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Title: The origin, progress, and conclusion of the Florida war : to which is appended a record of officers, non-commissioned offices, musicians, and privates of the U. S. Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, who were killed in battle, or died of disease : as also the names of officers who were distinguished by brevets, and the names of others recommended : together with the orders for collecting the remains of the dead in Florida, and the ceremony of interment at St. Augustine, East Florida, on the fourteenth day of August, 1842
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Sprague, J. T. (John Titcomb), 1810-1878
Subjects: Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & company Philadelphia : G. S. Appleton
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pated by many,and the defeat predicted by others. Colonel Worth, his staff, with a number of officers, togetherwith intelligent interpreters, proceeded on board at 10 A. M.Coacooche, pale and haggard, ^eceived all with marked dignityand coolness. He and his companions, fifteen hardy young men,were closely ironed, surrounded by a guard of thirty soldiers.His present interview contrasted strongly with his first, at FortCummings, in March. Then, he had a bold, dashing demeanor;now, he was calm, quiet, and subdued. Those limbs which trodthe soil, now forbidden ground, but again spreading out beforehim, with as much freedom as the aspirations of his mind, weredegraded by shackles, the clank of which is never effaced in therecollection of an Indian. Around him w^ere his well-tried andsavage companions, who followed him in his war-path, and hadbeen governed by his counsels. To those who are not engaged, and are removed from theimmediate participations in incidents of this kind, there is much
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THE FLORIDA WAR. 287 to create a high degree of enthusiasm, even of triumph. But tothe officer of the government who perfects the pohcy so un-avoidably adhered to towards the Indian, there are humilia-tions and embarrassments almost sufficient to deter him from theexecution of the orders enjoined, or what to many appear thereasonable expectations of citizens. He has to observe stern andinflexible justice on one side, and forbearance and humanity onthe other; and whether the administration of justice be in con-sonance with the rights and feelings of the Indians, is a subjectnot to be descanted upon or discussed. The laws and habits ofthe white man, like the wash of the sea, must and will efface thefootstep of every Indian from the soil. Even that which theofficer seeks in his profession, distinction, is narrowed down toso small a compass, and attended with so much unworthy ofhis blade, that he becomes indifferent to it, content with theconscientious conviction that to his country he pe

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