Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . nt. But he had been adopted by them as a son, and manyof the warriors argued that this circumstance would nullify thevirtue of the sacrifice. For several days the matter was debated without being friendly informant apprised him of all that was done, and he continued to hope for the effort to escape would haveexposed him, with his wife andchildren, to certaindestruction. H eadopted the pre-caution of conceal-ing fr
Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . nt. But he had been adopted by them as a son, and manyof the warriors argued that this circumstance would nullify thevirtue of the sacrifice. For several days the matter was debated without being friendly informant apprised him of all that was done, and he continued to hope for the effort to escape would haveexposed him, with his wife andchildren, to certaindestruction. H eadopted the pre-caution of conceal-ing from his familyall knowledge ofhis situation, andas the council re-mained in sessionhis hopes of escape brightened. They were vain. One night after retiring to rest, he heard the war-whoop, andthen for the first time intimated to his wife, that he feared aparty was approaching to take his life. After exhorting her toremain quiet with the children, he went to an adjoining chamber,admitted the Indians and seated them in the outer room. Theynumbered eighteen, and were the principal men of the a short interval, the senior chief arose and informed the. THE SQUAWS ly COUNCIL. JOHN DEAN AND THE INDIANS. 359 judge that they had come to sacrifice him for their dead brother,and that he must prepare to die. To this disagreeable piece of in-formation he replied at length, affirming that as he was an adopted sonof the tribe, it would be wrong to require his blood for the wrongcommitted by a wicked white man, that he was not ready to die,and, that he could not leave his wife and children unprovided council listened with profotPnd gravity and attention, and afterhe had finished, one of the chiefs replied. The debate continued along while, but evidently little to the judges favor. When about resigning himself to his doom, the noise of footstepswas heard, and suddenly a squaw entered. She was wife to thesenior chief and the foster parent of the unfortunate white her
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