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Chiefs, the Little Turtle and the Five Medals, and do hereby certify that they are taken down with accuracy. WILLIAM WELLS,Interpreter and Agent for Indian Affairs. Proceedings of the First Conference. A member of the Society of Friends opened the con-ference by addressing the chiefs as follows: BROTHERS AND FRIENDS, I am desirous that, in the early part of this op-portunity, you may be informed that the people calledQuakers, consider all mankind as their brethren;that they believe the Great Spirit and Father of man-kind created all men of one blood; and that it is thewill of Him, who also created the sun, the moon, andthe stars, and causes them to give us light—that GreatSpirit and common Father of all mankind—that weshould not do one another hurt, but that we shoulddo one another all the good we can; and it is onthis ground and this principle, that we believe it rightto take you by the hand. After sitting a short time in silence, another Friendaddressed them as follows: BROTHERS AND FRIENDS, We, the people called Quakers, believe that it isrequired of us, that we should all love one another,however separated we may be in our local settlementsin the world, or whatever difference there may be inour colour. And, as we are convinced it is not inour power to perform our religious duties to Himthat hath created us, without his assistance, so weconceive it to be our duty, when we are about toenter upon such weighty business as, I apprehend, this is,thus to sit down in stillness, in order to endeavourto feel after the operation of his spirit in our hearts;and we believe that this cannot be attained by our