American, who, after a run of six months in Europe,
returns home with the patriotic declaration in his mouth,
that his native land is preferable to all other lands. Fuller
soon understood the case, when both reverted to their
common object in coming thither. The young Seneca
thereupon resumed his explanation.

{the young Indian = almost certainly based on Abraham
La Fort or De-hat-ka-tons (1799-1848), an Oneida Indian
who attended Geneva College in the late 1820s, but who
later abandoned Christianity and returned to his traditional
way of life}

"These laws of the Great Spirit," continued the Seneca,
"were not difficult to obey so long as the warrior was of a
humble mind, and believed himself inferior to the Manitou,
who had fashioned him with His hands, and placed him
between the Seneca and the Cayuga, to hunt the deer and
trap the beaver. But See-wise was one of those who
practiced arts that you pale-faces condemn, while you
submit to them. He was a demagogue among the red men,
and set up the tribe in opposition to the Manitou."

{See-wise = intended to represent William Henry Seward's
surname}

"How," exclaimed Fuller, "did the dwellers in the forest
suffer by such practices?"

"Men are every where the same, let the color, or the tribe,