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we suppose you feel yourselves happy and we also feel ourselves happy All the Indians and the white People know that the Great Spirit talks with our Prophet, it is now seven years since he first began to talk with him - &; he told the Indians they must leave of drink- ing Whisky, and they have declin'd the use of it -- Brothers - you must tell your friends when you go home to make their minds quite easy, for we are determined never to let the whisky rise again, and also to pursue habits of industry, and never them -- Your young men and us are like one - when we want any thing done we consult them and they assist us, and our Prophet tells us what to do and so we get instruction from both. Johnson Silverheels (a young Chief - rather disaffected) then made a speech to us nearly as follows --- Brothers You have told us you wished two of our Boys to go and live with your friends at Tunesassa to learn their Business and you