Response from Federal Commissioners for Sandusky Conference to General Council at rapids of Miami speech of 13 August 1793
Document 1793Response to Council of Miami Rapids speech of 13 August 1793 [received 16 August and submitted on the same day] and relayed via two Wyandot runners from Captain Elliott's at the mouth of the Detroit River. Addressed to the Chiefs and Warriors of the Indian Nations assembled at the foot of the Miami Rapids. The commissioners restate that it is impossible to make the Ohio River the the boundary between Indian lands and the lands of United States. Commissioners state that, since the Council has made this point non-negotiable, the treaty proceedings must therefore come to an end. Commissioners express regret that peace was not the result.
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