HoUinger Corp. pH 8.5 1039 244 py 1 Wayaniko: OK, The Fourth of July, 1776- A TRAGEDY IN FIVE ACT J, BY MARK '■' ALI.KN. Ktitered according to Art of. C. l^RAMATIS PE'iS=<)X.E Gkx. OEonoB Washixgtox. Commander of the Amer- ican army. John LANOsnowriE. wj7c?<»r the assumed name of Old Michael; disguineil as a hunter. Mautin Laxi'3!»owne. his brother. WxYKSiHo. the vjhtteindian; a runner in the employ of Washington; son of Martin Landsdowne and t'other nf Rose Reginalp Laxpsdowke, hiscousin, under the assumed iianif. of Walter. •loHN' Hancock, "^ Thomas Jefferson-, | John Adams, ! Leuders in the Ben. Franklin, .' Continental Congress. RoGEU Sherman, I'HtLip Livingstone, j GiiRALD MoYNToN. brother of Lady Marion. Brom. a Negro; a countryman; an Indian l*rophet: first ami secoivd citizens; first gentleman; gentlenan I riends of Reginald; Citizens of Philadelphia; Of' "ficers of ^Washington's Staff; Officers and Soldiers cf Continental ariiiy. Lady Marion. RosB Landsdov/ne. r'5\C>3^ k)M vJ^ Time— July, 1776, aTtt I. Scene 1 . Washington's camp near JSTew York. Mornivg. March heard without l. v. e. Soldiers march on from L. U. e. ; go through etioliitions, form in order and present arms as Gen. Washington and Staff enter L. ti. e. and come down, followed by Wayaniko. Washington, (c) No word from Congress yet ; this long delay is tedious, Hird to endure, yet duty counsels pitience; Subordination to the power above us Holds us here, when we would rather follow up The work commenceii to its cooipletion: — The steps we've tiken are 1 oth bold and noble; A glorious future h mgs on our success. While failure seals for us the doom of felons; The galling chains a tyrant's will his forged. We seek to sever, and free our country: — While Lexington is fresh in mind, while yet The thuuder-notes of Bunker hill re-echo; Our watchword should be onward, no pausing. No tained the proufs,thedreidfulprcof^ Of a loved brother's treachery .and criii.e. It is too frightful to believe, that he, A brother dear, so trusted anti i-o lo\ed. Could join with savage nun to blast my hopes And raise his hand with villiaiums intent 'Gainst me and mint — to murdtr in the dark. Husband and wife, and dt solate their home, Made sacred by the tender ties of love. Ytt here are proofs, a_\e sixteen damning prooft^ That in her grave were placed by guilty hands; One every year, as by their d it(s I see*. Which t-jnce that dreadful night have rolled away. My son still lives; so read I here. Alas! His nature changed to that of savage n-en ; My daughter too, my darling child is h re. An outcast midst th< se wild.'—thf y must l»e found To cheer my saddened heart, which else must sink In desolation to the waiting tomb Goivij h' WAYAMKO. 7 The Prophet and IVaynviko ad ranee. Prophet (to Wayaniko). 'Tis he! Thy t'lther, Wnynniko; see him liPi-e. The prophet oi thy people spe.-iks not lies, — 'lis he of whom thouot't' has dreamed, ot wIjoiu [ oft' have spoken. WaYamko {advancitigto 'Slaitin). Let tlie pile face listen. 1 am Wayaniko, the White Indian of the fore^*t, and tlie pn.phtt of my people bids me speik. When Wayaniko was a boy, and had seen but six summers, the red Tiidians, with the die.id war cry, tlu? sliarp hatchet, and keen knife, came in tiie stillness and darkness of the night into my white fither's wigwam, led by a rouyli white mm. and 1 siw my motlier f dl bleeding and dead beneath his knife, and my f ither fall senseless by her side, I stood over him in terror and dismiy, while my little sister, unco scious of her loss, creeping over her dead mother's breast, played with her blooily hair. I was dragged aw ly by the tierce white man, to the red In*lian8 of the wooA3