with wonder, mingled with awe.

{hatchet shaped = William Henry Seward was famous for
his angular, hatchet-shaped nose}

"We see here the wicked See-wise. The Great Spirit--call
him Manitou, or call him God--does not forget what is
wrong, or what is right. The wicked may flourish for a
while, but there is a law that is certain to bring him within
the power of punishment. Evil spirits go up and down
among us, but there is a limit they can not pass. But
Indians like this Swimming Seneca do much harm. They
mislead the ignorant, arouse evil passions, and raise
themselves into authority by their dupes. The man who
tells the people their faults is a truer friend than he who
harps only on their good qualities. Be that only a tree, or
be it a man bound in this form, for a thousand winters, by
the hand of the Great Spirit, it tells the same story. See-
wise did once live. His career comes to us in traditions, and
we believe all that our fathers told us. Accursed be the
man who deceives, and who opens his mouth only to lie!
Accursed, too, is the land that neglects the counsels of the
fathers to follow those of the sons!"

"There is a remarkable resemblance between this little
incident in the history of the Senecas and events that are
passing among our pale-faced race of the present age.
Men who, in their hearts, really care no more for mankind
than See-wise cared for the fish, lift their voices in shouts
of a spurious humanity, in order to raise themselves to