BY HENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFT, A MEMBER: AT ITS THIRD ANNUAL COUNCIL, AUGUST 14, 1845. ALSO, BY W. H. C. HOSMER, A MEMBER: PRONOUNCED ON THE SAME OCCASION. PUBLISHED BY THE CONFEDERACY. ROCHESTER: PRINTED BY JEROME & BROTHER, TALMAN BLOCK, Sign of the American Eagle, Buffalo-Street. 1846. BY W. H. C. HOSMER, A MEMBER: PRONOUNCED ON THE SAME OCCASION. PUBLISHED BY THE CONFEDERACY. ROCHESTER: PRINTED BY JEROME & BROTHER, TALMAN BLOCK, Sign of the American Eagle, Buffalo-Street. 1846....

Gentlemen: In a country like ours, whose institutions rest on the popular will, we must rely for our social and literary means and honors, exclusively on personal exertions, springing from the bosom of society. We have no external helps and reliances, sealed in expectations of public patronage, held by the hands of executive, or ministerial power. Our ancestors, it is true, were accustomed to such stimulants to literary exertions. Titles and honors were the prerogatives of Kings, who sometimes s

In Indian mythology may be found the richest poetic materials. An American Author is unworthy of the land that gave him birth if he passes by with indifference this well-spring of inspiration, sending liberally forth a thousand enchanted streams. It has given spiritual inhabitants to our valleys, rivers, hills and inland seas; it has peopled the dim and awful depths of our forests with spectres, and, by the power of association, given our scenery a charm that will make it attractive forever. The

BY WILLIAM H. C. HOSMER. WRITTEN AT THE REQUEST OF THE "NEW CONFEDERATION OF THE IROQUOIS," AND PRONOUNCED BEFORE THEM IN GENERAL COUNCIL, AT AURORA, AUGUST 15th, 1845. No one but a brave who has slain an enemy in battle, is allowed the distinguished honor of wearing eagle feathers. Objects clear and bright are often compared by the Indian to the elk's eye. The definition of Muskingum is—"clear as an elk's eye." The red man believes that the whites sprang from the foam of the salt water. [F] Bri