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Indians this kind of liquor. When the Great Spirit 

 had made the earth and its animals, he went into the 

 great lakes, where he hreathed as easily as any where 

 else, and then made all the different kinds of fish. 

 The Great Spirit looked back on all that he had 

 made. The different kinds he made to be separate, 

 not to mix with and disturb each other. But the 

 white people have broken his command, by mixing 

 their color with the Indians. The Indians have done 

 better by not doing so. The Great Spirit wishes that 

 all wars and fightings would cease. He next told us 

 that there were three things for our people to attend 

 to : first, we ought to take care of our wives and 

 children ; secondly, the white people ought to attend 

 to their farms and cattle ; thirdly, the Great Spirit 

 has given the bears and deer to the Indians. He is 

 the cause of all things that exist, and it is verv 

 wicked to go against his will. The Great Spirit 

 wishes me to inform the people that thoy should quit 

 drinking intoxicating drink, as being the cause of 

 disease and death. He told us never to sell any 

 more of our lands, for he never sold lands to any 

 one. Some of us now keep the seventh day, but I 

 wish to quit it, for the Great Spirit made it for others 

 but not for the Indians, who ought every day to 

 attend to their business. He has ordered me to quit 

 intoxicating drink, and not to lust after any woman 

 but my own, and informs me that by so doing I 

 should live the longer. He has made known to 

 me that it is very wicked to tell lies. Let no one 

 suppose this I have said is not true." * * "I have 



