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treat them with kindness. If now you choose to 

 follow the fortunes of your yellow son, and live with 

 our people, I will cherish your old age with plenty 

 of venison, and you shall live easy. But if it is 

 your choice to return to your fields and live with 

 your white children, I will send a party of my 

 trusty young men to conduct you back in safety. I 

 respect you, my father. Tou have been friendly to 

 Indians, and they are your friends." The elder 

 O'Bail preferred his white children and green fields 

 to his yellow offspring and the wild woods, and chose 

 to return. Notwithstanding his bitter hostility while 

 the war continued, Cornplanter became the fast 

 friend of the United States, when once the hatchet 

 was buried. His sagacious intellect comprehended 

 at a glance the growing power of the States, and the 

 abandonment with which Great Britain had requited 

 the fidelity of the Senecas. He therefore threw all 

 his influence at the treaties of Fort Stanwix and 

 Fort Harmer in favor of peace ; and notwithstanding 

 the vast concessions which he saw his people were 

 necessitated to make, still, by his energy and pru- 

 dence in the negotiation, he retained for them an 

 ample and beautiful reservation. For the course 

 which he pursued on those occasions, the state of 

 Pennsylvania granted him the fine reservation upon 

 which he resided, on the Allegany river. The Sen- 

 ecas, however, were never well satisfied with his 

 course in relation to these treaties ; and Red Jacket, 

 more artful and eloquent than his elder rival, but 

 less frank and honest, seized upon this circumstance 



