- The Indians came over about
7 oClock in the morning, and having met the
Commissioners in Council - the old Chief
who spoke last night arose, and said, they
perfectly understood all that was said to them
yesterday, and had only to say, that in
regard to the several Treaties mentioned
yesterday, they did not acknowledge any of
them to be valid, and as the Commissioners
had said they could not remove the white
People over the River, so they, the Indians,
could not consent to give up any of their
Country, and concluded with saying,
they came as Men wishing for Peace,
but as that could not be obtained, they
should return to their Council, and speak
to their warriors:- And as for the Commissioners.
they the Indians had nothing more to say to
them, they might go home, and tell the
President Washington what the Indians had said.-

-After the Indians had retired a few minutes,
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their interpretter, and several of
their Chiefs, came back, and said, there had
been a mistake in the last part of the -