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have fine provisions, and our fattier beyond the lake (the
governor at Detroit) will care for you. This is my
message, and I am come hither purposely to deliver it."



SPEECH OF PETCHENANALAS.



  " Friends and Kinsman: listen to w
You see a great and powerful nation 4
the father fighting against the son, and
father. -The father h as called on hi
to assist him in punishing his children, tl
have become refractory. I took time I
should do ; whether or not I should rn



rhat I say to you.
livided. You see
the son against the
is Indian children
ie Americans, who
to consider what I
eceive t hehatchet



of my father, to assist him. At first I looked upon it as a
family quarrel in which I was not interested, at length it
appeared to me, that the father was in the right, and his
children deserved to be punished a litt e.-That this must
be the case, I concluded from the many cruel acts his
offspring had committed, frotm time to time, on his Indian
children-in encroaching on their lands, stealina their
property-shooting at and murdering without cause, men,
women, and children;-yes, even murdering those who
at all times had been friendly to them, and were placed
for protection under the roof of their father's house; the
father himself standing sentry at the door, at the time:
Friends and relatives, often has the father been obliged to
settle and make amends for the wrongs and mischiefs
done uIs by his refractory children ; yet these do not grow
better. No! they remain the same, and willcontinue to
be so, as long as we have any land left us; Look back
at the murders committed by the Long Knives on many
relations, who lived peaceable neiohbouirs to them on
the Ohio! Did they not kill them without the least pro-
vocation '-are they, do you think, better now, than they
were then; No, indeed not; and many days are not
elapsed, since you had a number of these very men