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councils convened either by the United States or Texas, for the pur- 

 pose of negotiating treaties. 



4'y. 



PA-CON-DA-LIN-QUA-ING, or ROASTING EARS. 



(Painted 1843.) 



Second or Assistant Chief of the Texan Delawares, and Principal 

 Orator and Councillor. 



The following is the interpretation of a speech he made at a coun- 

 cil on the river Brasos, called by the government of Texas, and to 

 which council Gov. P. M. Butler was sent as commissioner on the 

 part of the United States, to assist the Texan commissioners in mak- 

 ing a treaty with the wild Indians : — 



" Friends : I am much pleased to meet you here at this hour 

 of the morning. 



" Dear Brothers : I am rejoiced to see the course you are pursuing 

 in this business. . I am likewise much pleased to hear that which 

 you have spoken. Understanding that you were about to enter into 

 this business, and having the welfare of my people at heart, I now 

 appear before you. I wish you, my friends, to endeavour to make 

 peace with our red brothers ; and I pledge myself to aid and assist 

 you all in my power. It will be very well that you implicitly obey 

 the orders of your chief. I do not wish you, my friends, to notice 

 things of little importance, but to turn your attention to things which 

 deserve it, and I will act in the same manner. The Great Spirit is 

 now looking down upon us, and will mark whether we are now tell- 

 ing the truth ; and if he find we do, he will cause the peace we are 

 about to make to be religiously kept. 



*' My Friends : I wish to go hand in hand with you. The treaty 

 must afifect alike both men and women ; and I also tell you, that you 

 must prevent your young men from committing depredations on my 

 red brothers, and I will do the same with mine. 



" Gov. Butler has been sent here by our great and mutual father, 

 the President of the United States, to witness the treaty we are about 

 to enter into. Let this not be children's play, but as men who are 

 determined on entering into the firm bonds of friendship and peace. 

 For the present I have but little to say, but what I have spoken ie 

 true, and it came from my heart. While I stand in the midsr. of 

 this assemblage, I am at a loss for words to express my ideas. Tou 

 will therefore excuse me for the present." 



