Star.
London, England, 1804-11-24 00:00:00

141111 YORE. OCI'OBEIR 11.

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WMIIIIOIB or Tait 01/011 1111:11/11/.
My Mom; White Hain., Oilers, and
Warriorsof the Wage Nation,
I repeat to you affurances of the fatisfadlion k has
given me to receive you here. Betides the labour of
loch a journey, the confidence you have (hewn in the
honour and friendthip of my countrymen is pecu-
liarly gratifying; and I hope you have fern that
your confidence was juftly placed, that you have
found yourfelves, fince you eroded the Mifliffippi,
among brothers and friends, with whom you were
as fafe as at home.
My Children—l fincerely weep with you over the
graves of your chiefs and friends, who fell by the
hands of their enemies lately defending the Ofage
liver. Had they been prifoners, and living, we
would have recovered them ; but no Tome can
awake the dead. no power undo what is done ; on
this fide the where our government has
been long eftablifhed, and our authority organized,
our friends vifiting us are fafe. We hope it will not
be long before our voice will be heard, and our arms
relpetted, by thofe who meditate to injure our friends
on the other fide of that river ; in the mean time
Governor Harrifon will be diretted to take proper
meafures to inquire into the circumftances of the
tranfaftion, to report them to us for confideration, and
for the further meafures they may require.
My Children---By the late arrangements with
France and Spain, we now take their place as your
neighbours, friends, and fathers; and we hope you
will have no caufe to regret the change. It is fo
long fince our forefathers came from beyond the
great river, that we have loft the memory of it. and
(tens to have grown out of this laud, as you have
done ; never more will you have uccafion to change
your fathers. We are all now of one flintily, born in
the fame land, and bound to live as brothers, and the
ftrangers from beyond the great water arc gone from
among us; the Gasar SFItIT has given you erength.
and has given us ftreogth; not that we might hurt
one another, but to do each other all the good in our
power. Our dwellings indeed are very far apart ;but
not too far to carry on commerce and ufeful inter-
courfe. Yon have fors and peltries which we want,
and we have clothes and blankets and other ufeful
things that you want; let ui employ perceives then
in mutually accommodating each other. To begin
this on our part, it was neceffary to know what na-
tions inhabited the great country called Louifiana.
which embraces all the waters of the hiliffiffspo and
Miffoori. what number of peluies they could Amnia,
what qualities and kinds of merchandife they would
require. where would be the depofits matt convenient
for them, and to make an eta& map of all the wa-
ters. For this propofe I tent a beloved man, Captain
Lewis, one of my houfehold, to learn foniething oldie
people with whom we are now united, to let you know
we wore your friends, to invite you to come and fee
us, and to tell us how we can be ufeful to ynu. I
thank you for the readinefs with which you have RP
tened to his voice, end for the favour you thewed him
in his paffage up the Mifouri. I hope your coin.
trymen will favour and pmteet him as far as they ez-
, tend. On his return we !ball hear what he has ken
and learned, and proceed to ellablifh trading honfes
where our red brethren (hall think heft, and to ex.
change commodities with them on terms with nrhic.h
they will be fatisfied.
With the fame views I had prepared another party
to go up the Red River to its fource, thence to the
Course of the Arkanfa, and down to its mouth ; but
I will now give orders that they (hall only go a fmall
diftance op the Red River this feafon, and return to
tell us what they have fern, and that they (hall not
fa out for the bead of that river till the enfurng
fpring. when you will be at home. and will, I hope,
guide and guard them on their journey. I alio pro-
pofe the next year to fend another fmall party up the
River Kanfas to its fource, thence to the head of the
River Faith, and down to its mouth, and thence up
the River to the North fide of the Miffouri. For
guides along thofe rivers we mutt make arrangements
with the nations inhabiting them.
My Children—l was lorry to learn that a fchifm
had taken place in your nation, and that a part of
your people bad withdrawn from the great track, to
the Arkanfa river, we will fend an agent to them,
and will ufe our bell offices to prevail on them to
return, and to live in union with you. We with to
make them alfo our friends, and to make that friend.
flip. and the weight it may give us with them, ufe-'
hal to you and them.
We propofe, my Children, immediately to eflab-1
lint an agent to reticle with you. who will (peak to
you our words, and convey yours to us ; who will be
the guardian of our peace and friendthip, convey
truths from one to the other, diffipate all f;lfehoods
which might tend to alienate and divide us, and
maintain a good underßanding and friendllsipbetween
us—as the diftanre is too great for you to come often
and tell us your wants, you will tell them to him on
the fpot, and he will convey them to us in writing,
to that we 'hail be Cure that they come from yon—
through the intervention of fuch an agent. we than
hope that our friendthip will for ever be preferved,
no wrong will ever be done you by our nation. and
we trult that yours will do none to us ; and should
ungovernable individuals commit unauthorifed out-
rage on either fide, let them be duly punifhed ; or,
it they efcape, let us make to each other the bell fa-
fist:alio* the cafe admits, and not let our peace be
broken by bad men, for all people have fome bad
men among them, whom no laws can retrain. As
you have taken fo long a journey to fee your fathers,
we with you not to return till you (hall have vifited
(..ur country and towns towards the lea toast. This
will be new and fatisfatiory to you, and will give you
the fame knowledge of the country on this fide of
the Miffiffippi, which we are endeavouring to acquire
of that on the other fide, by fending trufty perfons to
explore them. We propofe to do in your country
only what we are defirous you Ibould do in ours ; we
will provide accommodations for your journey, for
your comfort while engaged in it, and for your teturn
in fatety to your own country. carrying with you
thole proofs of efteem with which we diltinguilh our
friends. and (hall particularly dillinguifh you. On
your return, tell your people that I take them all by
the hand, that I become their father hereafter, that
thcy (hail know our nation only AS friends and belle-
fattors ; that we have no views upon them but to
carry on a commerce ufeful to them and us; to keep

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