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Great Britain secured to herself a cessation of hostilities by a treaty of peace, regardless of her real children. Thus did she relinquish her protection to the Indians, in the day of adversity, in time of hot trial & peril, when the woods bore marks of blood shed in her cause by these children of the forest. The[states had surrendered their rights of regulating trade, making treaties or declaring war to the United States in the adoption of a Constitution. The Indians secured an honorable peace with the United States, in General Washington's administration by treaty, which guaranteed to them their Lands and adopted measures to promote their civilization. Great Britain whatever rights she may have had to the Indians had forfeited them forever, & as the colonies had destroyed their connection with the mother country, the Indians were thrown in their original condi