[Govenor 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- jaways — 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. Brother! I informed you last Summer, that the continual depredations of the Shawanefe and Miamies has 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. Brother! The United States did not wish to