Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea) - Mohawk
No person among us desires any other reward for performing
a brave and worth action, but the consciousness of having
served his nation.
Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea) - Mohawk
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Our wise men are called Fathers, and they truly sustain that
character. Do you call yourselves Christians? Does then the
religion of Him whom you call your Savior inspire your spirit,
and guide your practices? Surely not.
It is recorded of him that a bruised reed he never broke.
Cease, then, to call yourselves Christians, lest you declare
to the world your hypocrisy. Cease, too, to call other nations
savage, when you are tenfold more the children of cruelty
than they.
Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea) - Mohawk
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In the government you call civilized, the happiness of the
people is constantly sacrificed to the splendor of empire.
Hence the origin of your codes of criminal and civil laws;
hence your dungeons and prisons. We have no prisons; we have
no pompous parade of courts; we have no written laws; and
yet judges as highly revered among us as they are among you,
and their decisIons are as much regarded.
We have among us no exalted villains above the control of
our laws. Daring wickedness here is never allowed to triumph
over helpless innocence. The estates of widows and orphans
are never devoured by enterprising swindlers.
We have no robbery under the pretext of law.
Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea) - Mohawk
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