we suppose you feel
yourselves
happy and we also feel ourselves happy
All the
Indians and the white People know
that the Great Spirit talks with
our
Prophet, it is now seven years since he
first began to
talk with him - & he told
the Indians they must leave of
drink-
ing Whisky, and they have declin'd
the use of it --
Brothers -
you must tell your friends
when you go home to
make their
minds quite easy, for we are determined
never to
let the whisky rise again, and
also to pursue habits of industry,
and never
them -- Your young men and us are
like one - when we
want any thing
done we consult them and they assist
us, and
our Prophet tells us what to
do and so we get instruction from
both.
rather disaffected) then made a speech
to us nearly as follows ---
Brothers
You have told us you wished
two of our Boys to go and
live with
your friends at Tunesassa