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and that you might by them and punish them according to your law we delivered it to two men accordingly but instead of trying them according to your law, the lowest of your people took them from your magistrate and put them immediately death. it is just to punish the murderer with death, but the Senecas will not deliver up their people to men who disregard the treaties of their own nation. Father. insient [innocent] men of our nation are killed, one after another and of our best families but none of your people who have commited these murderers have been punished. we recorded that you had promised to punish those who killed our people, and we ask, was it intended that your people who kill the Senecas, and not only remain unpunished, but be protected from the next of kin: Father. These are to us very great things; we know that you are very strong, and we have heard that you are wise, and we shall wait to hear your answer, that we may know you are just.

Signed at Philadelphia. December, 1790

by the Corn Plant his x mark

Half Town his x mark

Big Tree his x mark

in the presence of Joseph Nicholson, interpreter, and sundry others

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The reply of the president of the United States, to the speech of the Corn Plant, Half Town and Big Tree, Chiefs and counsellers of the Seneca nation of Indians.

 I, the President of the United States, by my own mouth, and by a written speech, Signed by my own hand and sealed with the seal of the United States, speak to the Seneca nation, and desire their attention, that they would keep this speech in their remembrance of the friendship of the United States. I have received your speech with satisfaction as a proof of your confidence in the justice of the United States and have attentively examined the several objects which you have laid before me whether delivered by your chiefs at Tioga Point in the last month to Col. Pickering or laid before ? in the present month by Corn Plant and other Seneca chiefs now in Philadelphia. In the first plan I observe to you, and I request it may sink deep in to your minds that it is my desire and the desire of the U. States that the miseries of the late war should be forgotten, and banned forever as in future the U. States and the  six nations should be honeby? forth promoting each others prosperity of acts of mutual friendship & just[ice]. I am not informed that these nations have been led into some difficulties with respect to the sale of their land since the peace. But  I must inform you these soils arose before the General Ga...