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Title: An Address, Delivered Before the Was-ah Ho-de-no-son-ne or New Confederacy of the Iroquois
Also, Genundewah, a Poem

Author: Henry R. Schoolcraft
W. H. C. Hosmer

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Language: English

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AN
ADDRESS,
DELIVERED BEFORE THE
WAS-AH HO-DE-NO-SON-NE
OR
NEW CONFEDERACY OF THE IROQUOIS,

BY

HENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFT,

A MEMBER:
AT ITS THIRD ANNUAL COUNCIL,
AUGUST 14, 1845.

ALSO,

GENUNDEWAH,
A POEM,

BY

W. H. C. HOSMER,

A MEMBER:

PRONOUNCED ON THE SAME OCCASION.

PUBLISHED BY THE CONFEDERACY.

ROCHESTER:
PRINTED BY JEROME & BROTHER, TALMAN BLOCK,
Sign of the American Eagle, Buffalo-Street.

1846.

ADDRESS.

GENTLEMEN:

In a country like ours, whose institutions rest on the popular will, we
must rely for our social and literary means and honors, exclusively on
personal exertions, springing from the bosom of society. We have no
external helps and reliances, sealed in expectations of public
patronage, held by the hands of executive, or ministerial power. Our
ancestors, it is true, were accustomed to such stimulants to literary
exertions. Titles and honors were the prerogatives of Kings, who
sometimes stooped from their political eminences, to bestow the reward
upon the brows of men, who had rendered their names conspicuous in the
fields of science and letters. Such is still the hope of men of letters
in England, Germany and France. But if a bold and hardy ancestry, who
had learned the art of thought in the bitter school of experience, were
accustomed to such dispensations of royal favors, while they remained in
Europe, they feel b