Fair and Equitable Terms of Peace
Document 1794Following the defeat of the northern tribes at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, General Wayne proposes terms for a lasting peace that will serve the interests of both red and white people.
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[undecipherable] as trust for the [undecipherable], so as to give the British, a pretext or colour for asserting them — that the Americans refused to allow on all their posts any [undecipherable] on the [undecipherable] of that River, and, adopt the provisions should move them to do — immediately after they as [undecipherable] were defensible in force in [undecipherable] — and to call upon the British to guarantee the shares that should be held out to make a general Attack upon the [undecipherable] at the same time —
But the British wish to prepare to attack the Americans
[undecipherable] on every Quarter. I would engage them to keep the Ohio and to give up the lands to the [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] who tells them to keep good heart. He [undecipherable]. For in their further [undecipherable] them that he would return home for the present with his [undecipherable] — are now again early in the spring with an additional number, so it is from the which concerns before that is [undecipherable] — that the [undecipherable], who had not hitherto then against the [undecipherable] — they would turn the attack to him — that he has always been employed in their service from time to time —
But that he would seek an Address of the [undecipherable] or at most only just then upon [undecipherable] power Views — them often the [undecipherable] in this quarter among the British. Therefore he concerted then among them [undecipherable] with a prospect of them unless they should collect in force to fall upon them early in the [undecipherable] as often have reported — But agreeable to that plan of attack — the [undecipherable] British today will be covering those frequently mainly the frontier with [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] — but these I will present are all [undecipherable] did at the anniversary of that year —
The British nearly keep promises to the [undecipherable] at the late [undecipherable] and endeavors to [undecipherable] them with Messages from the [undecipherable] Fort [undecipherable] upon the Mouth of the [undecipherable] or Lake Erie, when all the [undecipherable] are United to in [undecipherable] of houses and perfectly well instructed that whoever I do be at any time there are not exactly what the British request then, that one of the present prevailing opinion of the breaking up of the [undecipherable] Stores, which given the allegiance of proprietors of the [undecipherable], as testified to the [undecipherable] tribes of [undecipherable] the body of the [undecipherable] River — the project of a [undecipherable] or a preliminary offer of return [undecipherable] operations from [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] and has been communicated to [undecipherable] upon the conditions of [undecipherable] — if the affairs of the Chiefs of several of the tribes [undecipherable] against the [undecipherable] is now [undecipherable] — to last — any about the plan of the attack — [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] of that forces than against the [undecipherable] to be faithful to their [undecipherable] as they had promised — he then went, then [undecipherable], towards his [undecipherable] any thing that they have any [undecipherable], they declined a majority to make a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] they [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] —
But not withstanding this — The [undecipherable] and Indians are more [undecipherable] — one for [undecipherable], one for war. The prisoners of [undecipherable] are [undecipherable], the [undecipherable] taken in war. The prisoners are [undecipherable] by [undecipherable] a [undecipherable], and are [undecipherable] upon the British for provisions — The [undecipherable] being so far [undecipherable] — the [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] we shall some of — I mean, from the side — That each of the chiefs [undecipherable] are inclined to peace — each can in a Council are [undecipherable] to bring of short of present after the same purpose as they wish to let them learn about the Americans — one not a man in British others this they will also —
That [undecipherable] this his [undecipherable] upon all their movements — I that as [undecipherable] of particularly now is a very [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — the an opportunity that they still in [undecipherable] it avows under the [undecipherable] of the Americans — or to him — a [undecipherable] with the last [undecipherable] — they can obtain a majority for peace among the [undecipherable] styled they as not [undecipherable]
[in that case, the [undecipherable] with [undecipherable] flag with a white [undecipherable] at the [undecipherable] [undecipherable]]
[meet — this [undecipherable] does not [undecipherable] its peace, but [undecipherable] I believe the other [undecipherable]]
Head Quarters
Greenville, [undecipherable] January 1796
Sir,
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 18th of November [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
with the enclosure which fully [undecipherable] your faithful [undecipherable] — to [undecipherable] peace between the
United States of America and the [undecipherable] tribes of Indians — [undecipherable] which event appears [undecipherable] —
[undecipherable] inform your [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] long road, in Order to the Chiefs of the [undecipherable] stations —
[undecipherable] or [undecipherable] at the [undecipherable] but [undecipherable] that the [undecipherable] fall of time [undecipherable] —
That Chief from [undecipherable] at this place for some days [undecipherable] —
I would [undecipherable] you to obtain [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from all the [undecipherable] Chiefs and
Warriors of Sandusky, it will I think [undecipherable] also serve the [undecipherable] of Order. [undecipherable] them
firmly upon the Chiefs of the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] River. The Warriors of [undecipherable] are [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] to [undecipherable] any thing [undecipherable] with the present Speech, and long [undecipherable] after they are
in [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for them to [undecipherable] with the United States any longer —
for as recent at this as a grand [undecipherable] after — they seek to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] on the [undecipherable] of the
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] if they do not [undecipherable] the peace we enjoy —
[undecipherable] Brothers [undecipherable] has [undecipherable] of a private [undecipherable] of my friendship — and [undecipherable] for you with
[undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] further [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the United States — [undecipherable] —
United States and the Indian tribes — [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] — perhaps you may find the [undecipherable] —
[undecipherable] him [undecipherable] — to come [undecipherable] together with the other Chiefs to [undecipherable] —
Wishing you a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] am your [undecipherable]
[signed]
Anthony Wayne
[N.B. express on horseback from [undecipherable]
that [undecipherable] you can [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to return with [undecipherable]]
[undecipherable] Agent
to the Indians of [undecipherable]
Type
Typed Document
Description
Following the defeat of the northern tribes at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, General Wayne proposes terms for a lasting peace that will serve the interests of both red and white people.
Date
12/04/1794
Recipient
Repository
Collection
Document number
1794091237002
Page start
13
Note
Typed document enclosed as part of a series of missives from Wayne to sundry chiefs and sachems.
Notable persons
Anthony Wayne
Sachems and Warriors belonging to the Chippawas, Delawares, Shawanese, Wyandots, Miamis, Tawas, Potawatomies
the President [Washington]
bad white men at the fort of the rapids
Stephen Young
George White Eyes
Robert Wilson, Interpreter
American prisoners
Notable locations
Grand Glaize
Roche de Bout
Greeneville
Notable items
permanent, fair, and honorable peace with every tribe north of the Ohio
voice of truth and peace
preliminaries of a lasting peace
scalping knife
tomahawk
drops of blood
your cultivated lands and hunting ground
corn

