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      men , a civilized ^ lohawk . Chief , whocanie to England , four years ago , for the purpose of improving , himself in the arts of civil life , and particularly , agriculture . He was

      well known , personall y ^ by the writer of this communication , his English narpe being Captain ] Norton . But a more perfect and particular account will soon be published by the very respectable friend , who lent me this curious

      paper . It discovers so ijiuch good sense and true piety , that we c ^ in hardly attribute it all to . natural religion , for it approaches very

      near to the doctrines of the revelatlon . by Jesus Christ . . 4 ci The first Indian that arose ,

      "began thus- —It has pleased the Author of our being to preserve us from falling victims to the rriany accidents , "which occur-through life , & c . and ipv his protection , and continual favours , from the bottom , of our hearts , we send forth the inost

      grateful acknowledgments . —Brothers , , that you now see in your presence , are sent to you by Skaji - yadario , the prophet . The words that you are to hear you are to consider the same as if they came

      from his own mouth , for you shall hear from us only that which he has authorised . " A man then arose , and tol 4 us , that some time previous to Skanyadario ' s being visited , that he felt an unusual gladness and

      gaiety , and cheerfulness filled his mind ; by this it is ; that he knows tike time is nigh . Three * persons bf a heavenly appearance came to him , and immediately he fell intd

      'a trance . These persons are mvi-| jble to every one els ^ . Th ^ y then tell hifn he miist exhort the people to a strict reliance on God

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      anp obedience to his cornmands . T hat the alienation of their lands is a grieat crime , because it belories ' tp the Lord of the ' cre ' atibd , ' and * he * has designed it also for our posteiri- '

      tjy . Drunkenness is a great cri rrie ^ because it is degrading reason to the level of the brute , besides that we have repeated instances that it is the parent of still more hideous crimes , murder , adultery , fornication , lying , stealing and cove *

      tousiiess ; all these are higHly displeasing to the Great Spirit . That it was a good thing to imitate the white men , in the improved agri - culture , and ' the teeping of cattle , and in % & e useful arts ; but that it was not good to imitate them in strife about little things ' ; nor iri

      having eaols and chains , wherevrith to manacle and confine their fellow-creatures , nor in hanging them on trees . u Then arose tlie Orator , ( a young , nian between tvventy and thirty years oi age ) to exhort and expatiate on the whole .

      His sedate air and countenance , which at once expressed both a pious and innocent mind , prepossessedj I believe , most of those present in fitvour of what he was going to say ; — all listened with the inost fixed attention , when he

      thus began : < ct Brothers , you have just heard of the visitation and the injunctions received by Ska . nyadario , and coming from the Author

      of our existence . Should any among you feel self-sufficient ^ and only attericl to thesS commands s ' o far as they may find convenient ^ and may not deem it consistent with their independent spirit implicitly to bEtey them , I sfiall inform them , that they are iio $ sq

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      716 Original Account of a Meeting or talK ' of In dians±

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1808, page 710, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1706/page/18/