the Lenapes to yield possession of the lands.

you ; we made women of you

u We

conquered

we charge you to remove in we don't give you liberty to think about it we assign

stantly ;

;

;

you two places to go to, either to Wyoming or Shamoking," was their answer, and the debate was closed. The Lenapes had removed as they were bidden, and settled in the valley of Wyoming, but with that removal and settlement

the " undisciplined feeling of natural equity

"

was fully developed

Whatever of doubt hung over their right

in them.

of pos

from which they had been ejected, there was none in regard to those to which they had been assigned. The Five Nations had given them the latter, and they were session to the lands

theirs.

In the sale to the Connecticut company these lands in that to the agents of the Pennsylvania pro

were included

;

prietaries, their

more western hunting grounds were cut off Remembering that by precisely similar

without their consent.

means they had been despoiled of their former homes, they resolved to fight to the last in defense of their rights ; to revenge this last

the

well

bosoms

and crowning outrage, and to wipe away with blood remembered wrongs which had rankled in their

for years.

The chiefs of the east met those of the

west in council at Alleghany, rehearsed the wrongs which they had suffered, and declared that wherever the white man had settled within the territory which they claimed, there they would strike him as best they could with such