Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1806-09-06
1ssusY llsx, 1906

AsGus9 Urn 1906:
GOVERNOR,
We are happy to see you to day, and
to see that your family are all we'll; we
thank the Great Spirit for permitting us
TO meet together, and we inform you,
that we are well, and also all our women
and children.
Governor We have been distressed that
some of both the white people and Indi-
dams have, since the last fall, been con.
ssatly stirring up mischief aud reporting
that we were preparing Tor war. We
have found the three principal persons
who have been the most active in caus-
ing all this trouble. Itappcrs that Dishe.
out, Patrick Fisher, at Greenville, and
Wills, of Fort Wayne, got offended at
the Shawneys at Creenville-and they
with the chiefs at Taway town have been
endeavoring to excite war, by invcn,ing
and spreading malicious lies backward
and forward. They would come and tell
the Indians that the white people were
preparing to Come and destroy all the In
dams, and then they would so and Tell the
waite people that the Indians we're as
semhling in bodies and were preparing
TO make war upon them, and thus they
tried to keep bath sides in an uproar, and
it seems that iheir malicious conduct
and lies have extended all the way 10 De-
tro;t, and caused an alarm there.
Gove.nor,
We are getting to be old men, and
you also are gstling too old man to nay
any regard TO, or to believe such idle re-
por,s without better foundation for them.
One of MS was at the Fed raj City years
ago, to see the. Presiden, when ne saw
the President. he found that all was right,
and that nothing was wrong, and that The
president wanted to see all the Indians
with their women and children fixed com.
fortaby. we were very happy when The
president gave such good satifaction, and
promised the chiefs, laat the friendship
which existed between the people OF the
| United States and the Indians should ne.
yer be broke again, (here the chiefs pre-
sen;ed the governor silver medal to look
at, which the president gave them, sus-
| pended by double silver chain, ON one
side was the portrait of Mr.. Jefferson,
with his name--and on the other two
hands claspcd, two pipes above and an
olive below with the motto, "neace and
IJrrendaih ~
! GOVERNOR,
You know as well IS we do, that the
giving and receiving this token of friend.
ship was sincere OH both sides. Our old
Chiefs lopg ego understanding with the T..
, but 1t has not been strictly attended 10
I'VE have come now IN renew our friend.
ship SO that it may never be INTERRUPTED
again. The Shawnese have heretofore
been scattered about in parties, which
we have found has been attended with
bad consequences: We are now going to
collect them all together to one town,
that the chiefs may keep them in good
order, and prevent drunkenness from
coming among them, and try to raise corn
and stock to 1--we upon. When we are
settled at our new town at Greenville, il
bad reports come either from bad Indi-
\ dams, or bad white people, (for there is
some bad ones on both sidesj re will nav
no attention to them any more but we
viii mind our own affairs and live. oui.
| etly---We now call you brother, and
we assure you we now talk 10 you
IN good truth and that we will never as
Tong rs the Shawneys live, be other than
BROKERS and friends.
BROTHER,
We have now become the best of
trends, and we viii never lie, our friensbip
be broken again forcyer----but we viii
apply all our time in providing for our
women aud childvcn, that they may live
comfortably. We will now go 20 Detroit
TO see governor Huil TO talk with him, and
10 contradict he bad reports that went
there, and renew our Friendship with him
| also,
We desire that you will pay no auen.
ton to any bad reports, If any bad peo-
pie should raise any more about US !;
and we desire that you win let all your
white people on the frontiers know, that
we have been to renew our Friendship
with you, and that you viii give It's few
lines 10 sbew both or people * yours, when
we go home, that we have been to see
you, and that peace and fliendsip are re.
newed, to be broke again no more FORE
yer.