Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . ward the close of theRevolution, gave him a lichly-erabioideied scarlet jacket, which he took great pleasure in were presented to him, as one was worn out; and even as late as the treaty at Canandaigua, in1794, Captain Paiish, one of the United States interpreters, gave him one. The red jacket became hisdistinctive dress, and procured him the name by which he is best known. 2. Thomis Morris says that Red Jacket was called the cow-kil
Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . ward the close of theRevolution, gave him a lichly-erabioideied scarlet jacket, which he took great pleasure in were presented to him, as one was worn out; and even as late as the treaty at Canandaigua, in1794, Captain Paiish, one of the United States interpreters, gave him one. The red jacket became hisdistinctive dress, and procured him the name by which he is best known. 2. Thomis Morris says that Red Jacket was called the cow-killer from the circumstance that, havingon one occ ision during the Revolution, aroused his people to fight, was found, during the engagement,in a place of safety, cutting up a cow that he had killed, which belonged to another Indian. WhenCornplanter, Brant, and Red Jacket, were at Morris tc^le, one day, Cornplanter told the story, as ifanother Indian had committed the act. The narrator and i>rant laughed heartily, and Red Jacket en-deavored io join ihem, but was evidently very much embarrassed, 3. See sketch of Cornplanter. RED JACKET. 265. of our national government, in behalf of his race, and was always treated withthe utmost respect Unlike Cornplanter, Red Jackets paganism never yielded to the gentle in-fluences of Christianity, and he was the most inveterate enemy to all missionaryefforts among the Senecas. He had become a slave to strong drink, and heattributed tlio prevalence of the vice among his people to the missionaries, who,he said, sold liquor to the Indians, and cheated them of property. On the i)reak-ing out of the war, in 1812, the Senecas, under the leadership of Red Jacket,declared themselves neutral, but they soon became allies of the United States,and engaged in hostilities on the Canada frontier. Red Jacket was in the bloodybattle at Chippewa, and behaved well, but he seems to have been constitution-ally a coward, and was always far braver in council than
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