the mill, and bring it to back to your young men
in writing.
Brothers, this is all I got to say, we
will now
shake hands.
At the close of this speech we ex-
pressed a few more words; representing
among
other things the unreasonableness of their present
practice,
in suffering their women to work
all day in the fields and woods, with
their
hoes and axes, whilst the men and boys were
at the same time,
playing with bows and
arrows; and recommending them to begin
our
way, by early setting their boys to business,
taking them out to hoe
corn &c. By early ha
bituating them to work, their minds would
be
turned to it, and they would not think hard of
it. We concluded
with seriously pressing on their
minds the remembrance that it was
from
the Good Spirit they received every good thing:
and that he
could hear every word they said, and
see every thing they did: and that
they were, eq-
ually with the white people, objects of his
tender
care and regard: and that the great difference,
between them
and white people, in regard to
riches and poverty, of which they so
frequently
spoke, was the natural result of the diferent
plans
pursued in [endeavoring] to obtain the