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Grenville, than we lost by the sixyears war before; it is all owning to the in-troduction of this liquor amongst us.—Brothers, how to remove this evil from ourcountry we do not know; if we had knownthat it would have been a proper subject tohave mentioned to you in our council yes-terday, we should surely have done it.This subject, brothers, composes a part ofwhat we intend to make known to the greatcouncil of our white brethren. On ourarrival there, we shall endeavor to explainto our great father, the president, a greatmany evils that have arisen in our countryfrom the introduction of this liquor by thewhite traders. Brothers and Friends,In addition to what I have before ob-served of this great evil in the country ofyour red brethren, I will say further, thatit has made us poor. It is this liquor thatcauses our young men to go withoutclothes, our women and children to gowithout any thing to eat; and sorry am Ito mention now to you, brothers, that theevil is increasing every day, as the whitesettlers come nearer to us, and bring thosekettles they boil that stuff in they call whis-key, of which our young men are so ex-tremely fond. Brothers, when our youngmen have been out hunting, and are return-ing home loaded with skins and furs, ontheir way if it happens that they comealong where some of this whiskey is depo-sited, the white man who sells it tells themto take a little drink; some of them willsay, No, I do not want it—they go on tillthey come to another house, where theyfind more of the same kind of drink; it isthere again offered, they refuse, and againthe third time, but finally the fourth orfifth time one accepts of it and takes adrink, and getting one he wants another,and then a third and a fourth till his senseshave left him. After his reason comesback again to him, he asks for his peltry:The answer is, you have drank them.Where is my gun? It is gone. Where is myshirt? You have sold it for whiskey!! Now,brothers, figure to yourselves what a con-dition this man must be in; he has a fami-ly at home, a wife and children that standin need of the profits of his hunting: whatmust their wants be when he himself is evenwithout a shirt? This, Brothers, I can assure you, is afact that often happens among us; as Ihave before observed, we have no meansto prevent it. If you, Brothers, have itin your power to render us any assistance,we hope the Great Spirit will aid you—we shall lay these evils before our greatand good father; we hope he will removethem from amongst us; we shall assurehim that if he does not, there will not bemany of his red children living long in ourcountry. The Great Spirit, Brothers, hasmade you see as we see; we hope, Bro-thers, and expect, that if you have any in-fluence with the great council of the Unit-ed States, that you will make use of it inbehalf of your red brethren. My Brothers and Friends,The talks that you delivered to us whenwe were in council yesterday, were cerain-ly highly pleasing to myself as well as tomy brother chiefs; we rejoiced to hearyou speak such words to us; but we allplainly saw that there was a great difficultyin the way that ought to be removed be-fore your good intentions towards us couldbe carried into effect: we agree with you,Brothers, that this great evil amongst us,spirituous liquors, must first be removed;after this is done, we hope you will findan easy access to us, much earlier than youcan have at present. My Brothers and Friends,I hope that if we all try to prevent theintroduction of spiritous liquors in thecountry of your red brethren, that theGreat Spirit will aid us in it, and that weshall meet with no difficulty in doing it;after this is done, we hope that the greatservices you have designed to do for us, thegreat things mentioned by you in ourcouncil yesterday, may take place andhave that success you so much desire. My Brothers and Friends,You have asked us our opinion on thesubject of the introduction of spiritous li-quors into our country. I have now givenit to you. If I have given it to you in sucha manner that you do not understand me,I would wish to be make known toevery body. We have our enemies in ourown country as all other persons have intheirs; it is no unusual thing, Brothers,to hear some people amongst us, (youwill perceive, Brothers, that these arepeople that are interested in keeping usignorant,) when they hear talks that havebeen delivered by our chiefs to people thatare capable of rendering us services, theysay to our people, do you not hear?your chiefs have sold you—your chiefshave sold your lands. They put badstories in the mouths of our young men:for this reason, Brothers, all that I havesaid I wish to be made public; I wishevery body to know it. I only mentionthis to you, Brothers; if it is improper,I have no objection to your keeping itamongst yourselves, but if it could bemade public I would wish it—I have nothingfurther to say. Sits down. Five Medals, then rises of his feet. My Brothers and Friends,I have nothing to say on the subject,we have now been talking over. My friendthe Little Turtle has given you a full an-swer to those things you have mentioned tous; we are but one people and have butone voice. Brothers and Friends,We have never had it in our power tohold such talks with you at this place be-fore. We have frequently had talks ofthis kind with our brothers, the Quakersof Philadelphia; they always appearedvery glad to see us, and we find you thesame. We hope brothers, that yourfriendship and ours will never be broken.Sits down. The friend who delivered the secondcommunication, then again addressed themas follows: Friends and Brothers,What you have communicated to us atthis time, has been clearly understood—and we are glad to find that you see thingsin the same light that we see them. Theseveral matters you have mentioned, andthe difficulties you have stated, claim oursympathy and solid consideration, and weshall, I trust, take the subject up, and ifway should open for us to move forward,in aiding you in your application to thegeneral government, we shall be willing,either on this occasion, or any other, torender every service in our power. To the Congress of the United States. The memoral of the committee appointedfor Indian affairs by the yearly meetingof Friends, held in Baltimore,Respectfully represents— THAT a concern to introduce amongsome of the Indian tribes north-west of theriver Ohio, the most simple and useful artsof civil life, being several years since laidbefore our yearly meeting, a committeewas appointed by that body to visit them,to examine their situation, and endeavorto ascertain in what manner so desirable apurpose could be both effected—A part ofthat committee after having obtained theapprobation of the president of the UnitedStates, proceeded to perform the serviceassigned them, and the result of theirenquiries and observations, as reported tothe yearly meeting, was, that the quantityof spirituous liquors with which thosepeople are supplied by traders and frontiersettlers, must counteract the effect of everymeasure, however wise of salutary, whichcan be devised to improve their situation. The truth of this being abundantlyconfirmed by a speech recently made beforeus by the Miami chief, the Little Turtle,which we herewith offer to your considera-tion, and believe the evil to be of suchmagnitude, that unless it can be altogetherremoved, or greatly restrained, no ration-al hope of success in the proposed under-taking can be entertained, we are inducedto solicit the attention of the national le-gislature to this interesting and importantsubject, a subject which we believe involvesnot only their future welfare, but eventheir very existence as a people.Signed on behalf of the committee by Evan Thomas, Elias Ellicott, John Brown, David Brown, John McKim, Joel Wright, George Ellicott, Baltimore, 1st month 1st, 1802