244 



MISSIONARIES. 



that some have more power, or are heads of 

 larger tribes than himself, yet such is his native 

 pride, and freedom of manners, that he would 

 enter a palace with as much ease as a fisherman's 

 hut. The wild range of the woods, and the 

 waters which expand to his view, are the open 

 and free source from whence, by his own exer- 

 tions, he derives a supply for his wants. He 

 naturally possesses a high degree of self-import- 

 ance ; he differs greatly in sentiment and opi- 

 nion, and in his mode of life, from civilized 

 man, who is under the influence of artificial 

 wants ; as well as from those who derive a pre- 

 carious subsi stance, in confirmed habits of 

 dependence upon others. It cannot then be 

 reasonably expected that a high independent 

 chief will leave, with his tribe, the full range of 

 their liberty through the forests and the plains, 

 and enter the pale of civilization with the 

 whites, through any means of servitude and 

 subjection, or seek to adopt their habits and 

 sentiments, without a steady encouragement, 

 and a certainty of enjoying all their rights and 

 privileges. When a Missionary Society in Scot- 

 land sent two Missionaries for propagating the 

 Gospel to the Delaware nation of Indians, the 

 chiefs assembled in council, and after delib- 

 erating for fourteen days, sent back the Mis- 



