226 PIONEER LIFE ; OK, 



Brother, you say that you have not come to get 

 our land o.- our m ney, but to enlighten our minds. 

 I will now tell you that 1 have been at your meet- 

 ings, and saw you collecting money from the meet- 

 ing. I cannot tell what this money was intended 

 for, but suppose it was for your minister, and if we 

 should conform to your way of thinking, perhaps 

 you may want some from us. 



Brother, we have been told that you have been 

 preaching to white people in this place ; these people 

 are our neighbors ; we are acquainted with them ; we 

 will wait awhile and see what effect it has upon them. 



SPEECH OF RED JACKET. 



"What ! do you denounce us as fools and bigoL^ 

 because we still continue to believe that which you 

 sedulously inculcated two centuries ago? Your 

 divines have thundered this doctrine from the pulpit, 

 your judges have pronounced it from the bench, 

 your courts of justice have sanctioned it with the 

 formalities of law, and you would now punish our 

 unfortunate brother (he that killed the woman) for 

 xdherance to the superstitions of his fathers! Go to 

 Salem! Look at the records of your government, 

 and you will find hundreds executed for the very 

 crime which has called forth the sentence of con- 

 demnation upon this woman, and drawn down the 

 arm of vengeance upon her. What have your bro~ 



