Within "Black Hawk's Surrender Speech, 1832" Hawk uses the rhetorical devices ethos, logos, and pathos to support his claim. Black Hawk claims that "White People" are corrosive and vile. Hawk uses ethos to support his claim by emphasizing the lack of ethics of the "White People". Hawk proclaims, "the white men... carry false looks... they shake them by the hand to gain their confidence, to make them drunk, to deceive them". Hawk depicts how the "White Men" deceit. Through this deceit he conveys that they are vile and influence negatively the Natives; therefore, ethics are used to morally incite people to agree with Hawk. Pathos conveys Hawk's claim. He uses emotion to convince people that they are terrible. Hawks states, "He laments their
