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we shall then be able to make a more comfortableliving with less labour than at present and we hopethis will be the opinion of us all BrothersI again repeat I am extremely glad to hearthe things you have said we will keep them in ourhearts for the good of our young men, our women &;our children. I have now delivered you th esenti-ments of our people that are present--Here he made a short pause then added— BrothersAssure your people who sent you here, tellyour old chiefs, that we are obliged to them, fortheir friendly offers to assist us in changing our presentmode of living—tell them it is a work that cannotbe done immediately, but that we are that waydisposed and we hope it will take place gradually. He then, set down for a short time—then proceeded BrothersMy heart is so overjoyed with what youhave said that I find I forgot to mention one of themost important things. At the time we first met atthis place, the Five Medals and myself formed someidea of your business, we expected, that you had cometo do for us things which you had proposed to us whenin Baltimore and consulted each other upon theAnswer necessary to return to you in every respect, andI now find that our conjecture was right BrothersThe sentiments which I have delivered toyou were his sentiments, you have now told us that