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If you are tell us so, that those of our nation who have become your children and have determined to die so, may know what to do. In this case, one chief has said, he would ask you to put him out of his pain. Another who would not think of dying by the hand of his father, or his brother, has said he will retire to the Chata[??]]ghque, eat of the fatal root and sleep with his fathers in peace. Before you determine a measure so unjust look up to God who made us as well as you; we hope he unknown not permit you to destroy the whole of our nation. Father. Hear our case: many nations inhabited this country but they had no wisdom, therefore they warred together; The six nations were powerful, and compelled them to peace. The land for a great ex__?? was given up tp them but the nations which were not destroyed, all continued on their lands and claimed the protection of the six nations as brothers of their fathers. They were men. and when at peace had a right to live upon the earth. The French came among us and built Niagara: they became our fathers, and took care of us. Sir William Johnson came, and took that fort from the French he became our father and promised to take care of us, and he did so, untill you were too strong for his king. To him we gave four miles round Niagara, as a place of trade. We have already said how we came to join against you, we said that we were wrong, we wished for peace, you demanded a great country to be given up to you, it was surrendered to you, as the price of peace, and we ought to have peace and possession of the little land which you then left us. Father, when the great country was given up to you, there were but few chiefs present-and they were compelled to give it up. And it is not the six nations only that reproach those chiefs which having given up that country: the Chipaways, and all the six nations who lived on the lands westward, called to us and ask us-Brothers of our Fathers, where is the place which you have reserved for us to lie down upon? Father, you have compelled to do that which makes us ashamed we have nothing to answer to the children of the brothers of our fathers. When last spring they called upon us to go to war to secure them a bed to lay down upon, the Senecas unknown them to be quiet until we had spoken to you, but on our way down, we heard that your army had gone towards the country which those nations inhabited and if they meet together the best blood on both sides will stain the ground