The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1852-11-06

rothers of the red race were Just, and they
'ere prepared to trust in their friendship ,
lie then untoded the writing of the treaty
# friendship and explained the clauses. one
tter the other. 1t recited that from that dav
he children of Onas and Lenni should be
brothers to each other-that all the paths
should be free and open-that the doors of
he red men should be open to the white man
that the children of Onas should not be-
lleve any false reports of the Lenni Lenape.
nor the Lenni Lenapc of the children of O.
mas but should come and sec for themselves,
as brothers, and bury such false reports in
the bottomless pit-that if the Christians
should hear Of anything likely to be of hurt
to the Indians, or the Indians hear ANYTHING
likely to be of hurt to the Christians, they
should run, like true friends, and let the 9TH
er know-that if any son of Onas were to do
any harm to any rcdskin, or any redskin
were to do any harm to the son of Onas, the
sufferer should not offer to right himself, but
should complain to the chiefs and to Onas,
that justice might be declared bv twelve hon
est men, and the wrong buried in pit with
no bottom-that the Lenni Lenapc should as
sist the white men, and the white men should
assist the Lenni Lenape against all such as
should disturb them or do them hurt-and
lastly that both Christians and Indians should
tell their children of this league and chain
of frcndship,that it should grow stronger and
stronger, aud be kept bri ght and clean with
out rust or split, while the waters run down
the creeks and rivers and while the sun and
moon and stars endured
He then laid the scroll on the ground
What King Tamincnt replied in not known,
except that in substance he was favorable to
the views of Penn. The sachems received
his proposals with decent gravity. and accept
cd it for themselves and for their children
No oaths, no official mummcricS were used
the treaty was ratified on both sides with
yea, the only one. says Noltaire, that the
world has known, never sworn to and never
broken.
This scene remained to the two races who
were witnesses and actors in 1t. an inherit
ance of good will and honorable pride for al
entire century. From year to year, says th'
venerable historian of the Six Nations Heck
wcldcr, the sachcms assembled their children
in the woods, in shady spot, as like as the,
, could find to that in which the great Ona
conferred with them. when they would Sprnn.
out his speeches on a blanket or clean piec
of bark < repeat it again and again TO thri
great satisfaction.
In a few years, Penn going beyond the Sc
and never returning. became to them so,
Il, Of mythical parsonage: they not only hcl
his memory in great vcncration, but trcatc
the whole body of white men more kindly tj
his sake To be a follower of OnaS was
=, all times passport to their protection an
=, hospitality.
Nor have his own conntrymen been less il
. dcbtcd or less grateful to the Great Treat
. 10 It, and to the >trictncSS with which
provisions We're maintained by Penn.iS own
to that striking fact recorded hv Bancroft
- that while every colony in the New Wor
- was visited by the horrors of Indian warfar
no drop of Quaker blood was ever shed BY
red man in PENNSYLVANIA.
1t is humiliating to the pride of the viii
man to think that one of his race should ha
been the first to break this noble league
, peace. Forty years after this famous treat
-, and five years after the death of Ona>, one
his unworthy children murdered the first r
man who lost his life in PENNSYLVANIA T
deed was attended with circumstances of l
r usual atrocity; but it shows in striking lie
the power of noble sentiment that the
l.. dians themselves prayed that the murdere
49,, life might be spared. 1t was spared, but
died in very short time. and they said
tod Great Spirit had avenged his brother.
=. The venerable elm under which the trc
ro1 took place served to mark the spot until
9 storm of 1910 threw it to the ground 1t me
a., ured n feet in girth, and was found to
All 2S3 years old a piece was sent home to
inn Penn family, by whom it was mounted OF
ov- pedestal with appropriate Inscriptions; ;
the remainder was manufactured into va
!. workStandS, and other relics now held sac
.;,h by their poSsessors. A plain monument
,h;s since been erected on the spot. inscribed
.oo each face with four short and simple sent
ces commemorative of the Great Treat,
80 Diron's Life Of Penn.