The Portland gazette., 1818-07-14

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ndtv possess, and have a right to use for hunting
and fishing.--We therefore ask you to tell us
| plainly and explicitly, whether you are wiling
TO sell us your right TO these lands and Islands
This is the first thing that we ask you to tell us
and we shall wait patiently for your answer, De-
fore we make you any particular proposals.
| Brothers,
| If you tell us that you are willing to sell your
right TO these lands and Islands, we now declare
to you, that we are authorised TO give and deliv-
er you therefor, such articles as will feed and
clothe you, and your women and children, while
yOu shall be hunting in the forest, and they shall
be suffering in the cold and storms OF winter.
| Brothers,
We pray YOU TO think well upon these things,
and to give us plain and ready answer-for we
assure you that we mean to deal plainly and hon
/ estly with you've should feel the vengeance
of the Great Spirit, who hates and Furnishes all
/ falsehood and deception, if we should attempt
/ TO deceive you-and we also assure you, that the
General Court, and your good father, our excel
lent Governor, would highly disapprove our con-
duct, and severely punish it, if we should at
tempt to do any thing that was not for your good,
and that of the Commonwealth.
BROTHERS,
If you should agree to sell US your right to these
! lands and Islands, and If we can agree on the
terms thereof, we further declare to you, that we
are authorized and commanded, by the General
Court, to examine into your situation and condie
ton as men.-Ihe General Court consider you
as their chldrea-for they know that you were
made, and are protected and governed by the
same kind parent and benefactor, as ourselves
We will therefore propose, and Are ready to agree
upon all proper means to improve your moral and
religious habits and feelings-To learn you the
use of tools for the improvement and tillage OF
the land-for it is the express command OF the
Great Spirit that we shall till the ground and sub
due ito afford you the means Of obtaining use
ful knowledge for yourselves, and your children
TO persuade you to live industrious and useful
lives--Fo abstain from the use of spirituous IL
quors, which is the poison that has destroyed so
many white men and Indians and caused them
to melt away, like snow before the fire.-But a.
bove all things, to persuade you to love and obey
God, and bis son Jesus Christ SO as that when
you come to die, and leave the land to your chill
dren and your mortal bodies be buried In its boz
som, you may be prepared to live forever, with
your good friends and fathers, that yave gone be-
fore you.
Bangor, Jsnc "a, a. d. 1918,
The Commissioners consist of the Hon. I'D
WARD II. ROBBINS, for many years Speaker Of
the House of Representatives, the Hon. DANIEL
DAVIS, Solicitor General, and the Hon. marx
LAEoDoY HILL, for many years member OF the
Senate.
We understand the Commissioners have efec-
ted defuitive treaty with the Indians and bought
all their claim but four townships and the Islands
up the Penobscot river, which the Indians reserve
for their own use. The Chiefs conducted with
great dscency and propriety during the whole
negotiation, the result is we believe, satisfactory
20 all.
We had Green Yease in our Market, the cath
Of June last, oily five days later than they was
exhibited in Boston market, and on Monday,
there was number Of bushels for sale here
much earlier than ever known before-they were
raised by Mr.. William Thompson, of this town
The people of Connecticut having discovered
that their supposed existence for above 100 years
as body polite was altogether an ilusien-that
they bad all this time been mere stalking shad
ow, without " form or pressure"-and awaking to
all the horrors of this state OF non-entity, have
wisely determined to have substance and q consor-
nation like other bodies, that like them they may
enjoy a real existence, and for this purpose have
chosen delegates in the several towns, TO meet in
convention at Hartford in August for tbs purpose
of frsming Constitution Of civil government.
Salem Gas.