. The deerslayer : or, The first war-path, a tale . ES. been a very distinguished agent of the government,one very familiar with Indians, as they are seen at thecouncils to treat for the sale of their lands, where littleor none of their domestic qualities come in play, andwhere, indeed, their evil passions are known to havethe fullest scope. As just would it be to draw conclu-sions of the general state of American society fromthe scenes of the capital, as to suppose that thenegotiating of one of these treaties is a fair picture ofIndian life. It is the privilege of all writers of fiction, more
. The deerslayer : or, The first war-path, a tale . ES. been a very distinguished agent of the government,one very familiar with Indians, as they are seen at thecouncils to treat for the sale of their lands, where littleor none of their domestic qualities come in play, andwhere, indeed, their evil passions are known to havethe fullest scope. As just would it be to draw conclu-sions of the general state of American society fromthe scenes of the capital, as to suppose that thenegotiating of one of these treaties is a fair picture ofIndian life. It is the privilege of all writers of fiction, moreparticularly when their works aspire to the etevationof romances, to present the beau-ideal of theircharacters to the reader. This it is which constitutespoetry, and to suppose that the red man is to berepresented only in the squalid misery or in thedegraded moral state that certainly more or less belongsto his condition, is, we apprehend, taking a very narrowview of an authors privileges. Such criticism wouldhave deprived the world of even
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