[Copy] [...] and all the other Sachems and War [Chiefs at] Sandusky. Brothers. I have received your letters and verbal message by Enos Coon and [a young] Wyandot Warrior, and thank the Great Spirit for opening your eyes and Changing the Inclination of your [minds] from War to peace and which otherwise would have terminated in your total extirpation. The pleasure you express upon hearing my Voice and the promise you make, that you will tell your Warriors to lay down their Hatchets and not to strike as any more is very pleasing to me. I will now on my part order my Warriors not to strike any of your peaceable People, but to receive them with friendship and treat them with Kindness and as a pledge of my peaceable disposition towards you and your people, I send you a string of white Wampum. Brothers.— You say there may be some foolish Young Men, such as [undecipherable] [undecipherable] many do mischief to you; for them I cannot answer. There may also be some foolish Young Men among us, who (like yours) have at home, may also do mischief; nor can I answer for their conduct — but let you and me join Heart — and [Hand] and use every possible [endeavour] to prevent any mischief [being] done to either of us by these [bad] people agreeably to our mutual [promises] to each other of the Treaty [held] at the mouth of Muskingeum on the [undecipherable]^th day of January 1789, as particularly [lately] mentioned in Article 8^th viz: "Should any Nation of Indians [enter] into a War against the United States; or either of them, and the Same should come to the Knowledge of the before mentioned nations, or either of them, the Wyandots, Delawares, Ottawas, Chippewas, Pottawatomis, and Sack Nations, they do here by engage to give notice there of to the Governor or in his absence to the Officer Commanding the troops of the United States at the nearest Fort and should any Nation with hostile Intention against the United States or either of them at [tempt to] pass through their Country, they will endeavour to prevent the Same and in like manner give information of such attempt to the said Governor or Commanding Officer as soon as possible that all causes of mistrust or suspicion may be avoided between them at the United States. In like Manner the United States shall give Notice to the Said Indian Nations of any harm that may be meditated against them, that Shall Come [come] to their Knowledge and do all in their power to hinder and prevent the Same; that the friendship between them may be uninterrupted. Brothers. It is the duty and interest of us of us to observe this article inviolate upon all occasions, and particularly yours, because should you permit [the] bad Indians to pass thro' your Country to Strike any of our Warriors or at any of our Settlements or to Steal Horses or other property from the Inhabitants, they will naturally be pursued and possibly some of your innocent people may suffer on account of the conduct of these bad Indians, whom you ought immediately to drive from among you in order to prevent mistakes. Brothers. You express some apprehension of injury from some of the hostile tribes on account of the part you have lately taken. Your Father General Washington the President of the fifteen [States] of America will take you under his protection and has ordered me to defend his dutiful Children from any injury that may be attempted against them on account of their peaceable disposition towards the United States and for which purpose he will order a Fort to be built at the [foot] [foot] of the Rapids of Sandusky on [the] reserved lands as soon as the [season] and circumstances will per[mit]. Brothers. I have received information from [General] Hamtramck, one of my principal [Officers] Commanding at the [Miamis] [Villages], that the Chiefs of the Chippewas, [Ottawas], Sacks, Pottawatomies and [undecipherable] say that the Chiefs of the remaining hostile Tribes had receded [from] the prevailing opinion and were [for] peace and that the Chiefs are now on their way to this place, and may be expected in the Course of a few days after the arrival of the Chiefs of the five Nations before mentioned. Brothers. In order to convince you [that] you have been imposed upon by [Governor] Simcoe Colonel [McKee] and others at the foot of the rapids of the Miamis of the lakes, I herewith transmit you a Copy of a letter from Lord Dorchester the British Governor of all Canada dated Quebec 6^th Octber 1794, which I received a few days ago; by this letter you will see that what Governor Simcoe, Colonel [McKee] and Captain Brant told you [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the Detroit [undecipherable] was not true. You therefore cannot Come forward [undecipherable] in order to agree with the Chiefs of the other Nations upon [the] times of holding a general Treaty, [the] purpose of removing all causes of contrariety, and establishing a permanent peace between the United [States] of America and the Indians North West of the Ohio. (signed) Ant^o: Wayne.             Major General and             Commander in Chief of the             Legion of the United States. Greeneville:            Commissioner Plenipotentiary 1^st January 1795.        of the said United States             of America for Settling a             permanent peace with all             the Indian Tribes and Nations North West of the Ohio. (a Copy)    H^o [undecipherable] (signed)     Colonel Com^y             [signature] [Endorsed]: — B — Du L^t Governor Simcoe's N^o 21 to the Duke of Portland [Dorse endorsement]: Copy of a Speech from Gen^l Wayne to the Sachems & War Chiefs of Sandusky 1 Jany 1795