Unenlightened man-- A savage, roaming through the woods and wilds In quest of prey, and with th' unfashiomed fur Bough clad. At the period when "Nick of the Woods" was written, the genius of Chateaubriand and of Cooper had thrown a poetical illusion over the Indian character; and the red men were presented--almost stereotyped in the popular mind--as the embodiments of grand and tender sentiment--a new style of the beau-ideal--brave, gentle, loving, refined, honourable, romantic personages--nature's nobles, the chivalry of the forest. It may be submitted that such are not the lineaments of the race--that they never were the lineaments of any race existing in an uncivilised state--indeed, cou…
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