satisfactorily informed, that tho these communicating
had not reached the Chiefs, before the commencement
of their general council, they had themselves taken
the subject into consideration, and addressed a
petition to the President of the United States

desiring that the people of the State of Ohio
& Territories of the United States, might be
restricted from selling spiritous liquors to the
Indians. This would have operated as an
encouragement to us, to persevere in the busi
ness which we had undertaken, had we not
been informed by a communication from
Fort Wayne, being the proceedings of the general
council, that some of the Indians were disposed
to dispence with our further services- As this
is the situation of the business at present when
we head of the arrival of our red brethren in
Baltimore this day it was pleasing to us for we
wished an opportunity of this sort with them, that
we might sit down together and endeavour to fal together. And
I hope as we are now here met in council, we
may speak freely, and that if our red brethren
should have met with any thing, which has not
been to then satisfaction, in our intercourse with
them, they would freely open to us their minds

Brothers! As our concern has led us to sympathise
with our red brethren in different parts of this
Country, we have never found ourselves confined