He was perfectly tamed, and Mr.B.said he never had any more trouble with him." The conviction here livingly enforced of the superiority on the side of the white man, was thus expressed by the Indian orator at Mackinaw while we were there.

After the customary compliments about sun, dew, &c., "This," said he, "is the difference between the white and the red man; the white man looks to the future and paves the way for posterity.

The red man never thought of this." This is a statement uncommonly refined for an Indian; but one of the gentlemen present, who understood the Chippewa, vouched for it as a literal rendering of his phrases; and he did indeed touch the vital point of difference.
But the Indian, if he understands, cannot make use of his intelligence.

The fate of his people is against it, and Pontiac and Philip have no more chance than Julian in the times of old.
The Indian is steady to that simple creed which forms the basis of all his mythology; that there is a God and a life beyond this; a right and wrong which each man can see, betwixt which each man should choose; that good brings with it its reward, and vice its punishment.

His moral code, if not as refined as that of civilized nations, is clear and noble in the stress laid upon truth and fidelity.