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revenge; and when Tecumseh, the Shawnee warrior, 

 who was the chief instigator of these atrocities, urged 

 the British to liazard an engagement at the Thames, 

 after their defeat by Perry, they prepared to return 

 with full interest the blow given tlieir comrades on the 

 Raisin. The battle of the Thames is well known. 

 Tecumseh, with the war cry on his lips, met his re- 

 ward through a Kentucky bullet early enough in the 

 fight to be spared the shame of defeat. With him fell 

 a powerful foe, but one whom we must admire even in 

 his death. 



"Like monumental bronze, unchanged his look, 

 As one whom pity touched, but never shook; 

 Train'd from his tree-rocked cradle to his bier 

 The fierce extremes of good and ill to brook. 

 Unchanging, fearing but the shame of fear, 

 A stoic of the woods, a man without a tear." 



0^x)entti-sii*tl) JPag. 



Strong*s Hotels 



Monroe, Michigan, 



July I'wenty-sixth. 



Received a large forwarded mail from my advance 

 agents and others, which I attended to in the after- 

 noon. I was also favored with Detroit papers refer- 

 ring to my proposed lecture in that city,' and the fol- 

 lowing notice from the Monroe 3Ioyiitor^ which, together 

 with letters from the Fund Association, I kept as 

 souvenirs of my stay at this place : 



" The lecture announced to be given for the benefit of the Custer 

 Monument Fund, on Monday evening, at the City Hall, was post, 

 poned for various reasons until Thursday evening, at the same 

 place. On Monday evening several members of the association met 



