A formal declaration or covenant of peace and then was made, and the war dance celebrated. friendship Still Johnson was not altogether satisfied that his work was He knew that the Lenapes^ and their allies, aspired well done. to if they did not possess the independence which they claimed, and that so long as this was denied, peace would not be possible. The necessities of the English were great, 1 the determination of the Lenapes and their allies undisguised. Selfishness became the ally of justice

the diplomacy of Teedyuscung secured the

In the watches of the night Johnson triumph of his people. on the and meditated, morning of the 1 2th of July, after con sultation with the sachems of the Six Nations, declared to the

Lenape king, and the representatives of the Shawanoes and Mabicans, that, in consideration of the promise they had made, and in full confidence of their future suitable behavior, they

were " hereafter to be considered as men," by all their brethren the English, u and no longer as women," and expressed the hope that the Six Nations would follow his example and remove the "invidious distinction." 2 Decking the chiefs with medals, and the kings with silver gorgets, he covered the em from his presence a rehabi

bers of the council-fire, and sent litated race.

The good

consequences that will the accommodating of this unbreach are great. It will give a happy great turn to the affairs of the present war

Shawanese that are settled on the Ohio from the French interest. I doubt their