By their Representatives assembled at Philadelphia 5th. Mo. 22 1795
To our Brothers the Shawanese, Delawares Wyandots, Miamis & other Nations of Indians
who prepose
peace between them & the United States.
Brothers
When a time was agreed on two years since,
for kindling
Council fire at Sandusky,
our hearts were made to rejoice, in hope the
good work of peace would go
forward; Six of our Brothers took a long journey
to see you at that
time, under a desire of affording their assistance
to make the Council fire
burn bright, but by the working of that bad Spirit
which the
happiness of all Men, that the intended Treaty was frustrated, and
oursaidfriends were under the painful necessity of returning
home with the
sorrowful tidings, that War, the sad destroyer of Mankind, was
likely to be
continued; since which the accounts received from your Country
of as much
Blood being shed on both sides have occasioned our
lamentation & mourning.
Brothers
We then sent you an Address, accompanied with a small present
as a Token of our Love and rememberance of you, which our said six
friends
entrusted wch way committed directed by our sd
6 Frnds
to the care of Col. McKee
but as we have had no
information of your having received it, we
herewith send you a Copy. A
small present, as a token of our love & and
remembrance of you, was also sent by our Brethren abovement.
which they had
not the satisfaction of delivering to you.
Brothers
It affords us much Comfort that a stop is so far put to the
further
effusion of Blood, and we earnestly desire that in the Council
fire
now about to be kindled, your trust & dependance may be on the
Great
over ruling Spirit of Peace & Love, whereby he may be pleased so
to influence & direct
your Councils as that the sound of War may no more
be heard in your
Land.
Brothers
We have often been grieved at beholding the sad effects
eperienced by produced in unguarded Men of whatever Nation from
which
the exessive use of strong drink produce and
particularly on the Red Indian people, even when
deliberating on
the solemn Business of Treaties which are intended to bind them and
their
posterity to future Generations, and are anxiously solicitous that in
the present Treaty it may be you may be weisly determined
to take up a pious resolution to abstain-