Portrait Gallery


Mr. Bennett—

Seeing this morning in the Herald a notice of the decapitation of the Fejee King, would it not inadvisable to ask, what has become of the head of the renowned Seminole Chief Osceola, of Florida, which was brought to this city and sold for the purpose of exhibition in the Castle Garden, and which was, with much horror and contempt, rejected by the proprietor Mr. Marsh. Truly, the nineteenth century, will exhibit in future history, that there were cannibals indeed living in the great and moral Republic of America.

A Dragoon.


Letter from ‘A Dragoon’, The New York Herald, June 18, 1842. (PDF)

The Dragoon refers to an article which appeared in The Herald on June 17th, concerning the “the decapitation of the Fejee King”. See Ann Fabian's article “One Man's Skull” for an examination of that incident.

A letter from someone signing themselves “3d Artillery” answers the Dragoon's question “what has become of the head of the renowned Seminole Chief Osceola” in a letter to The Herald on June 19th.

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