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Show 6 APPENDIX TO PAltT I. [ No. 3. ] C< >NFE REN CES llE.LD ' ,,. NT 11 AN I) S 0 1.1' IN D l A NS ' ON A YO y ACE Ul' TilE " ' ITU Dllo'l'ER..:. l 80G l\flS:ilSS ll' p t, 1 N .l•l l 1,. YF AHS l ti05 AND · J ' JH'cch de livl'rnl to tin 'SIO. II .l . 'at. tlzt• rntrnncc Oifl'l'1 ,~. rh.:cr St. J>rta'~, '2Jcl ~t'jllfl//bC/' 1 1805. I ·tm b·lppy to mcc t }· ou here at thi'l council firle , BnoTHEII S-' ' . , . ltotal·eyoubyt1c . . ·. . . I , s sent me to k111dlt.:, am . . I , whi ch \-lHII l,tthct l,t. . 1 1 l ·I ;.lC(Illll'cd lr·om tIC · · 1· \Vc havlll~ JUL ::t c Y ' . h:uHb as out· chdt 1 en. . . .. . Our vener:tl h.ts Sp.mi~h · t 'ITitory of LouJsJ,lJ1,\.- ' · · the ext 'llSl vc e I . r his )'OUIW \Y,\l'l'iors to Vl~lt thoq~rht . 1d out a num )el o . '-' t proper to !:>CI • '11 . I to hear what rcquc~ . 1 • 1. . t tell them ht'l Wl ' a.m . I. ·til Ills red chile 1 en- o . . I. 1 'lj)\)Y the chotec 1.1~ • 1 f the1r htlwr .nn 1' they may I lave to ma (Co ' {'. d brother'~, the Sioux, !c 11 · OIJ me· to come t 1I ·t s road '· as I ll1 my reacly to li">tt:n tO my worc\s. . f . ei'I1111CI1t tO l'Slal>li'>h mi· 1. · · the "'"h o ou t gov · 1 lc BllOTJII':Hs - l. ~~ • • ·I j)]Jccs as mig It l . , 1 , r , ) ·r l\lissi<;stppt, at sue 1 • • , . 1 It ta ry po~t n on t 1<, '-'\>l c . .. · 1 tile ccJU ttll), • 111< · 1 . , • therefor(', ex.tmlllCt 1 1 houcrht ('Xpt'cllcnt--l l.n e, . . C . . This plucc atH ~ I (' the l'l Vel' ~t. I OlX. . h:l\ e pitch<'cl on the mout 1 0 . • 1 , to srrant to the Um· the falls o£. S.t . A I lthcrdorc, wt~ l }OU h f' 1 a nt)Oll)- ' . (' .... Hl at this place, ron ted St-1\es . ' I . we atSt IOIX, <\1 .. a lllllC mt cs squ. ' ' l :\lississlppl, to lca~r· ue' bel'o w the conllurnce o r th.e St . P. et,e r1 s. armue s• f Oil each ~ideo Jcal">u c above S• t. A nt Iw ny, cx· tendlllP; thl ee c.l!_, I . I'C 1 . ·c arcustomcd to 1 a ., . rc '\ l>eople w 10 ,u ur the ri rc r ; and as we " ' l . n' Jnndcd to o ·dl Olll' acts wrote down, m. Oi.l I C.l. to have Lle n' t w• hich II c \1'1'I I . (' or ·l '11" -I bwc clt-:.twu up a orm '' ll) aroq ·ccmc ' Aftct· we c 11 t 1 c11 " • 1 .. lc rs 110 w present. both ni"n in the presence o[ l JC tJ .tc . . . "cl ·wd interpreted know th~ e terms we wt. ll II' ll l. t up, and h '' lV e H ' c ..t " to you. . led as a ben eft t to you. The BnoTHt·:n.s-Thosc post~ arc mtcnc . . • . . lll)rovcs by a I I chit fs uow present must s . e, , th~t thl',l l' .s nuau.o n 11 f the Unt. le d o ( . I . . . lt is thl! mtcnuun o .. cotHIUllllication v.nh the w Htcs. . . . ·I. ·h the Indians J1hl} ...:t tt•·sto establl·n h at t 11 0s·c• pus·ts ·, lactot·Ics, 111 " uc I ' 11 they do nolv • ·J , '-· l b ·ttrl' nte t 1.1 . . . 11 their thint~·s at a cl caper atH l; ' 1 ·y . 1 rc sill· proC\11 t ,\ o . . ·11 hell\ to} ou, as t lc • . tll II ) 'Olll' trade r~ can ;,dlot·d to se t !'· tiJCI'S ~ll'C Jll:tn: \JIl, .I 'ho cot B t }'Olll' •1 L~ e 1J H n ' · lC f<tr iu ~mall boi.\t'i. u APPENDIX TO PAH.T l. 7 nnrl strong-, and will come "ith a strong arm, in larg-e boat9. There will also be chiefs here, wlto can attend to the wnnts of' thci1· bl·others, wjt110ut their sending or g-oing all the way to St. Louis, and will sec the traders that go up your rivers, and know that they arc good men. JhcoTnEJts-Anothct· object yom father h::ts at hca1·t, is to enclcavonr to make peace between you and the Cltipeway's. You have now been ::t long- tin1e at war, and when will you stop? If ncithet· side will lay clown the hatchet, yom paths will always he red with blood; Inn if yon will const•ntto make peace, and sull'er you1· f~ttlte1· to bury the hatchet bet ween you, I will endea,·ou1· to bring- clown some or the CllipC'way chiefs with me to ~t. Lnuis, where the g-ood wo1·k can be completed, under the auspices or your mutual Ctt her. 1 am much pleased to sec that the young wnniors have halted here to hear my words this day; and as I know it is h:.ml fo1· a warrior to he struck and not strilw again, I will send (hy the first hipeway I meet) word to the ir chiefs :-That, if they have not yet felt yout· tomahawk, it is not because you have no legs or the hcans of men, but bC'causc you have listen d to tl1c voice of yotll' futhc1·. DROTJir.:us-Jf the chiefs do not li:;tcn to the voice of thci1· father, unci continue to com mit mlJI·ders on you and ou1· trader·s, they will call down the veng·cance of the Am ' J icans; fo1· they arc not like a blind man walking- into the fire. They were once at wa1· with us, nncl joined to all the nonher·n lnclialls, were d fcatcd at Hochc De Dreuf, nntl were oblig-ed to sue for pcacc-tlwt peace w grn11ted them. They know we al'c not children, but, like all wise people, arc slow to shed blood. BnoTHEns.-Your old men pl'obably know, that about 30 years ago, we were subject to, and go,·ct·ned by the king of the English; but l1e not trc:.Hinp· us like c!Jildrcn, we would no longer acknow. ledg-e him a<> fath •t·-ancl after ten ycar·s w~u·, in which he lost Joo,ooo men, he arknowleclg-ccl us a free and indcp ndcJll nation. They know th a1 not many years since, we r· ·ccivccl Detroit, Michilimackinrtc, and all the posts on the lakes f1·orn the En~lish, and now but tbc other day, Loui~iana from the ~pallish ; so that we put one foot on the sea at the cast and the other on the sea at the west ; and if once children, urc now mc.:n; yet, I think, the traders n ho come hom Canada a1·c had birds amongst the Chipcways, and iustig:Hc them to make war on their red brothers the Sioux, in or clc1· to prcYcnt our traders ft·om goiog- high ur the l\lississippi. This 1 ~hull (' JJrplire into, an<l if so, warn tho'>c persons of theu· ill coocluct. |