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Brethren , Listen , This day the Lord has appointed us to g o on tHe good works , it . happened so last Fall , when Mr . Hughes was sent Bpon . this business , that it was then our desire that you should come a second time to us ; this is another messenger sent by the ministers along wi ^ h his father , whom we receive , and take it as a
great kindness for you to come and see our villages . Dear Brothers , here is a speech made up of all the chiefs , the head chiefs , and the chiefs of war , which we send to the aged ministers , our fathers , by you , if God should spare you to
return to them . "We are very thankful that God has spared your lives to come © uthere in peace to see us again . Brothers , pay attention to my speech ; you ltnow brothers what I always tell you , when you come upon this business ; you have come several times with a
design to teach ^ our children : there is one thing * I am afraid of in their attempt . Ever since the treaty , we the chiefs , that are here , and those of the big rock only have been confused about it . If we the chiefs should accept of your offer , the other chiefs towards the sun-setting and towards the north would take an
occasion against us . The reason we are so particular , we know that those towards the sun-setting a , re so foolish thusy would be incensed , having long borne enmity against us ; and you might soon hear of us all being cut off . Brothers , pay attention :
As I am the chief of the oldest nation , m I should accept of your offer , it p l ight be expected that all the other nations would submit to my opinion ; but brothers it is not so , they have malicious hearts . Have pity on us as we are lhe aged ministers who sent you here took ua for people of some sense : but they are so far mistaken ; for we have Rendered ourselves insensible by drink-^ £ spirituous liquors .
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Brothers—I am afraid we shall sooia prove ourselves insensible , and this is the reason why I said I was afraid , that if we accept of the ci&r our fathers , the aged ministers , have made us ^ by receiving a minister amongst us without a standing council , there is so much , drunkenness amongst us it might offend the minister . This is the reason I havd
assigned for my fears . Perhaps you think that we , the chiefs ^ have command over our young men : it is not so , but in defiance of our speech they may injure the minister . Though it wpuWL
not be agreeable to our will , yet wc could not help it , and therefore you ought not to blame us . If we should accept of a minister , and our young men do any mischief , the nations arotmd would upbraid us on that account ; s © the last error would be worse than the
first . We thank the aged ministers who sent you , and we think in council it would be best to drop your designs , without further trouble . It does not appear that the . Lord made us to receive
learning . Wc wish the aged ministers not to take ill what we say ; perhaps they think we have no way of believing in God ; but we have bonie way of believing in God—and we , pay some attention to his word .
brothers , pay attention to another thing :- ^~ The head chiefs and chiefs of war thfnk that the way God ~ has given us of believing is the best way for us ; he ha ^ s given us no books to read , but in place thereof has put all things necessary for us to know" in our heads . Let the aged ministers know , that as they are chn ^ tians , so we are also chri&tians ; and in all our councils we look to God and none else *
We would not wish the aged ministers to be offended with us , but that the same love still continue between them , and usas heretofore , and may nothing separate us from each other ' s affections , but still we hope there will . as much friendship remain between ^ us and them ,
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An Indian Speech . ~ 4 * J 7
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t A Speech delivered at the Upper Town ofSan dusky , by Chain , o * the 13 th of June 1802 , in consequence of a Mission to propagate the Gospel among the various Tribes of Indians in those Parts *
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« which Is cut close to the tread " is painted vermilliori ,,. as well as si different parts of . hjs face . He u a pension from the English " government , and lives in family
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"• with the famous Captain Bra «* , u Gtfand river . " I remain your \ JOSHUA BROOKES .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1809, page 497, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1740/page/23/
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