SW_JS1798_045

I thought was owned, a degree of solemnity at- -tending, and after a short pause Cornplanter opened the Council, the following being the substance of his speech. Brothers the Quakers, Listen no now to what I am going to say to you. – You know brothers the Red people are poor, the great Spirit has made them of another language, so that it is very hard for us to understand one another plainly, as there is no person here that can interpret very well. Brothers, we take great pains to settle the proposals you made to us, but we differ in Opinions, and we must take great pains to have every thing compleat Brothers, we suppose the reason you came here was to help Poor Indians some way or other, and you wish the Chiefs to tell their Warriors not to go on so bad as the have done, and you wish us to take up work like the white People, now Brothers some of our sober men will take take up work, and do as you say, and if the do well, then will your young Men stay longer, but some others will not mind what you say