The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1859-08-12

tiIe PEFSersdtIoH OF the UntOEs WHICH prompted
one sixth part of Washington's Farewell Ad-
dress. Would to Heaven that his sadly earnest
counsels on this subject might spread peace
and brotherly love throughou the land, as if
the sal nted hero himself could burst his cere-
ments, and proclaim them in visible presence
before his fellow citizens. They would be-
worth to US, merely in reference to national
strength, more than armies or nayies. or "walis
along the steep" I speak literally, Sir, it
were better Ior the safety OF the CO Gntry
against foreign foe that the union OF the
States should be preserved, than that we
should WELD the army of Napoleon and til e
navy of England, while lowering on the verge
of separation. 1t would be less dangerous that
the combined fleets OF Europe should thunder
in our seaports, than that one-haIf OF the coun-
try should be arrayed against the other.
Sir, about fifteen minutes before I left my
door to go to the fremont Temple, ] received
from friend in Virginia an extract from the
public records of that State, which, if mistake
not, you viii deem well worthy of your notice.
| 1t is IN the following terms
At a treaty held at Lancaster, Pa, July,
1T74, between the Lieutehant Governor Of
Pennsylvania, he Commissioners of Virginia and
Maryland, on the one part, and the Indians of
the Six Nations on the other, Conestoga; the
head Chief, spoke as follows to the colonial rep
re sentatives:
'We have one thing further TO say, and that
is, We heartily recommend union and good
agreement between you and your bret hreh.-
Never disagree, but preserve strict friendship for
one another, aud thereby 5oth you as we'll as
We will become the stronger.
''Our wise foreiathers established union and
amity between the FIVE nations. This has made
Us formidable this has given US great weight
and authority with our neighboring nations
We are powerful confederacy, and by your
observing the same methods as our wise forefath-
ers have taken, you will acquire great strength
never fall out viii one hetall 9ss
from Record of Indian Treaties, in the Virginia
STATE Lbrary.)
Nv friend adds -"What makes this wise
and excellent admoniton more impressive is
the fact that it was given on the Fourth OF Ju
iy,'
AS showed this paper few moments ago
10 your President and the orator OF the day
(who has iust left the tablet Mr.. Choate remar-
ked, sand the moral Of that piece OF advice, the
circumstances which have caused the annibila-
ton o. the Six Nations within 81 years. are If
possible, more significant than the COUNSEL
itself" Mr. Choate had not time to
unfold tie significance Of this remark, but
think understand it. The Six Nations were
indeed powerful centederacy. They occup-
ed the central portion OF the North American
continent, on this side Of the Ohio and the NJ is
sissippi Their influence extended from Lake
Ontario TO the Chesapeake Bay, from the Mo-
hawk 70 the James River, perhaps farther. AT
one time they transacted business with the Colo
NAL government at Albany another at Lancas-
ter at another at Williamsburg or Annapolis
and at another at the confluence OF the Ale
gheny and the Monongahela. But their con-
fsderacv never extended beyond the Six Ma
tiops they were successively at W ar with the
Algonauins of the North and East the Chero-
KEGS and Creeks OF the South and Wes! and
the powerful tribes of various names beyond the
Ohio The red man has ever been the red
mans deadllest foe. Had all the native tribes OF
of the North American continent been bound
together ir grand confederacy, such as was
projected by Pontiac in the last century, and
bv Tecurnseh in our day, no not say that they
would have eventually stood ftheir ground a.
gainst the swelling numbers OF the white race
crowding upon them with the arts and weapons
Of civilization, but most assuredly they would
have long wieIded power emlnently ioTmida-
bic to the rising States, and would have greatly
postponed .he,r own disappearance from the
face ofthe earth. What the United States would
be, if, instead of this Imperial Union, which
concentrates into one irresistible power the re-
sources of thirty-two States, and covers with
its agiS the vast territory which extends from
Texas to Maine and from the Atlantic 10 the
Pacific, they were broken up into as many mi
nor confederacies and separate independent
tribes as our red brethern, let the disappearance
not merely of the Five Nations, but OF SO many
other warlike confederacIes and tribes, partly
teach US
must not, however, forget, sir, that you bid
rue speak of 'the day we celebrate; but how can
do so in worthy terms, unless indeed | could
borrow the breathing thoughts, the burning
words to which we have already listened with
delight. Surely day without parallel in the