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to us. They have by other laws broken our agreement in whatever particular part they pleased: and these Men about the Great King have so teazed & persuaded him, that the Great King and the Men in England whom as I told you before, we never appointed to make laws for us, have made one law which says the Great King & those Men have a right to bind us by laws of their making, in all cases whatsoever: which is as much as to say, they have a right to treat us and everything belonging to us, just as they please: and this you know is as much as to say say they have a right to take all our money, all our lands, all our cattle and horses and such things; & not only all such things, but our Wives & Children in order to make servants of them, and besides all these things, to put us in strong houses & put us to death whenever they please. Friends and Brother Warriors, it is not now as plain as the sight at the end of your Rifles that these laws and proceedings are like so many hatchets chopping our agreement to peices? Are not these unjust things enough to make us put on our shot pouches and especially when we find that our Brothers over the Great Water will not only not hearken to the many good Talks which we have sent them about these matters: but have really sent over People to take the hatchet up against us? Oh my Brother Warriors, it is a lamentable thing, that our Brothers beyond the great water should use is in this cruel manner!___ If they use us, their own fleash and blood in this unjust way, what must you expect: you who are red People: you whom they never saw; you whom they know only the the hearing of the ear; you who have find lands?___ You see by their treatment of us, that agreements even under hand and seal go as nothing with them.___ Think of these things my Friends, and reflect upon them day and night.___ Having told you that the Men about the Great King persuaded him, that he and the men in England have a right to take our money out of our pockets without our consent: I must now tell you the contrivances they have fallen upon to take this money whether we will or not.___

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