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every year deliver you a large quantity of such goods as are best suited to the wants of yourselves, your women & Children.- | every year deliver you a large quantity of such goods as are best suited to the wants of yourselves, your women & Children.- | ||
"Brothers - If all the lands before mentioned cannot be yielded up to the U. S., then we shall desire to treat & agree with you on a new boundary line; & for the quantity of land you relinquish to us within that new boundary line, we shall stipulate a generous compensation; not only for a largesum to be paid at once, but for a yearly rent for the benefit of yourselves & your Children forever. | "Brothers - If all the lands before mentioned cannot be yielded up to the U. S., then we shall desire to treat & agree with you on a new boundary line; & for the quantity of land you relinquish to us within that new boundary line, we shall stipulate a generous compensation; not only for a largesum to be paid at once, but for a yearly rent for the benefit of yourselves & your Children forever. | ||
"Brothers - Here you see one concession that we are | "Brothers - Here you see one concession that we are willing to make on the part of the U. S. now listen to another, of a claim which has probably more disturbed your minds than any other whatever. | ||
listen to another, of a claim which has probably more | "Brothers - The Commissioners of the U. S. have formerly set up a claim to your whole Country Southward of the Great Lakes, as the property of the U. S.: grounding this claim on the treaty of peace with your father the King of G. B., who declared as we have before mentioned, the middle of those Lakes & the waters which unite them to be the boundaries of the U. S.- | ||
"Brothers - The Commissioners of the U. S. have | |||
of the Great Lakes, as the property of the U. S.: grounding | |||
father the King of G. B., who declared as we have | |||
waters which unite them to be the boundaries of the | |||
"Brothers - We are determined that our whole conduct | "Brothers - We are determined that our whole conduct |
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6 every year deliver you a large quantity of such goods as are best suited to the wants of yourselves, your women & Children.- "Brothers - If all the lands before mentioned cannot be yielded up to the U. S., then we shall desire to treat & agree with you on a new boundary line; & for the quantity of land you relinquish to us within that new boundary line, we shall stipulate a generous compensation; not only for a largesum to be paid at once, but for a yearly rent for the benefit of yourselves & your Children forever. "Brothers - Here you see one concession that we are willing to make on the part of the U. S. now listen to another, of a claim which has probably more disturbed your minds than any other whatever. "Brothers - The Commissioners of the U. S. have formerly set up a claim to your whole Country Southward of the Great Lakes, as the property of the U. S.: grounding this claim on the treaty of peace with your father the King of G. B., who declared as we have before mentioned, the middle of those Lakes & the waters which unite them to be the boundaries of the U. S.- "Brothers - We are determined that our whole conduct