APPENDIX. 



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 No. I. 



SPEECH of the Oneyda tribe ^ one oj the fix nations of confederate^ Indians, fent la 

 the Neiu England provinces, June 19, 1775. Chap. 11. p. 41. 



*' Brothers ! We have heard of the unhappy differences, and great 

 contefts between you and old England. We wonder greatly, and are 

 iroubled in our minds. 



Brothers ! PofTefs your minds in peace refpeftingus Indians. We can- 

 not intermeddle in this dilpute between two bro:hcrs. The quarrel feerns 

 to be unnatural. You ere /*.'o t/r others of one blood. We are unwilling to 

 join on either fide in fuch a conteft, for we bear an equal affeclion to you 

 both, Old and New England. Should the great king of England apply to 

 us for aid, we fhall deny him. If the colonics apply, we will refufe. The 

 prefent fituation of you two brothers is new, and llrange to us. We Indians 

 cannot find, nor recoileft in the traditions of our anceftors, the like cafe, 

 or a fimilar inftance. 



Brother* ! For thefe rcafons pofTefs yoLir minds in peace, and take no um- 

 brage, that we Indians refufe joining in the contcA. We are for peace. 



Brothers ! Was it an alien, a foreign nation who bad ftruck you, w^e 

 fnould look into the matter. We hope, through the wife government and 

 good pltafurc of God, your diftreffcs may be loon removed, and the dark 

 clouds be difperfed. 



Brothers ! As we have declared for peace, we defuje you would not 

 apply to our Indian brethren in Nca England tor alTiilance. Let us In- 

 dians be all of One mind, and live with one aiioiher ; and you white peo- 

 ple, fettle your own difputcs betwixt yourfelves. 



Brothers ! We have now declared our minds, picaie io write to us that 

 we may know yours." 



Signed by thirteen of the Sachems and Warriors of the Oneyda nation, 

 IJajed froM Konon war chare, i. c. a head erefted on a pole.* 



No. II. 



SPEECH of Lieutenant General Burgo^ne to the ^Indians in Con^refs, at ike Camp 

 upon tkeJiiver lioquit, June 21, 1777, and tkeir an fiver. Chap. IV. p. 98. 



Chiefs and Warriors, 



THE great king our common fathfr, and the patron of all who feek 

 and da/ervc his proteftion, has ccnfidcied with iaiisfaclion the geneial 

 conduft of the Indian tribes from the beginning of tl-.c troub'ci in Amer- 

 ica. Too fagacious ar.d too faithful to be deluded or corrupted, they 

 have obfervfd the violated rights of the parental power they love, and b' rn- 

 ed to vindicate them. A few individuals alone, the relufeof a fmall uibc,at 



* Gordcn, A^ntrkan War, Vol. 1. p. ,'360, 36c. 



