The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-09-09
Aucvsr IL, 1906.
GovEaHoH,

GovEREoE,
We are happy to Zee you to day, and to Zee tina,
yeur family are all well thank the Crea, Spirit
for permitting rs 70 meet together, and we inform
you, that are we'll, and ALTO, all our women and
children
Governor-We have been diftrefsed that rone of
both the white people and Indians have, lince the
Iait fall, been eonlauty trriny up mitchell, and re-
porting that we we're preparing for war; We have
found the three principal perfons who have been the
mott active in eaufing all this trouble. 1t appears
tina, Dheont, Patrick Fiber, at Greeuyille, and
Wills, oil Fort Wayne. got offended at the Shawueys
at Crernvills-and they with the chief. at Taway
town have been endeavorn, excite a war, by in
venting and preadng malicious lies backward and FOR.
ward. They would come and tell the Indians tina,
the white people were preparing to come and dearoy
ali the Indians, and then the would go and tell the
white people that the Indians were attending in boz
dies and were preparing make war upon ,hem, &
thus they tried to keep both des in an uproar and
IL Teens that their malicious conduit and lies have ex-
tended all the way TO Detroit, and caufsd an alaru,
there.
Governor,
We are getting to be old men, and you alto are
getting too old to pay any regard to- or to be-
ieve iuch idle reports without better foundatien
Tor them. One of us was at the Federal City wears
ago, to fee the Preiident when he faw the Prefi-
dent, he found that all right, and that nothing
was wrong, and that the Preiden. wanted to fee all
fortaoly We were very happy that the PRECEDENT
gave as iuch good fatsfa9ion, and promifed the
chiefs, that the frendlhp which exitcd hctw-en the
people of the United States and the Indians lhould
never be broke again, there the chiefs preented the
governor Glver medal to look at, which the pref
dent gave them, fufpended by double filver chain,
on one tide the portrait of MIR. Jrfferfon with
his nan,e-and OH the other, two hand. ealped, two
pipes above and olive branch below with the mot
TO, /" P.afe AND friengf6ip."
GOVERNOR,
You know well do that the yivinp and
receiving this token of frsndiip was fincere on both
fides. Our old chiefs long ago made frendhip with
the United States but II has been tr1v attended
to-we have come now tn renew friendship 70
that 1t may never be interrupted again The Shaw
nefe have heretofore been rcatered about i'm parties
which we have found has been attended with bad con-
fcquences: going to coliea them all
together to town, tina, the chiefs may keep them
In good order and prevent drunkennef. from coming
among them, and try to rafe corn and fook TO live
upon. When we are tettled our new town at
Greenville, it bad reports come either from bad In
dians, or bad white people, (or there is fome bad
ones on both fides) will pay attention to them
any more Blu, we will mind own affairs aud live
quietly-We now call you brother, and we allure
you We now talk to yeu in good truth and that we
will never as long as the Shawneys live, be other than
brothers and friends.
BRoTHER,
We have now become the beh Of friends and
we will never let frendhp be broken again for
ever---but we wapply all our time in providing
for our women and children, that they may live COM
fortably. We will now 30 to Detroit to fee govern
or Hull to talk with him, and to contradict the bad
reports that went there, and riendip with
him ALTO.
We deire that you will paw attention 70 any bad
reports any bad people hould raife any more about
us; and we deiire that you will let all your white
people on the frontiers know, that have been 20
renew frendhip with you, and that you will
give ;,,,;;I., oyT people .i.. ,,
when we go home, that we have been to fee YOU and
that peace and riendhP renewed, to be brok. a.
gain 10 more forever.