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This is a plain mark that he and we are your true 

 friends; for, if we were not, then we would encourage 

 you to destroy one another: for friends save people from 

 rum and destruction, but enemies destroy them. And 

 this will serve as a mark to know all people by, who 

 are your enemies, either amongst you or elsewhere, if 

 they want, or study to throw strife and dissention 

 amongst you: these are a base and bad people, and 

 ought to be rooted out from amongst you; for love and 

 friendship make people multiply, but malice and strife 

 ruin and destroy. Such should, therefore, be shut out, 

 both from you and us, as disturbers of our peace and 

 friendship which have always continued. 



I am also to acquaint you, that you have in a grave 

 and solemn manner renewed your last treaty with me, on 

 which message I am now come, that our Governor will 

 write to all the Governors of the English that the Indians 

 within his Government are resolved to live peaceably 

 and quietly, and for tliat reason that they should give 

 notice to all their Indians thereof, and that all the friends 

 to the English should be accounted as one people, and 

 the Government desires you will let him know of 

 what nation these Indians were who gave you the 

 late disturbance, that they may especially be ordered to 

 do so no more. 



I am also to acquaint you that it is the Governor's 

 pleasure that if any of the Five Nations came amongst 

 you to trade or hunt, that you receive them as friends 

 and brothers ; but if they come amongst you, either to 

 persuade you to go to war or to go themselves, or in 

 their return from it, that then you have nothing to da 

 with them nor entertain them ; for he expects that none 

 of his friends will know any people but such as are 



