Raven
Others of your accursed race have, in years past, poisoned our peaceful shores. They have taught me what you are. What is your employment? To wander about like vagabonds from land to land, to rob the poor, to betray the confiding, to murder in cold blood the defenseless.No! With such a people I want no peace--no friendship. War, never ending War, exterminating War, is all the boon I ask.
You boast yourself valiant, and so you may be; but my faithful warriors are not less brave, and this too you shall one day prove; for I have sworn to maintain an unsparing conflict while one white man remains in my borders--not only in battle, though even thus we fear not to meet you, but by stratagem, ambush, and midnight surprise.
I am lord in my own land, and will never become a slave of a mortal like myself. Vile and coward is he who will submit to the yoke of another when he may be free. As for me and my people, we choose death--yes! a hundred deaths--before the loss of our liberty and the subjugation of our country.
Keep on, robbers and traitors: in these lands you call America we will treat you as you deserve. Every captive will we quarter and hang up to the highest tree along the road.
