Niagara July 9^th 1793 The Answer of the Commissioners of the United States to the Speech delivered yesterday by Captain Brant, in behalf of the Western Indians — Brothers, By the appointment of the Great Spirit we are again met together. We hope he will attend us on both sides, to see & to do what is right. It gives us pleasure that this meeting is by the pleasure of our Brothers, the English. Brothers, Yesterday, according to your promise, & that those who did in the reason why the nations, whom you represent, had delayed Assembling at the time & place appointed for meeting us — "that it was because there was so much of the appearance of war in that quarter" — Brothers, You requested an explanation of those warlike Appearances — Brothers, You told us that the People whom we now here were sent to represent the Indian Nations who own the lands on the Northern side of the Ohio, as their common property, and who are all of one mind and one heart — Brothers