Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . he spoil. For three years he remained upon the boat, engaged in gambling,and, when a fair opportunity presented itself, murder. When all or a great portion of this tribe of villains were unitedby that arch-fiend Murrel, they presented a phalanx of crime thatseemed almost impregnable to the law, and could only have beenchecked, for entirely uprooted they were not, by the ultra meansadopted for this purpose in Mississippi. THRILLING AD
Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . he spoil. For three years he remained upon the boat, engaged in gambling,and, when a fair opportunity presented itself, murder. When all or a great portion of this tribe of villains were unitedby that arch-fiend Murrel, they presented a phalanx of crime thatseemed almost impregnable to the law, and could only have beenchecked, for entirely uprooted they were not, by the ultra meansadopted for this purpose in Mississippi. THRILLING ADVENTURE IN THE NORTHWEST.—HCWA BRAVE MAN SAVED DETROIT. The sixteenth of August, 1812, was a day that will be long re-membered by the people of Detroit, for it was on that day that theold and imbecile Hull, in his capacity of Governor of the MichiganTerritory, shamefully surrendered this important post, then gar-risoned by two thousand brave and efficient troops, to the Britishand Indians. 286 THRILLING ADVENTURE IN THE NORTHWEST. As soon as the articles of capitulation were signed, the enemycrossed the river from Maiden and took possession of the place,. THE INDIANS SWARMING THE STREETS OF DETROIT. followed by a rabble of vile camp followers, and all the savages thatfor some weeks had been attached to the English camp. Of coursethe citizens were thrown into the utmost dismay at the sight of thepainted Indians swarming their streets, and the knowledge that theymight at any hour, when maddened by whisky, and encouraged bytheir no less savage allies among the whites, make an indiscriminateplunder of the town. But the influence of the British general forsome days was sufficient to keep them from acts of open violence,and by degrees the townspeople became accustomed to their pres-ence, and strove by all means in their power to ingratiate them-selves into the good graces of their captors. When the news of the surrender reached the tribes of the south-west, they gathered from far a
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