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ORIGIN



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want to enjoy our own.
you have not come to get our
enlighten our-minds. I will
been at your meetings, and
from the meeting. I cannot
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way of thinking, perhaps you may want some from us.
   "Brother, we are told that you have been preaching
to white people in this place; these people are our neiah-.
bours, we are acquainted with them; we will wait a
little while and see what effect your preaching has upon
them."
  In alluding to the crucifixion of our Saviour he said,
on some other occasion,
  "Brother, if your white men murdered the son of the
Great Spirit, we Indians had nothing to do with it, and
it is none of our affair. If he had come among us we
would not have killed him; we would have treated him
well, you must make amends for that crime yourselves."


             SPEECH OF RED JACKET.

  The witch doctrine of the Senecas was much ridiculed
by some of the Americans, to which Red Jacket thus
aptly alludes in a speech which he made while on the
stand giving evidence against a woman who was believed
to be a witch, and who for that crime was put to death
by the Indians themselves:
  " What! do you denounce us as fools and bigots, bee
cause we still continue to believe that which you your-
selves sedulously inculcated two centuries ago 3 your
divines have thundered this doctrine from the pulpit, your
judges have pronounced it from the bench, your courts
of justice have sanctioned it with the formalities of law,