Wyandotte

Chapter 21

"For thee they fought, for thee they fell,

And their oath was on thee laid;

To thee the clarions raised their swell,

And the dying warriors pray'd."

Percival.

The distaste for each other which existed between the people of New

England and those of the adjoining colonies, anterior to the war of the

revolution, is a matter of history. It was this feeling that threw

Schuyler, one of the ablest and best men in the service of his country,

into the shade, a year later than the period of which we are writing.

This feeling was very naturally produced, and, under the circumstances,

was quite likely to be active in a revolution. Although New England and

New York were contiguous territories, a wide difference existed between

their social conditions. Out of the larger towns, there could s