Were there many speeehes made by troops in thosc revolutionary days with which these words do not compare favorably?

This treaty, by which our faithful ally, Wicocalind, was re instated in his tribal rank, was made at Fort M'Intosh in commanders to their The Wyandottes, Chippewas, and Ottawas, as well as the Delawares, joined in it. They acknowledged theinselves and all their tribcs to be "under the protection of the Uuited States, and of no other sovereigu whatsoever." The United States Government rescrved the post of Detroit" and an 1785. outlying district around it; also, the post at Michilimackinac, with a surrouuding distriet of twelve iniles square, and some other reserves for trading-posts.

The Indiaus' lauds were comprised within lines partly indi- cated by the Cuyahoga, Big Miami, aud Ohio rivers and their branches; it fronted on Lake Erie; and if "any citizen of the United States," or "any other person not an Iudian," attempt ed "to settle on any of the lands allotted to the Delaware and Wyandotte nations in this treaty"-the fifth Article of the treaty said-"the Indians may punish him as they please." Michigau, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, all are np of the lands which were by this first treaty given to the Indiaus largely made

Five years later, by another treaty at Fort Harmar, the pro- visions of this treaty were reiterated, the boundarics somewhat changed and more accurately definod. The privilege of hunt- on all the lands reserved to the United States was prom ing ised to the Indians "without hinderance or molestation, so long as they behaved themselves peaceably;" and "that nothing way interrupt the peace and harmony now established between the United States and the aforesaid nations," it was promised in one of tlhe artieles that white men committing offences or murders on Indians shonld be punished in the same way as Indians committing such offences.