the President much money. When your gen
eral council meets we shall expect an answer
to all we have said & particularly to the
address of the committee herewith handed &
deposited with Wm Wells

. Our young men on the
Wabash must have time to raise corn for them
selves & their horses. Whilst at work they have
had a house to raise & other work to do & have
not had time hitherto to raise more than was
sufficient for their own use & that the surplus
shall always be given to the Indians & not
sold. The object of our young men in coming to
your country was to learn you to work & not to
raise corn for themselves. The young men have
put away as much of the corn only as was suf
ficient for their own support, the balance will
be delivered to the Indians at any time they
want it. When your Chiefs were at Baltimore
they informed us that they walked in the thorny
path and wished to walk after us, We want them
to do as we do, to accustom their children to work
when young & this is the way to walk in the path
which we have walked in
after which the council adjourned