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When our chiefs returned from Fort Stanwix and 

 laid before our council what had been done there, 

 our nation was surprised to hear how great a country 

 you had compelled them to give up to you, without 

 payiDg to us any thing for it ; every one said that 

 your hearts were yet swelled with resentment against 

 us for what had happened during the war, but that 

 one day you would consider it with more kindness. 

 We asked each other, What have we done to de- 

 serve such severe chastisement? 



Father: when you kindled your thirteen fires sep- 

 arately, the wise men assembled at them told us you 

 were all brothers ; the children of one great father, 

 who regarded the red people as his children. They 

 called us brothers, and invited us to his protection. 

 They told us that he resided beyond the great water, 

 where the sun first rises ; and that he was a king 

 whose power no people could resist, and that his 

 goodness was as bright as the sun. What they said 

 went to our hearts ; we accepted the invitation and 

 promised to obey him. What the Seneca nation 

 promise they faithfully perform. When you refused 

 obedience to that king, he commanded us to assist 

 his beloved men in making you sober. In obeying 

 him we did no more than yourselves had led us to 

 promise. 



We were deceived ; but your people teaching us 

 to confide in that] king, had helped to deceive us ; 

 and we now appeal to your heart. Is all the blame 

 ours ? 



