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white people, and was by no means reserved in his expressions of hatred toward the whole race, who, he maintained, had violently wrested from them all their most valuable possessions. Nor did he hesitate to express his determination, with aid of his two powerful brothers, to regain all the lands which had originally belonged to them, after putting to death all those who now occupied them. In order to give him favorable impressions of the power of the Federal government, and re-lieve his mind of the idea of taking up arms against it, the other members of the delega-tion, all friendly Indians except himself and the Raven, had persuaded him to make the journey, hoping he would discover, as he passed along, so many evidences of the strength of the people he professed to despise, as to be induced to prefer peace to war, on any terms. No favor-able change, however, had been the result. He had refused every civility tendered him while inWashington, remaining shut up with his wife, in his apartments, while all the rest of his com-panions partook of every enjoyment offered them. He had refused to meet the Indian Committee in Baltimore, (but was afterwards induced to do so,) and remained in the same mood on his arri-val at Ellicott's Mills; and although George Ellicott assured him he could promise him a welcome and kind treatment at his house, he still declined. The Little Turtle endeavored to