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glad of his company & would treat him well. -- Mr Ross said he saw no reason why he should fare better than his people. The interval between the breaking up & the re-assembling had been employed in building a platform for the Speech of Mr Schermerhorn. The preliminaries of prayer & signing being gone through, the Reverend Commissioner was preparing to hold forth. A general murmur arose. Some strikeout cried that they were willing to hear, but not till the votes were all taken -- "take the votes -- take the votes" -- was the universal shout. Mr Schermerhorn then remarked that the Principal Chief had given him the privilege to speak. He was there prepared and ready & he claimed a hearing as his right; and a right which he performed no one there would question, for there was no country in which respect was not shown to the authority of strikeout: their rulers. -- Mr Ross remarked the if Mr Schermerhorn had understood him as having intimated that strikeout: several words the Reverend Commissioner ought to be heard strikeout then, he had understood erroneously; Mr Ross strikeout had unclear his willingness that Mr Schermerhorn should be heard, but not that he should be heard at an inconvenient time. The business of the meeting was the first object to be got over; that ended Mr