"My son, the Great Spirit has seen fit that we should die together; and has sent you here. It is his will. Let us submit. It is best..."
— Cornstalk

January 1, 1970

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To his son Elinipsico as a mob approached them in Point Pleasant (10 November 1777), as quoted in "Cornstalk, the Shawanee Chief" by Rev. William Henry Foote, in The Southern Literary Messenger Vol. 16, Issue 9, (September 1850) pp. 533-540