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Show ' ' '' ' , " MIANTONOMOH Into the governor's own pew of the old Boston church, one Sunday in 1632, stalked a gigantic Indian causing as much excitement and general commotion commo-tion as a hawk in a dove cote. From mouth to mouth was whispered the news that the strange visitor was MI-antonomoh, MI-antonomoh, the famous sachem, who, with his uncle, Canonlcus, ruled the mighty Narragansett "nation." He had come to Boston on a mission of peace, and was the honored guest of Governor Winthrop. In fact, all the authorities put themselves to vast trouble to mate the visit pleasant for this grim, wise, silent young Indian For it was needful Just then to court the friendship of the Narragansetts. Mlantonomoh, being only a savage, believed in all the Puritans' protesta tions of friendship. To his uncorrupt-ed uncorrupt-ed Indian mind a pledge of friendship was sacred, and friends should stick together through good and evil fortune for-tune alike. A Trust That Was Betrayed. Mlantonomoh, when Canonlcus died In 1636, became sole ruler of the Narragansetts, Nar-ragansetts, Rhode Island being his headquarters, and his ewn palace-wigwam palace-wigwam being perched on what Is now known as Tonomy hill, Just north of Newport When the gentle clergyman, clergy-man, Roger Williams, was driven from Massachusetts by the Puritans he was warmly welcomed by Miantonomoh, who gave him land and provisions. In 1637, when the Pequot war began, Miantonomoh sent the governor of Massachusetts the hand of a slain Pequot Pe-quot and 240 feet of wampum as an evidence of his own people's friendliness. friend-liness. When the colonists that year marched against the Pequots, Miantonomoh Mian-tonomoh and his braves Joined the militia. This action made the Pequots hate Miantonomoh. They sent him word that If ever he should fall Into their hands they would . punish his treachery toward them and his friendship friend-ship for the settlers by boiling him In a caldron of oil. Uncas, the Mohegan chief, was looming up more and more Important In Indian politics. The Puritans saw the urgent need of securing the friend ship of so powerful a leader. But antonomoh and Uncas were sworn ej emies. The colonists' rulers Urgj the two foes to make peace, but Mi. antonomoh, as ever, followed the & vies of his white friends. In 1033 hi and Uncas signed a treaty of frteci' ship (dictated by the colonists), wtjr'v included a promise to leave all d ,. putea to the English for settlement. The Penalty of Friendship. In 1643 Uncas made war 011 one c the Narragansett sub-chiefs, Seqojs. son. Miantonomoh, faithful to tLs terms of his treaty, asked leave of t: governor of Hartford to avenge the! attack. Permission was granted, sni with 1,000 Narragansetts he marcbj against Uncas and 500 Mohegans. Tie armies met near Norwich. Mian-o. nomoh wore a coat of mail a g from the English, of which he wai very proud, but which hampered tii V movements. Uncas challenged him 10 single combat. Miantonomoh haush. tlly refused, saying his followers were there to fight While the parley was going on Uncas gave a sudden sign, and the Mohegans fell upon their unprepared un-prepared foes, defeating them and taking tak-ing Miantonomoh prisoner. The lat-ter's lat-ter's flight was Impeded by the En?-lish En?-lish coat of mail. Uncas brought Miantonomoh Mi-antonomoh before a colonial court at Boston. There, in spite of the fact that he had earlier proved his innocence inno-cence of the same charge, the captive was found guilty of conspiring against the English. The commissioners, 03 the plea that their ally Uncas' IL'e would be in danger aB long as Miantonomoh Mian-tonomoh should live, condemned the gallant sachem to death. Miantonomoh had trusted and loved the English. They sacrificed him to Uncas and even gave the Mohegan permission to carry out the execution. The only stipulation the white dt made, in memory of Mlantonorr.ci'3 former services, was that he shou'.tj V be merely killed not tortured as vt. So the fallen sachem was led b?. k to the scene of the lost battle, near ':: wlch, and there struck dead by a tc-ahawk tc-ahawk blow. (Copyright.) I LOGAN His real name was not Logan, but Tah"-gah-Jute. He was the son of a famous fa-mous Cayuga chief and was born about 1725 near the Moravian settlement in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania. His father was the white man's loyal friend and admirer, and not only brought up his boy to reverence and love the colonists, but Insisted on giving giv-ing him an English name. So the youngster was called "John Logan," in honor of William Penn's secretary. Throughout Pennsylvania, and Virginia Vir-ginia as well, young Logan grew to be known and respected. He was pointed out as a proof that Indians could become be-come civilized and could be as brothers broth-ers to the white man. Logan's fame as a trapper, hunter and trader spread throughout the whole region. His influence in-fluence with his fellow Indians was great. The MIngoes chose him for their chief. Friendship Turned to Hate. Up in 1774 when he was nearly 50 the life of Logan had not been much more noteworthy than that of a New York policeman. Had he died then, his name would now be forgotten. His biography would have held no more or less historical Interest than that of any other commonplace, well-behaved man. But In 1774 there were disturbances between some Ohio river Indians and the frontier settlers. A few lives were lost and a band of white"land Jobbers" decided to overawe the savages by a show of severity. These frontiersmen frontiers-men chose the peaceful Logan as an example. They swooped down upon his cabin, destroyed it and killed nearly near-ly all the friendly chief's family and near relatives. Logan himself escaped es-caped the massacre. But his lifelong love and trust toward the white man was changed In an instant to murderous mur-derous hate. He took the warpath and attacked every white settlement within reach. In that one wild campaign cam-paign he, single-handed, killed and scalped no less than 30 persons. He believed rightly or wrongly that Cnpt. Michael Cresap, a frontier celebrity, celeb-rity, was leader of the men who murdered mur-dered his family. And against Cresap he swore horrible vengeance, sending him this note, tied to a blood-stained war club: "Capt. Cresap: Why did you kill wj people? You killed my kin and took my cousin prisoner. Then I thought I must kill, too. I have tee: three times to war." Not content with personal vengeance, ven-geance, Logan is said to have stirrei up other Indian tribes against the colonists. col-onists. At any rate, that same autumn, au-tumn, 1,500 braves sprang to arms an! ravaged the surrounding country. A thousand Virginia militiamen sent against them, and a fierce t.vtle was fought near the mouth of tie Great Kanawha river. The Indians were so badly defeated that they I f ged for peace. Lord Dunmore, colonial colo-nial governor, sent for their chat's to come to a conference. Logan a'.cns refused to obey. His brother-in-la. john Gibson, was bidden to fetch tin In answer to the summons, Leg".: sent the following historic which generations of schoolboys have since declaimed: Story of Logan's Wrongs. "I appeal to any white man to say if ever he entered Logan's cabin but- gry and he gave him not meat; If ever he came cold and naked and he clotbe-1 him not. During the course of tie last long and bloody war Logan remained re-mained Idle In his cabiD, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for tie whites that my countrymen pointed a5 they passed and said: 'Logan is tie friend of the white man.' I had even thought to have lived with you, but fw the Injuries of one man. Capt. Cresap-the Cresap-the last spring, In cold blood and unprovoked, un-provoked, murdered all the relations of Logan, not even sparing my wontes and children. There runs not a drop 1 of my blood in the veins of any Hvic-creature. Hvic-creature. This called on me for revenge. re-venge. I have sought It I have many. I have glutted my vengeance- Henceforth, Logan became a hopeless hope-less drunkard. He gave way to nel-ancholy nel-ancholy and to wild fits of temper. I" one of these rages, during the summer sum-mer of 17S0, he struck his wife sense-iess sense-iess to the ground. Believing be bad killed her, he fled. Near Detroit be .came npon a party of Indians from bs own tribe. He thought they had ecu to arrest him. So, leaping from b' horse, rifle in hand, he swore be wou.J die fighting. He sprang at them before be-fore they could explain. In the conflict con-flict that followed he was shot dead, In self defense, by a brave named Tod-ha-dhos Logan's own nephew. (Copyright.) 1 f |