[Page 1 GAE04] [top right: 2c 443] [left margin: 641/] A Instructions for Colonel Thomas Proctor Sir. Having offered to you the Execution of a Mission on the part of the United States to the Miamis and Wabash Indians, and you having accepted of the same, you are to receive these Instructions as the rule of your Conduct. The great object of your Journey is to impress the said Miamis and Wabash Indians with the Candor and Justice of the General Government. That the United States require only that they should demean themselves peaceably. That if they should listen to listen to the invitations, they only will be liable for the Evils which will fall upon, and crush them. That this invitation is not made in consequence of any principles of Fear, but from a desire to protect them if possible out of the ruin which is already unavoidable — Sir