this road, so long will you continueto be a happy people.You see it is straight andwide-and they will be blind indeed who deviate from it!"Flushed, Abraham paused.He'd jumped upalmost unconsciously, carried away with excitement.He sat down before going on:"That was virtually the end of it.Wayne had wonthem-every important chief and brave in the NorthwestTerritory except one.A Shawnee namedTecumseh.He refused to come to Greenville becausehis father was shot to death by white hunters when he was aboy comand he saw his village burned on orders ofGeorge Rogers Clark just a couple of yearslater.The day after Wayne's speech, the chiefsbegan signing.They're to receive twenty thousanddollars this first year, half that in succeeding years inreturn for the land they've given up.I've heard thearea amounts to as much as twenty-five thousand squaremiles.The treaty land runs roughly east to west,from a river called the Cuyahoga to FortRecovery.There, it angles down toward theOhio.Everything south and east of the line is reservedfor white settlement.The Indians must stay to thePage 25 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlnorth and west- but Wayne very cannily granted thetribes the right to hunt and fish all the wayto the Ohio so long as they conduct themselves peacefully.At the same time, he negotiated U.s.possession of sixteen choice parcels within theIndian territory.Altogether, the terms were complexto explain to the sachems.But they were eager to sign whenthe general finished speaking.I was listening outside thecouncil house a good part of the time, and I've neverheard such eloquent delivery.""Nor I," said Elizabeth, seated onAbraham's right.He couldn't help turning redagain.He wanted to look into the girl's pale blueeyes; wanted to savor the sight of her fair,perfectly coiffed hair and the fetchingly roundedbreasts that had barely been visible on her slimbody when he left for Pittsburgh three yearsearlier.But Abraham Kent had served in the army.He coulddiscipline himself.Instead of making a show overElizabeth's admiration, he acknowledged hisstepmother'ssmile from the lower end of the table, and kept his eyeson her as she spoke:"I agree, Elizabeth.We may have raised anorator as well as a soldier."Peggy Ashford McLean Kent's smooth whitehands rested on the polished surface of the great diningtable imported from Mr.Phyfe's increasinglypopular-and immensely expensive-New Yorkshop.When Abraham departed for the west, the familyhad only been settled six months in the newhome on Beacon Street overlooking the Common.Since his return a week ago, he had beendazzled by the opulence of the furnishings added in hisabsence [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.VI.Some thirteen months after the defeat of the federatedtribes, with the great treaty signed inGreenville's council house, men began to bereleased from Wayne's command.Abraham Kent wasone.Turning Sprite over to the new cornet whose mountshe would become, he spoke with the unconsciouslycondescending air of the veteran addressing the greenreplacement.Take care of her.She's a splendidcampaigner-His natural manner broke through thefeigned superiority; he smiled in a ruefulway."combetter than I am, in fact.There's aPage 24 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlgreat deal to recommend this western country,Cornet.But I don't have much fondness for thehuman price paid for settling the question of itsownership.I mean the price on both sides."The new junior officer merely looked puzzled."One final word of advice," Abraham added, with abroad wink."It's in reference to the whiskey theyfreight up from Kentucky.Or Kaintuck, if youprefer.If you can survive the first few sips-anddevelop a fondness for it-you can face the worstlife has to offer out here.The Kentucky brew, incase I don't make myself clear, ispotent as hell.It's also necessary as hell."He was only partially joking.Clouds at HomecomingAFTER THE MAGNIFICENT dinner, Abrahamheld forth for a quarter of an hour.He described how more than eleven hundredbraves and sachems of the northwestern tribes hadcome to Greenville the preceding August to listento Wayne's passionate, if lengthy, speeches ofpersuasion.Dressed in a fine suit of brownNew England broadcloth, he jumped to his feetas he launched into the closing of the general's lastspeech, which he'd memorized:"comI now take the hatchet out of your hands-wasAbraham added gestures to the recitation, aware thatfour pairs of eyes were focused on him with varyingdegrees of attentiveness.One pairparticularly-eyes at which he dared not glance-stirredhim in a strange and surprising way.His voicestrengthened:"comandwitha strong arm throw it into the center of the greatocean, where no mortal can ever find it!" A mimedthrow dramatized the line."And I now deliver to youthe wide and straight path to the Fifteen Fires,to be used by you and your posterity forever.So longas you continue to follow this road, so long will you continueto be a happy people.You see it is straight andwide-and they will be blind indeed who deviate from it!"Flushed, Abraham paused.He'd jumped upalmost unconsciously, carried away with excitement.He sat down before going on:"That was virtually the end of it.Wayne had wonthem-every important chief and brave in the NorthwestTerritory except one.A Shawnee namedTecumseh.He refused to come to Greenville becausehis father was shot to death by white hunters when he was aboy comand he saw his village burned on orders ofGeorge Rogers Clark just a couple of yearslater.The day after Wayne's speech, the chiefsbegan signing.They're to receive twenty thousanddollars this first year, half that in succeeding years inreturn for the land they've given up.I've heard thearea amounts to as much as twenty-five thousand squaremiles.The treaty land runs roughly east to west,from a river called the Cuyahoga to FortRecovery.There, it angles down toward theOhio.Everything south and east of the line is reservedfor white settlement.The Indians must stay to thePage 25 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlnorth and west- but Wayne very cannily granted thetribes the right to hunt and fish all the wayto the Ohio so long as they conduct themselves peacefully.At the same time, he negotiated U.s.possession of sixteen choice parcels within theIndian territory.Altogether, the terms were complexto explain to the sachems.But they were eager to sign whenthe general finished speaking.I was listening outside thecouncil house a good part of the time, and I've neverheard such eloquent delivery.""Nor I," said Elizabeth, seated onAbraham's right.He couldn't help turning redagain.He wanted to look into the girl's pale blueeyes; wanted to savor the sight of her fair,perfectly coiffed hair and the fetchingly roundedbreasts that had barely been visible on her slimbody when he left for Pittsburgh three yearsearlier.But Abraham Kent had served in the army.He coulddiscipline himself.Instead of making a show overElizabeth's admiration, he acknowledged hisstepmother'ssmile from the lower end of the table, and kept his eyeson her as she spoke:"I agree, Elizabeth.We may have raised anorator as well as a soldier."Peggy Ashford McLean Kent's smooth whitehands rested on the polished surface of the great diningtable imported from Mr.Phyfe's increasinglypopular-and immensely expensive-New Yorkshop.When Abraham departed for the west, the familyhad only been settled six months in the newhome on Beacon Street overlooking the Common.Since his return a week ago, he had beendazzled by the opulence of the furnishings added in hisabsence [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]