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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Baltimore Yearly Meeting Indian Committee Minutes

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in our prospects, and if at any time, any become
dissatisfied with us, we desire that they would
freely commuicate to us their dissatisfaction, yet
tho' we are sensible our motives are pure, having
no prospect of reaping any advantages to ourselves,
in the prosecution of this concern, but that
peace of mind, which will ever be the attendant
upon every act of benevolence, our red brothers
must no doubt see, that after having had our
minds exercised on their accounts, and seen
engaged in endeavours to promote their benefit
so long in their past of the continent, it would
be a disagreeable circumstance to us, to seperate
ourselves from them; but if they are dissatisfied,
and wish us to withdraw, from them, we shall
turn our attention to some other quarter of
the country, in which our red brothers reside. As
the concern has arisen from pure love in our
hearts, flowing towards the red people, it does not
appear, that we can give over our exertions, wen
if discouragements are thrown in our way, but if
we are rejected in one place we shall turn to
those who are willing to receive us, we now therefore
wish our brothers to use that freedom, which one
brother ought to use to another, in communiting
without reserve their sentiments to us

To which the Turtle

replyed

My brothers the Quakers!

In rising to salute you, I
feel happy, & thank the great spirit who has put it
into our power, to take each other by the hand
once more. All that you have said to us is pleasing