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Wyandotte
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Title: Wyandotte
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
Release Date: December 11, 2003 [eBook #10434]
Language: English
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Wyandotté;
or,
The Hutted Knoll.
A Tale.
Complete in One Volume.
By J. Fenimore Cooper.
1871.
"I venerate the Pilgrim's cause, Yet for the red man dare to plead: We bow to Heaven's recorded laws, He turns to Nature for his creed."
Sprague.
Preface.
The history of the borders is filled with legends of the sufferings of isolated families, during the troubled scenes of colonial warfare. Those which we now offer to the reader, are distinctive in many of their leading facts, if not rigidly true in the details. The first alone is necessary to the legitimate objects of fiction.
One of the misfortunes of a nation, is to hear little besides its own praises. Although the American revolution was probably as just an effort as was ever made by a people to resist the first inroads of oppression, the cause had its evil aspects, as well as all other human struggles. We have been so much accustomed to hear everything extolled, of late years, that could be dragged into t