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Book, page 71 / 199 friendship to be extended toward them? To be invited to councils of peace, --to the intimacies, hospitalities, and kindly feeling manifested on this occasion? The orator was deeply impressed by it, and notes the contrast apparent in the conduct toward them, of Britain and America. "_You Americans were determined not to treat us in the same manner, as we had been treated by the king of England. You desired us at the re- establishment of peace, to sit down at our ancient fire-places, and again enjoy our lands_." He further very significantly refers to the occasion of the hostile feelings among the Indians at the West. It was because the peace between England and America "_had not been fully accomplished_." In other words, hostile feelings were still cherished, and their _outward manifestation_ could be seen, in the plundering and massacres, still carried on among our frontier settlements. The establishment of a _true peace_ between the two countries,--the existence and cultivation of genuine amicable relations between them, would, in his view, end all this trouble, and "_diffuse peace everywhere_." We have already had occasion to notice the unfriendly feeling, cherished by the British Indian Department in Canada, toward the United States; and evidence will be afforded further on, of their being deeply implicated in the hostilities endured, coming from the Indians on our western border. CHAPTER IX. Indian appropriation--Embassy sent West--Instructions--Medal presented to Red Jacket--Military suits--Close of conference--Washington's parting words--Visit of Thayendanegea--Council at Au Glaize--Result--Another commission--Indian diplomacy--Washington's letter to Mr. Jay--Commission goes West--Various interviews--Result of council--Re-organization under General Wayne--Ready for action--Advice of Little Turtle--Wayne's battle and victory--Treaty of peace. While these Indian chiefs were at Philadelphia, a bill was passed by Congress, and ratified by the president, appropriating fifteen hundred dollars annually, for the benefit of the Iroquois, in purchasing for them clothing, domestic animals, implements of husbandry, and for encouraging
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