till, gave him his freedom and clothed and fed
him as long as he lived thereafter--till about 1835.

"A year or two after the close of the Revolutionary war, a Mr.
Woods was living near Crab Orchard, Kentucky, with his wife, one
daughter (said to be ten years old), and a lame Negro man. Early
one morning, her husband being away, Mrs. Woods when a short
distance from the house, discovered seven or eight Indians in
ambush. She ran back into the house, so closely pursued that before
she could fasten the door one of the savages forced his way in. The
Negro instantly seized him. In the scuffle the Indian threw him,
falling on top. The Negro held him in a strong grasp and called to
the girl to take an axe which was in the room and kill him. This
she did by two well-aimed blows; and the Negro then asked Mrs.
Woods to let in another that he with the axe might dispatch him as
he came and so, one by one, kill them all. By this time, however,
some men from the station nearby, having discovered that the house
was attacked, had come up and opened fire on the savages, by which
one was killed and the others put to flight."

CHAPTER X.

FROM LEXINGTON TO CARRIZAL.

NEGRO IN WAR OF 1812--INCIDENT OF THE CHESAPEAKE--BATTLE OF LAKE
ERIE--PERRY'S FIGHTERS 10 PERCENT NEGROES--INCIDENT OF THE "GOVERNOR
TOMPKINS"--COLONISTS FORM NEGRO REGIMENTS--DEFENSE OF NEW
ORLEANS--ANDREW JACKSON'S TRIBUTE--NEGROES IN MEXICAN AND CIVIL WARS--IN
THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR--NEGROES IN THE PHILIPPINES--HEROES OF
CARRIZAL--GENERAL BUTLER'S TRIBUTE TO NEGROES--WENDELL PHILLIPS ON
TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE.

Prior to the actual war of 1812 and one of the most conspicuous causes
leading to it, was the attack on the Chesapeake, an American war vessel.
Here the Negro in the Navy figured in a most remarkable degree. The
vessel was hailed, fired upon and forced to strike her colors by the
British. She was boarded, searched and four persons taken from the crew
charged with desertion from the English navy. Three of these were
Negroes and one white. The charge against the Negroes could not have
been very strong, for they were dismissed, while the white man was
hanged.

The naval history of our second war with Great Britain is replete with
incidents concerning the participation of the Negro. Mackenzie's history
of the life of Commodore Perry states that at the famed battle of