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5 Watamies & Sacs were also parties to the treaty of Fort Harmar.- "Brothers - All these treaties we have here with us. We have also the Speeches of many Chiefs who attended them & who voluntarily declared their Satisfaction with the terms of those treaties. "Brothers - After making all these treaties, & after hearing the Chiefs freely express their satisfaction with them, the U. S. expected to enjoy peace, & quietly to hold the lands ceded by them. Accordingly large tracts have been sold & settled, as before mentioned. And now Brothers, we answer explicitly, that for the reasons here stated to you, it is impossible to make the river Ohio the boundary between your people & the people of the U. S.- "Brothers - You are men of understanding, & if you consider the customs of white people, the great expences which attend their settling in a new Country, the nature of their improvements in building houses & barns, & clearing & fencing their lands, how valuable the lands are thus rendered, & then how dear they are to them; you will see that is is now impracticable to remove our people from the northern side of the Ohio. Your Brothers, the English, know the nature of white people, & they know, that under the circumstances which we have mentioned, the U. S. cannot make the Ohio the boundary between you & us. "Brothers - You seem to consider all the lands in dispute on your side of the Ohio, as claimed by the U. S., but suffer us to remind you, that a large tract was sold by the Wyandot & Delaware nations to the State of Pennsylvania. This tract is East of a line drawn from the mouth of Beaver Creek at the Ohio, due north to Lake Erie. This line is the western boundary of Pennsylvania, as claimed under the charger given by the King of England to your antient friend William Penn.- Of this sale made by the Wyandot & Delaware Nations to the State of Pennsylvania we have never heard any complaint. "Brothers - We are on this occasion obliged to make a long speech. We again desire you to hear us patiently, the business is of the highest importance; & a great many words are necessary fully to explain it; for we desire you may perfectly understand us: And there is no danger of your forgetting what we say, because we will give you our speech in writing. "Brothers - We have explicitly declared to you, that we cannot now make the Ohio river the boundary between us. This agrees with our speech to your Deputies at Niagara, "that "in order to establish a just & permanent peace, some concessions would be necessary on your "part as well as on ours."- "Brothers - The concessions which we think necessary on your part are, that you yield up & finally relinquish to the U. S. some of the Lands on your side of the river Ohio. The U. S. wish to have confirmed all the lands ceded to them by the Treaty of Fort Harmar; & also a small tract of land at the Rapids of the Ohio, claimed by Gen. Clarke for the use of himself & his warriors: And in consideration there of, the U. S. would give such a large sum in money or goods as was never given at one time, for any quantity of Indian lands, since the white people first set their feet on this Island. And because those lands did every year furnish you with Skins & furs, with which you bought clothing & other necessaries, the U. S. will now furnish the like constant supplies; & therefore besides the great sum to be delivered at once, they will

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