[undecipherable header] Washington [undecipherable] Father I thank the great [undecipherable] for [undecipherable: protecting] us through [undecipherable] which we have [undecipherable] since I came last at this place — [undecipherable] you are about to retire from public [undecipherable: business]. I have come to [undecipherable] my [undecipherable: best] adieu to you as the great Chief of the fifteen [undecipherable], and am [undecipherable: happy] [undecipherable] to find that I have never known [undecipherable] to [undecipherable: oblige] you and more in [undecipherable] need to advance [undecipherable] with your [undecipherable] on the [undecipherable] of our Nation — you have always told us that the lands which we live upon is our own, and that in [undecipherable] make such use of it as we [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable: happiness] [undecipherable: and] prosperity — Father I wish while I am able to do [undecipherable: blessings] to provide for the rising generation — our Forefathers thought that their [undecipherable: posterity] would [undecipherable: preserve] their [undecipherable: lands] and [undecipherable: support] themselves by their [undecipherable: hands] as they did on the [undecipherable: extensive] [undecipherable: forests] given [undecipherable: them] by the Great [undecipherable: Spirit] and by those [undecipherable: laws] [undecipherable] to us. — that the great [undecipherable: revolution] amongst the [undecipherable: White] people on this country has [undecipherable: extended] [undecipherable: its] [undecipherable: influence] to the people of our [undecipherable: colour] — from our [undecipherable] which [undecipherable] we see on [undecipherable] the white people [undecipherable: cultivating] the ground which our [undecipherable: forefathers] [undecipherable: traveled] over, [undecipherable] the forests which [undecipherable] somewhat them with [undecipherable] now affords but a [undecipherable: scarcely] [undecipherable: subsistence] for us, and our [undecipherable: country] more [undecipherable] ...is [undecipherable: forcing] [undecipherable] a change, [undecipherable] the situation of our Children [undecipherable] calamities [undecipherable: increased] — Father [undecipherable: To you] I wish to draw your attention, and once more have your candid and [undecipherable: friendly] advice, on what [undecipherable] be best for the present case, and how we can best provide for posterity. — Your people have a different mode of [undecipherable: living] from [undecipherable: ours] [undecipherable] you have [undecipherable: had], and they have education which enables them to take different pursuits by which means they [undecipherable: maintain] themselves, provide for [undecipherable: their] Children, and [undecipherable: lift] each other — Father I am also told that your people have a [undecipherable: strong] [undecipherable] for their [undecipherable] ...[undecipherable] not only [undecipherable: so], but [undecipherable] our increase without [undecipherable: joining] [undecipherable]. If we [undecipherable: should] dispose of [undecipherable: half] of our [undecipherable: country], and put our money with [undecipherable: yours] in [undecipherable] [undecipherable: strong] place, will it be [undecipherable]? Will it yield to our children the same advantages [undecipherable] our head are [undecipherable: laid] down as it will at present [undecipherable: produce] to us? Will it be out of the reach of our foolish young men to that they [undecipherable] it to the [undecipherable: prejudice] of our Children? — [undecipherable: The President]: You know that [undecipherable] of our people are [undecipherable: as] fond of strong [undecipherable: drink] and I am sorry to observe that your people are too [undecipherable: apt] to [undecipherable: lay] that [undecipherable: temptation] before them — Father [undecipherable] I [undecipherable], [undecipherable] of you that every [undecipherable: mind] was [undecipherable] [Missing Page/s — Some or all of the pages of this file are wholly or in part missing, and we have not been able to locate a more complete copy of the document.]