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are consequently little respect. They have in fact, no government. The authority of their chiefs is personal, and not official. If any able enterprising man rises up among them, he never fails to collect round him a considerable party, and to direct their movements to any object of public or private importance. Such a man was the late Tecumseh, who without any hereditary or elective right, by his talents and ambition, and above all, by his disinterestedness, succeeded in the establishment of a formidable coalition. Personal property from causes sufficiently investigated by speculative writers upon this subject is first exclusively appropriated to individual use. And in fact it is impossible to conceive, that any society can exist without the possessison of personal property. Although this right is acknowledged among the Indians, yet its violation is never punished by the collected will of the nation. If personal property is stolen, the owner has no redress but by its recapture, and no hope of preventing a repetition of the injury, but by promptly inficting personal punishment upon the offender. The redress of injuries is consequently in all cases the act of the Individiual injured, and the measure of the punishment, is determined by the will of the party, and his power of inflicting it. In a society thus organized, destitute alike of moral power and of physical strength, there is no passion sufficiently active to counteract their natural indolence, their improvident habits, and that attachment, to the