It is as easy to conquer them on the land, as their whole navy would conquer ours on the ocean.

We must take the continent from them.

_I wish never to see a peace till we do._ God has given us the power and the means: we are to blame if we do not use them.

If we get the continent, she must allow us the freedom of the sea.' This is the gentleman who, afterwards, in the character of a commissioner--and it stands as a record of his unblushing apostacy--signed the treaty of peace." Tecumseh, who was slain the year following, headed a party of his warriors on this occasion, and in the rough sketch already mentioned, Major-General Brock remarked: "Among the Indians whom I found at Amherstburg, and who had arrived from distant parts of the country, there were some extraordinary characters.

He who most attracted my attention was a Shawanee chief, Tecumseh, the brother of the prophet, who for the two last years has carried on, contrary to our remonstrances, an active war against the United States.