words false.  He accused the United States of cheating and imposing upon the Indians; and then, giving a sign to his warriors near him, they sprang to their feet, seized their war clubs and brandished their tomahawks.  The governor started from his seat and drew his sword, while the citizens seized any weapons or missiles they could find.  It was a moment of great peril to the white people.  A military guard of twelve men, under some trees a short distance off, was ordered up.  A friendly Indian, who had secretly loaded his pistol while Tecumseh was speaking, now cocked it to shoot the chief.  The guards were also about to fire when Harrison restrained them and prevented a bloody encounter.  The interpreter, whom all the Indians respected, told Tecumseh that he was a bad man.  The council was broken up.  Tecumseh expressed regret that his violent temper had gotten the better of him; but prudent men knew from his conduct that war was inevitable.

In the spring of 1811, the hostile savages began to roam over the Wabash region, in small parties, plundering the white settlers and friendly Indians.

Soon after the council at Vincennes, Tecumseh went South among the Creeks to extend the confederacy of the people of Indiana among them.  There is a tradition among the Tuckabachees that Tecumseh, failing to enlist them in his enterprise, in his wrath said: 

“When I return to the North, I will stamp on the earth and make it tremble.”  When the effects of the earthquake of New Madrid were felt, the Tuckabachees said: 

“Tecumseh has reached the North.”

The hostile demonstrations on the part of the Indians in Indiana alarmed the people of that territory, and General Harrison therefore took measures to increase his regular force.  He warned the Indians to obey the treaty at Greeneville; but at the same time he prepared to break up the prophet’s establishment if necessary.  In September, the prophet sent assurances to the governor that his intentions were pacific.  About the same time, he dispatched a message to the Delawares, who were friendly, asking them to join him in a war against the United States, stating that he had taken up the tomahawk and would not lay it down but with his life, unless their wrongs were redressed.  The Delaware chiefs immediately visited the prophet to dissuade him from commencing hostilities and were grossly insulted.  On the 6th of November, 1811, Governor Harrison, with about nine hundred and fifty effective troops, composed of two hundred and fifty of the 4th Regiment U. S. Infantry, one hundred and thirty volunteers and a body of militia, being within a mile and a half of the prophet’s town, was urged to make an immediate assault upon the village; but this he declined, as his instructions from the president were positive not to attack the Indians as long as there was a probability of their complying with the demands of the government.  The Indians, in the course of the day, endeavored to