To the memory of William Penn, Roger Williams, the late lamented Helen Hunt Jackson, and many others now in Heaven, Who conceived that Noble spirit of Justice Which recognizes the Brotherhood of the Red Man, and to all others now living Defenders of our race, I most gratefully dedicate this tribute of the forest. My object in publishing the “Red Man’s Rebuke” on the bark of the white birch tree, is out of loyalty to my own people, and gratitude to the Great Spirit, who in his wisdom provided for our use for untold generations, this most remarkable tree with manifold bark used by us instead of paper, being of greater value to us as it could not be injured …
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