Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1820-10-17

ness. All that / come for have got. /
will be glad for these good people to come
TO my village.
My Brother, My great father, the pres
ident Of the United Stares, and my father,
the chief of war, aud you the superioten-
dent OF Indian trade, are all MY friends
| will hear now yonr brothers. talk.
he Covenant was then delivered, and
is as follows
TO the principal Chief, Counsellor and
Warrior Of the Great Osages.
BTotheTs,-The Board OF Managers Of
the United Foreign Missionary Society
in the city Of New York have heard of
the Great Osages oftl.e Missouri They
have heard also that iiicy. desire 10 nave
the means of Improvement in all good
things sent to them; and being the friends
and brothers of the Great Osages, the
United Foreign Missionary Society of
New York have fastened TO serve their
friends and brothers, the Great Osages of
the Missouri, and by the hands of their
good brother the reverend Doctor Mile
doler, they now offer,
]. To send out a Mission family con-
sisting of good men and good women, to
live in The Great Usage nation of the Mis-
souri,.
2. To teach their red brothers, by their
Missionaries First, and above all, TO
know the will of the Great Spirit also, to
form school for the instruction of their
children. in reading, writing and arithme-
tic; to instruct their young men in some
of the most useful branches OF the mecban-
ic arts, and in hasbandry; and their oung
women in sewing, spinning, knitting, and
in The branches of domestic economy.
8. As the Board Of Managers do not
send out their Missionaries to do hurt but
to do good, they win not suffer them on
aoy account whatsoever, TO buy, nor take
for themselves, any land belonging 10 The
nation.
a. The Board will use their best en-
deavours to send out their Missionaries,
Oh or before the month of April next.
In making this covenant, the Board Of
Managers expect from their red brethren,
!. That they will receive and treat the
Mission Family that shall be sent TO them,
with constant love, and that they will pro-
tect them from all harm.
2. That they will help them to find a
suitable place TO erect their buildings TO
live in, and for the school, aud work shops
aud that they win also lay OF SO much land
as will enable them to SOW and plant, raise
corn and all such things required for their
support, and to feed the Usage children
who may be sent TO school and also to
teach the young men Of the Great Osages,
how to plough and SOW, aud gather ia
their wheat and rye and oats, aud in gen.
eral how TO cultivate their lands. aud that
the Great 0sages will protect the Mission
AIRY Family, and not suffer any one 10
hurt them on the ground occupied for
such useful purposes, nor permit it to be
taken from them unless the Osages shall
desire to have this done to please their
great father, the President of the United
States.
3. That the Missionaries, when they
are sent out will have gone so far from
their friends, the Great Usage nation will
be their friends, and viii comfort and en-
courage their hearts, by helping them and
doing them all the good they can ia every
way and especially that our red brothers
will diligently send their children to the
school when ii shall be opened, add help
the Missionaries TO maintain those good
rules which are observed in the govern
ment of our own children, aud without
which Trey cannot be instructed.
a. That if the Missionaries, or any Of
them, should ever so conduct themselves,
as to wrong or injure the nation, which
we hope will never be the case, that the
nation will not drive them away nor hurt
them, but that they will call council,
and if the council so determine, that they
will complain Of them to their great father
at Washington, or to the Society at New
York, who will take measures to punish
them, or to have them removed, as the
case shall require.
To which the Chief replied
Nh Friend-I have heard your talk.
You say your Society in New Y ork will
send family and make school in my
nation. We are glad--we accept your
offer with much pleasure.
Ny Friend-When | get back to my
village will tell this talk over to my
people. am satisfed--my friends here
are saiisfied--and my nation win be salts
fed.
nv Fnend-So soon as the family ar
rives at my nation, | will go out to meet
them, at the head Of my warriors, and
will receive them as my friends.
My Friend-You say you want piece
Of land--you may point it out, and it shall
be yours, wherever you choose. II shall
be for your use. ] will mark il out With