[Governor St. Clair's Message.] To the Half King and the Chiefs of the Wyandots. Brothers! When I was last at Fort Harmar I left a Message for you, and for the Ottawas and Chip-peways — I hope you received them, and have found an opportunity to send them forward. Brothers! It would have given me great pleasure to have seen you at Fort Harmar, and to have taken you by the hand in testimony of that friendship which the United States bears to your nation. Brothers! I informed you last Summer, that the continual depredations of the Shawanese and Miamies had roused the resentment of the United States, and that they would no longer bear them. You know my brothers that evil did befall them, but because they were not destroyed entirely, it has had no effect upon them; and they have since done mischief, and killed a number of defenceless women and children. Brothers! The United States did not wish to destroy them — Why should they? — Is not the country large enough for both of us? But, they hoped a little correction would have brought them to their senses, and that they might again have been received into Friendship. Brothers! Notwithstanding all the mischief those foolish nations have done, and some of those on the Wabash, they do not wish to destroy them now, and upon proper submission we might still be friends; and it is to let them know precisely the situation in which they stand, and the disposition the United States are in towards them, that Colonel Procter, who will deliver this to you, is now sent to them. If they will hearken to him well — If they will not, their blood be upon their own heads. The United States will no longer suffer their depredations, and if they bring utter destruction upon them they will be justified before the Great Spirit and all the world. Brothers. Colonel Procter is the messenger of peace to all nations — If they will hearken to him this Tree that we planted at the Muskingum will grow and flourish, and they may sit under its shade. If they will not hearken to him, keep yourselves at a distance for ruin will surely overtake them. Farewell! I am assured friend A^r St Clair, Governor of the Territory of the United States, North West of the Ohio Philadelphia March 8^th 1791