[undecipherable] [there?] [to?] [reason?] you and [many?] other [undecipherable] [nations?] to [convince?] that the [people] of the United States with [foreign?] [description?] — Brother I will [not?] hide it from you — [I?] [cannot?] hide it from you for you have already [heard?] it [said?] that There are [great?] white men who do not love you and will not [do?] [then?] [those?] who hate you & would [destroy?] [you?] — [But?] at the same time I tell you truly, that [such?] [bad?] men [have?] no part or influence in the Councils of the United States — [they] are lawless men, [scattered along] [the frontier] — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — But even these lawless men offer excuses for their [acts?] and for the injuries they com- mit — [they?] say that in the late war their fathers — [brothers?] [mothers?] [their?] [fathers?] [wives?] [children] [were?] — [their?] [property?] in this [home?] or on [something?] themselves were [?] [not?] to the [undecipherable] [?] [many of them were cruelly?] [?] [?] [death?], and [that?] in [their?] cruelty they take revenge — Brother — [truely tell you?] [undecipherable] has [this?] [people?] [reason?] badly — [this?] cause [this?] [and?] [undecipherable] — [their?] [practices are?] [unreasonable?] — [To join?] the [times?] [when?] those cruelties [they?] [were committed?] — Peace has been made between the United States and the Indian nations — [That?] peace was to put an end to hostilities and [injuries] on both sides — In the same manner as the peace with Great Britain put an end to hostilities [and?] between [the?] subjects [& the?] citizens of the United States — And those [persons?] [to?] whose relations [were?] [killed] by the British in the late war — men with equal right [give their?] revenge on British subjects as on Indians — Yes, I repeat it — I repeat it, because it is highly important to be known & well considered — That the [treaty?] of peace with the British [and?] with the Indians [nations?], are equally binding on the people of the United States — [The?] treaty [with?] Great Britain [declares?] that there shall be perpetual peace and friendship between [the?] subjects and the [citizens] of the United [States?] — The treaties with the Indian nations [?] that the [hatred?] shall in [forever?] [be?] [buried?], [Consequently?] [it?] [is?] [?] [?] [duty?] [of?] [either?] party to the other [?] during the [war?] [are to be?] [forgiven?] [by?] [each other?] — Such then — Is it lawful for a citizen of the United [States?] [who?] [?] his [or?] [brothers?] [truly?] [killed?] by the British, during [the?] [?] [?] — [?] [whom he meets?] — Every one who [hears] him will [call?] him to [account?] — I [ask] then, Is it lawful for an injured [?] [whose] father, brother, or other [relative?] [was?] [killed?] by [Indians?] [during the?] same [war?], in time of peace, to [father?] [on?] [and?] [to?] [kill?] [every?] Indian [whom he meets?] — To this question as well as the [former?] must not every one have [presenting?] in [?] — No! I [said?] [for?] [the?] same reason: [because?] peace has [now been made?] with the Indians, and [the?] [treaties?] of peace with [them?], it is [determined?] that the [hatred?] [is?] [to be?] [buried?] — [?] to both [?] of the [treaty?] with the British and the Indians — the [guilt?] of the United States [has?] [been?] [solemnly?] pledged [for?] [those?] [treaties?] — [?] [?] — Treaties are equally [binding?] as the laws of the United States — In [reality?] they are the laws of the United States — laws of the [strongest?] [obligation?] — [and most?] [easily?] [binding?] for a citizen of the United States to kill an Indian as a British subject — [Murders?] [are?] a [responsibility?] [which?] falls within [its?] [minimum?], and by the laws of the United States [and?] such [state?], to be put to death — Brother — The [judgments?] I have given [expressed?]: the [declarations?] I have made, are as well the [beliefs?] as the [firm?] [belief?] of the [treaty?] of peace [justifying?] between [undecipherable] the United States and you — I now express [these?] [judgments?] [I?] make [these?] [declarations], to show you what are the thoughts of the [General?] [?] of the United States [?] [few?] [bad men on?] the [frontier?] [excepted?] — Brother I have been the more particular because there are here present many citizens of the United States some of whom may [have?] heard very different opinions on this subject; opinions as dishonourable to those who hold them, as repugnant to humanity, as they are contrary to the Treaties and [Laws?] — Of what do [they?] [find?] [men?] complain? They complain of the [barbarity] and cruelty of the Indians — They say, that in time of [war?], the Indians fell upon defenceless men, women & children, and put [them?] to death — And what is the conduct of the [complainants?] [In time of Peace?] they do [undecipherable] [the Indians] [undecipherable] — They do the same thing in time of peace — [Let them] — [Let me?] [ask?] [also?] [my?] [fellow-citizens?] [undecipherable] — [who?] are most guilty [undecipherable] — [of?] [cruelty and barbarity?] — the [Indians?] who in time of [war?] [sometimes?] [put?] to death their prisoners [brothers?] [undecipherable] [or?] the white people who in time of peace murder [them?] [undecipherable] [peaceable?] friendly Indians, or [justify?] the [murderers?] [?] — [?] [?] [?] [that?] [they?] [the?] [?] [?] [something?] is not [confined to?] their [own?] [?] [infested?] by Indians upon [their?] enemies — [undecipherable] — [?] [the?] [same?] — [?] [our?] [enemies?] [?] — [something?] the principal [death?] [bringing?] [divided?] [therefore?] — [?] [whatever may?] [concern?] [him?] [with?] the people [?] — But, whatever may be their mode of [warfare?] — however [I?] opposed to the [sense of?] [humanity?], [?] the [present?] [feelings?] of the whole people — yet, when the [Supreme?] power of a nation enters into [a?] [treaty?] of peace with them, [they are something?] — [?] they are [entitled?] to all the [rights?] of peace equally with any [white?] nation of [whites?] — [I have spoken plainly.] [My?] Brothers — I [?] you [honestly?] [speak?] friendly — You see the [judgments?] of my heart — [Would?] to God it were in my power to [remove?] [them?] [ever?] — I now [mention?] that they might never again be repeated — I have freely [blamed?] [condemned?] the white people who have done you such wrong — But, Brothers — I cannot approve or justify [your?] manner of making war — [Listen?] Brothers, when the white nations go to war, they [attack?] [still?] or make prisoners of none but men, and [?] such men only as take up arms — [They?] [think?] it [truly?] dishonourable to [stain?] their [swords?] or their [hatches?] with the blood of [defenceless?] men, women or children — [Now?] it [?] [comes to?] pass, that when the white nations make peace [they?] are perfect friends — for there is no act of cruelty to revenge — [and?] no one [suffers?] for his [brothers?] blood — the people go from one country to the other, [trade?] [?], trade together like brothers of one [nation?] — Brother, how happy should we be, were all the [?] of the people of the [?] and all the Indian nations [our?] neighbours [equally?] [?] [?] [?] [?] [?] — [?] [undecipherable] — [something?] [the?] [?] [?] [?] [?] [?] [?] of the United States — Brothers [undecipherable] — [that?] practically [?] [?] — [?] [?] [?] [?] — [they?] —