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Title: The discovery and conquests of the Northwest : including the early history of Chicago, Detroit, Vincennes, St. Louis, Ft. Wayne, Prairie du Chien, Marietta, Cincinnati, Cleveland, etc., etc., and incidents of pioneer life in the region of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Blanchard, Rufus, 1821-1904. (from old catalog) Haines, Elijah Middlebrook, 1822-1889. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Indians of North America Names, Indian
Publisher: Chicago : Cushing, Thomas & Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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spicuous, are on the GreatMiami, which were possessed by the French forty-five years ago;and another trace is very distinctly to be seen at Sandusky. Itappears to me, that, if tlie Great Spirit, as you say, charged yourforefathers to preserve their lands entire for their posterity, theyhave paid very little regard to the sacred injunction: for I seet\\Qj hav^e parted with those lands to your fathers, the French, andthe English are now, or have been, in possession of them all;therefore, I think the charge urged against the Ottawas, Chippe-was, and the other Indians, comes with a bad grace, indeed, fromthe very i-)eople who perhaps set them tlie example. The Eng-lish and Fi-ench both wore hats; and yet your forefathers soldthem, at various times, portions of your lands. However, as Ihave already observed, you shall now receive from the UnitedStates further valuable compensation for the lands you have cededto them by former treaties. Younger brothers: I will now inform you who it was who
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Terms of Peace. 221 gave us these lands, in tlie first instance. It was your fatliers,the British, wlio did not discover that care for your interest whichyou ouo;ht to have experienced. This is the treaty of peace,made letween the United States of America and Great Britain,twelve years ago, at the end of a long and bloody war, when theFrench and Americans proved too powerful for the British. Onthese terms they obtained peace. (Here part of the treaty of1783 was read.) Here you perceive that all the country south ofthe great lakes has been given up to America; but the UnitedStates never intended to take that advantage of you which theBritish placed in their hands; they wish you to enjoy your justrights, without interruption, and to promote your happiness. TheBritish stipulated to surrender to us all the posts on their side ofthe boundary agreed on. I told you, some days ago, that treatiesshould ever be sacredly fulfilled by those who make them; butthe British, on their part, did not fi

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