Brothers: In laying these things before
you, we have no other motive than a desire of
heart for the improvement, the benefit and the
welfare of our Red Brethren- and therefore it
is that we speak with freedom, and we hope,
that what we have to say, will go in at one ear,
and not come out the other, but that it will be
remembered by our Red Brethren. For we
know, brothers, that we shall not be ashamed of
what we say, when, in time to come, you com-
pare the things we are saying to you with your
experience in practising them.

Brothers: We will here mention, that the
time was, when the forefathers of your brothers,
the white people, lived beyond the great water,
in the same manner that our Red Brethren now
live. The winters can yet be counted when
they went almost naked, when they procured their
living by fishing, and by the bow and arrow in
hunting- and when they lived in houses no bet-
ter than yours. They were encouraged by some
who came from the sun-rising, and lived amongst
them, to change their mode of living. They
did change- they cultivated the earth, and we
are sure the change was a happy one.

Brothers and Friends: We are not ashamed
to acknowledge that the time was when our fore-
fathers rejoiced at finding a wild plumb tree, or
at killing a little game, and that they wandered
up and down, living on the uncertain supplies
of fishing and hunting. But, brothers, for your