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6/ (A.D. 1819) Whe? the following:

 "Brothers,  "Your father, the President of the United states, with when I have conversed on the present state of the Indians, who live under his jurisdiction, and with many pious  christians, also, far and near, are thinking of you for good, and are now engaged in devising together the best means to promote your welfare. We perceive that your numbers and your strength are diminishing; that from being a numerous & powerful people, ? over a wide & fertile country, in which was plenty of game for your support, you have become few & feeble; that you possess but small tracts of land, compared with what your fathers possessed, & that your game, on which