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Speech of the sirkar Terry of war, to the Chiefs and Warriors of new the Potawatomi, Ottawa, and Chippewa nations. New brothers, new your father, the president of the United States new has heard what you have said with great attention, and materiale deliberated, upon your request. That he caused to be confirmed certain sales of your lands new made by you 2 individuals, previous to the treaty at Greenville, in order that new the purchasers maybe enabled to occupy the lands, and you become entitled new to receive the rents stipulated to be paid. Noon
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Speech of the sirkar Terry of war, to the Chiefs and Warriors of
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     you say that you mentioned these grants to general Wayne, cut off word the treaty of Greenville, and that you had assurances from him they would be new provided for, and included in the treaty. The letters from general Wayne new have been illegible particularly the letter he sent with the original treaty, in a new which he says, that he met with many difficulties, and among others, that new certain persons kept the Ottawa, wyandots, and potawatomis, in the vicinity new of Detroit, in a state of intoxication, for many weeks, whilst purchasing new Their lambs, for the most trifling considerations.
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the Potawatomi, Ottawa, and Chippewa nations.
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     He says further, that as soon as illegible, and the other Indian new Chiefs, were aroused from a state of intoxication, and recovered the reason, they new came forward, and add a private audience kraid him to relieve them from their new disagreeable situation, that they had given away all their land to certain people new, when in a state of intoxication. New the general, it appears, would not permit any claim in the treaty new which might be construed to confirm such sales, or put the land, out of the protection new of United States, for the use of the Indian nations. Brothers,
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Brothers,
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    Your father, the president of the United States
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has heard what you have said with great attention, and materiale deliberated, upon your request. That he caused to be confirmed certain sales of your lands
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made by you 2 individuals, previous to the treaty at Greenville, in order that
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the purchasers may be enabled to occupy the lands, and you become entitled
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to receive the rents stipulated to be paid.
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     You say that you mentioned these grants to general Wayne, [cut off word] the treaty of Greenville, and that you had assurances from him they would be  
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provided for, and included in the treaty. The letters from general Wayne
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have been illegible particularly the letter he sent with the original treaty, in a
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which he says, that he met with many difficulties, and among others, that
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certain persons kept the Ottawa, wyandots, and potawatomis, in the vicinity
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of Detroit, in a state of intoxication, for many weeks, whilst purchasing
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their lands, for the most trifling considerations.
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     He says further, that as soon as [illegible], and the other Indian
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Chiefs, were aroused from a state of intoxication, and recovered the reason, they
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came forward, and add a private audience kraid him to relieve them from their
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disagreeable situation, that they had given away all their land to certain people
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when in a state of intoxication.  
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    The General, it appears, would not permit any claim in the treaty
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which might be construed to confirm such sales, or put the land, out of the protection
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of the United States, for the use of the Indian Nations.  
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Brothers,