While both Chief Tecumseh and Chief Seattle use rhetorical strategies such as logical appeal, emotional appeal and irony they have different ways of depicting their purpose. Chief Tecumseh directly addresses his letter to General William Henry Harrison about the issue of white men taking the native americans land. As Tecumseh states in his letter, “Brother I wish you would take pity on the red people and do as I have requested”(American Rhetoric). Tecumseh logically and emotionally includes the natives to demonstrate what would happen to them if their land was taken away, unlike his white Pre-Civil war audience. While some in his audience would support his beliefs, others would continue to think native americans were savages. Yet by pleading
