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ORIGIN OF THE



of the whites. He has been taken prisoner, and his
plans are stopped. Hie can do no more. He is near his
end. His sun is setting, and he will rise no more. Fare-
well to Black Hawk."7



SPEECH OF THE ONONDAGAS AND CAYUGAS TO THE
  TWO GOVERNORS OF VIRGINIA AND NEW YORK.



  "Brother Corlear-Your
is a great Sachem, and we a
the English came in first
Aragiske (Virginia) and to
they were then but' a small
then; because we found yo
you kindly and gave you I
that you are grnit and we
from the French. "If you



Sachem (meaning the
ire but a small people:
to Manhattan kNew
Yakokranogary, (Mar
people, and we were
u a good people, we t
and; we hope therefor



>small, you
do not we



wil,
shall



I



prot
lose {



king)
when
York)
yiand)
great
treated
,e now
ect us
ill our



hunting and beavers,
vers. The reason the
cause we carry our be
put our lands and our
great DuLke of York, t
who is likewise a grea'
Susquehanna River,'
their government; an
the great tree that gro'
reaches the sun, and
French and all other
houses, and your fire I
so always. But we wi
people settle upon the
no other land for our
diers, and when they,
in the woods, as yot
know. We have put
Charles, that lives on



the French
qy are now
,aver to ouh
selves unde
he brother (



a
r
r



wvill get all
ngrv with i
brethren.
the protecti
your great



Ou]
IS, i
We
on
Sai



r bea-
is bee
have
of the
chem,



t Sachem. We have annexed the
which was won by the sword, to



d we
ws in
I its 1:
nsatlo
)utns



desire it
this plac
iranches
ns. Ou
with us;



i1 not that a:
S usquehann
children ; ou



13
a
r



may be a branch of
e; the top of which
shelter us from the
r fire burns in your
we desire it may be
r ot the great Penn's
l River, for we have
young men are sol-



are provoked they are like wolves
i, Sachem of Virginia, very well
ourselves uinder the great Sachenm
the other side of the great lake (the