92 Cincinnati Society of Natural Fiistory. 
Brant, Sequoya, Tamanend (Del.), 
Red Jacket, Opathele Tahola, David Cusick, 
Corn Planter, Black Hawk, Canon-chet, 
Uncas, Keokuk, Mica-nopil, 
King Philip, Osceola, Little Hill (Winne- 
Hiawatha (of the Six Nations), bago). 
I think there can be no doubt in the mind of any one who has 
studied the history of the North American Indians, that the civili- 
zation of the Aztecs would have extended itself over our conti- 
nent. When we consider their high culture, their progressive 
_ policy and their great valor—they had already compelled the 
neighboring nations to pay them tribute, and were extending their 
dominion wherever they could find organized nations to conquer. 
It wanted only that the cruel invasion and policy of extermina- 
tion of the Spaniards could have been delayed another century. 
The Anglo-Saxons and the Gauls, when conquered by Cesar, 
were in an inferior state of civilization to the races that peopled the 
regions of Anahuac, and they, when relieved from the cruel 
oppression of the Romans, developed into the grandest nations of 
the eastern hemisphere, the kingdom of Great Britain and the 
Empire of Germany. Butin this hemisphere, cruelty, tyranny and 
oppression entirely destroyed the development of the Red Men. 
