membered the friendship which had subsisted
between their Society and the Indians, from
their first settlement in America; and recollect-
ing that the Western country was fast filling up
with white people, and that game would ne-
cessarily become scarce, they feared the Indians
would be brought into a state of suffering.
That, in consequence of the long wars that had
subsisted between them and some of the white
people, the Friends for a long time had not had
an opportunity of taking them by the hand.
That so soon as an opportunity had presented,
after a peace was effected, a concern had arisen
in their council, and several Friends were ap-
pointed to go out into the wilderness and have a
talk with them. He then called upon the
Friend who sat at his right hand, Evan Thomas

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who had been one of the mission to the Plains
of Sandusky, to give an account of the move-
ment in this concern. Evan Thomas then gave
a very concise relation of the journey, and the
conference with the Wyandot Chiefs, (which
has been before alluded to, and of which a
narrative was published some years since by
Philip E. Thomas,) and proceeded to inform the
deputation that the Friends had received no re-
sponse to the proposals then made to the In-
dians; but a belt of wampum and a speech had
been sent them from a council held at Detroit,
and an invitation to attend their General Coun-
cil. After he had concluded, another member