all the blessings of civilized life; of teaching you to eultivate the earth, and raise corn; to raise oxen, sheep, and otlier do mestic animals; to build eomfortable houses; and to educate your children so as ever to dwell upon the land.

Consult, therefore, apon the great objeet of peace; call in your parties, and enjoin a cessation of all further depredations; and as many of the principal chiefs as shall choose repair Philadelphia, the seat of the Great Government, and there make a peace founded on the prineiples of justice and lhuman ity. Remember that no additional lands will be required of you, or any other tribe, to those that have been ceded by former tc treaties,"

It was in this same year, also, that General Putoam said to them, in a speech at Post Vineennes: "The United States don't mean to wrong you out of your lands. They don't want to take away your lands by forec. They want to do yon justice." jonrneyed all the way from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, to try to help bring abont peace, said to them, "The great chief who has spoken to you is a good man ways speak the truth to you. I wish you to listen to his words, and do as he desires you."

In 1793 a great council was held, to which came the chiefs and hoadmen of the Delawares, and of twelve other tribes, And the venerable issionary, Heekewelder, who had Ie loves you, and will al- to mect cohmissioners of the United States, for one last ef- fort to settle the vexed boundary question. The records of this couneil are profoundly touching. The Indians reitera ted over and over the provisions of the old treaties which had established the Ohio River as one of their boundaries Their words were not the words of ignorant barbarians, clum sily and doggedly holding to a point; they were the words of clear-hcaded, statesman-like rulers, insisting on the rights of As the days went on, and it became more and their nations. more elear that the United States commissioners would not 2*