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Much of the sentiment of this address appeased to be mi. p- 

 od for popular effect There was a marked difference between 

 the tone of his private conversation, and his public address, of 

 which more will appear in tin* sequel Such parts of it, as re- 

 quired it, wire replied to, and tiic simple truths, political and 

 moral, dictating the visit to them, brought clearly before their 

 minds, BO as to leave definite impressions. 



So far as related to the traders withdrawing the article of 

 whiskey from the trade, I felt it due to say, that no hard fee!. 

 should be entertained towards them. That it was excluded 

 by the Indian Office. They should, therefore, injustice, blame 

 me or blame the government, but not the traders. 1 was satis- 

 fied, I added, that the use of whiskey was very hurtful to them, 

 in every situation of life, and felt determined to employ ever) 

 means which the control of the agency of the northwest gave 

 me, to exclude the article wholly, and rigidly from the Chippe- 

 wa*, and to set the mark of disapprobation upon every trader 

 who should make the attempt to introduce it. 



It was near the hour of sunset when the council closed. Mi- 

 nor duties employed some time after. And while these W re 

 in the progress of execution, the Guellc Plat, who had been the 

 principal actor during the day, gave us occasion to observe, that 

 if he had studied effect in speaking, he was also a judge of pro 

 priety in dress. At a dinner to which I invited him, at my 

 tent, and also during the public council following it, he appeared 

 in his native costume. But after the close of the council and 

 before we embarked, he came down to the lake shore, to bid us 

 fare well, dressed in a blue military frock coat, with red collar 

 and cuffs, with white underclothes, a linen ruffled shirt, BO 

 and Stockings, and a neat citizen's hat. To have uttered his 



speeches in this ibn sign costume, might have been associated in 

 the minds of his people, with the idea of servility; but he v. 

 willing afterwards to V A us observe, by assuming it, that he 



knew we would consider it a mark of respect 



