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From the general temperance of the Onondago Tribe, &; their increasing industry in having raised various kinds of grain &; we feel encouraged to hope that the labor and care of Friends extended to them has not been unavailing: they with the other Tribes have manifested gratitude for the attention &; assistance afforded them. Since the Committee performed their visit to the different Tribes, information has been received, that through the influence of the white people, nearly all the men, except the Brothertown Tribe, have been induced to go into the war, but that they returned in a few weeks to their dwellings, &; resumed their former pursuits, but we are apprehensive that the examples of intemperance &; vice exhibited to their view during their absence will have a tendency to retard their improvement in