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Show Th Eloquent Chief, Taeuntseh. From an interview in the Indiauapoli News. "General William Henry Harrison thought the great Indian chief. Tecum-seh, Tecum-seh, was the most eloquent man in the country. He never tired of repeating Tccumseh's words at the famous conference con-ference which was held at Vincennes in 1811. I heard them so much that I learned them by heart. I remember General Harrison said that when Te-cumseh Te-cumseh was asked to sit upon a chair in the dirt-floored hut, where the conference con-ference was held, the chief straightened straight-ened up to his full height and proudly said: "The sun is my father, the earth is my mother, and I will recline on her bosom.' "So saying he waved away the proffered prof-fered chair and sat upon the ground. I knew then that there was trouble ahead, and that we would bo fortunate to escape from it," General Harrison was wont to conclude." |