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all these thing show you that if we are hurt, you must be hurt also,___ if we lose, you must lose also___ if we fall, you must fall also: so I tell you in time, that you and ourselves ought to join together, in order to prevent any [strike 2 words] to save all of us from being hurt, or from losing, or from falling.___ Let us therefore exert ourselves, you at your end of the chain of Peace, and we at our end, in order that we may keep this chain bright and shining.___ So shall we act to each other like Brothers__ So shall we be able to support and assist each other against our common enemies__ So shall we be able to stand together in perfect safety against those evil Men, who in the end mean to ruin you, as well as ourselves who are their own fleash and blood. I am informed that you have been told, that your Brothers, the White People in Charles Town, used you ill, when they seized on amunition which your Traders intended to have sent to you. It is true my Friends, that we did seize this amunition; and I tell you, that your Brothers the White People seized it with great concern, because they knew their seizing it would in some degree distress you: but I tell you also, the Men about the Great King, are the only Persons to be blamed in this affair. For as we found, that these Men persuaded the Great King to send Soldiers against us, & to stop all kinds of amunition from coming to us as usual in order that we should not be able to defend ourselves, so these men about the Great King by this proceeding compelled us to seize such amunition for our own defence, as came among us by accident; and accordingly we greedily seized the amunition that was intended for your hunting, or order to have in our hands the means of defending our lives, our money and your deerskins, as I told you before, against our oppressors. And this behavior of ours was so natural and just, that we knew, that when we came to talk to you on the matter, you would think