Excerpt from Thayendanegea an Historico-Military Drama
I avail myself of an introduction mainly to record the motives which led me to compose this poem.
I formed the opinion, first, that it was the bounden duty of someone to enter the breach, in order to rid the situation of the singular-not to say affronting- anomaly to be traced through the circumstance of the character and actions of Tecumseh having enlisted the machinery of the drama for their attractive exposition, whilst those of the earlier companion upholder of British supremacy on the continent- one endowed with a many-sided capacity, plainly denied to the other (barely his compeer even in the way of military distinction) one who acquired equal celebrity for his bearing in the martial camp, beside the Council-fire, and in the field of diplomacy, remain uncompleted by any memorial tribute tendered him of the kind.
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