If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
He was a man, that he always performed his promises, that he had never said he would return.
Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?
May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.