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satisfy us for that which we speak to them, wherefore we speak to you. The chain of friendship will now, we hope, be made strong, as you desire it to be - we will hold it fast - our end of it shall never rust in our hands. Father, we told you what advice we gave to the people you are now at war with, and we now tell you that they have promised to come again next spring to our towns. We shall not wait for their coming, but set out very early in the season, and how them what you have done for us, which must convince them that you will do for them every thing that they ought to ask. We think they will hear us and forward our advice. Father, you gave us leave to speak our minds concerning the till-ing of the ground - we ask you to teach us to plough and to grind corn, and supply us with broad axes, saws, augers, and other tools to assist us in building a saw mill, that we may make our houses more comfortable and more durable. That you will send smiths among us, and above all that you will teach our children to read and write, and our women to spin and weave. The manner of doing these things for us we leave to you who understand them, but we assure you that we will follow your advice as far as we are able. To this second speech the President made them a written reply, stat-ing, among other things, that he could not disannul treaties made with the United States before his administration, and that, therefore, the boundaries marked by the treaty of Fort Stanwix must remain esta-blished. He assured them an agent should be appointed who would not be suffered to defraud them, or assist in defrauding them of their land; and concluded, by saying - You may, when you return from this city to your own country, mention to your nation my desire for their prosperity by teaching them the use of domestic animals, and the manner that the white people plough and raise so much corn, and if, upon consideration, it would be agreeable to the nation at large to learn these valuable arts, I will find such means of teaching them, at such a place within their country as shall be agreed upon. To the great counsellor of the Thirteen Fires. The speech of Corn-planter, Half-town, and Big Tree. Father, no Seneca ever goes from the fire of his friend until he has said to him I am going. We therefore tell you that we are now set-ting out for our own country. Father, we thank you from our hearts that we now know there is a country we may call our own, and on which we may lay down in peace. We see that there will be peace between your children and our children, and our hearts are very glad. We will persuade the Wyandots and other western nations to open their eyes, and look to-