Inducements to ratify Indian treaty: Page #4

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to obtain such instruction for their children and on this head the president was explicit, that they should receive the necessary aid. - The obvious consequence of such improvements is the seperate enjoyment of lands, the nature and advantages of such improvements were explained and appeared to have been fully understood by the Five Nations; and they have explicitly agreed to adopt them. They only wait for that assistance which they were assured the United States were ready to afford them. Should that assistance prove successful (for at this stage of the business I cannot entertain a suspicion that such assistance will not be furnished) it will tend to defeat the pre-emption right altogether. Unless those improvements by showing the Indians how small a portion of their lands under proper culture will suffice for their ample support, should induce them to