prevailed on him to spend another
season with you
Brothers he comes with no other view but to be of
benefit to our Red
Brothers. With no other view
but to encourage you to turn your
attention to the
cultivation of your lands in order that you
may
be enabled to procure a comfortable support for
yourselves
your Women and your Children and
which you find greatly to be
prefered to the
precarious subsistence which you have
heretofore
received from hunting and fishing.
Brothers our friend has come a long way
to be helpful to you. We hope
you will attend to his
advise And will be willing to be instructed
by him
If you will attend to his advises, and will turn
your attention to
raising stock, and to the cultivation
of your lands, you may in a
short time have plenty
for yourselves your Women and Children and
become
a happy people.
Brothers we hope your young men will be wil
ling to work themselves.
And will also be willing
to let your horses work, for we believe the
good
Spirit gave us horses to help cultivate our lands
Brothers we believe the good Spirit placed us here
on Earth to do
good, And to be of service to each other,
And it is on this ground
alone, we are made willing
to contribute a part of what we have
procured by in
dustry, in order to convince our Red Brothers
that
they, their Women, And Children would receive a
great
benefit, And would be much more happy if they
would fall into our
mode of living.
Brothers. Some of you have now made a beginning
and we hope see the
advantage resulting from cultiva
ting your lands, We wish you to
persevere.