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politician of Europe can dig the secret. In war, 
they are treacherous more than brave; stratagem 
and ambuscade constitute their military tactics, 
and they measure their triumphs, not by the 
manly resistance which as men they have over- 
come, but by the insidious violation of faith, by 
springing upon their destined prey in all the con- 
fidence of security, by their merciless use of an 
inglorious victory, and the undistinguishing mas- 
sacre of age and sex. 
In this representation I may be supposed to 
exhibit the portrait only of the North-American 
tribes; but the history of every rude and un- 
civilized nation presents the same features ; and 
in this very century the Chinese, whom I have 
not excepted from the class of barbarians, have 
exhibited a dreadful specimen of this insidious, 
unmanly, and savage character. The late 
emperor of China, jealous of a numerous and 
powerful Tartar horde, and, if I remember 
aright, one of the very tribe from which him- 
self was descended, allured them by faithless 
promises, till he had drawn around them a‘cordon 
of his numerous hosts. Then in the true spirit 
of a savage, he issued the word, and appeased 
his fears by putting them all to the sword, He 
exterminated nearly three millions of human 
beings at a blow. 
Such are the representatives of the native 
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