to them an earnest and eloquent appeal to preserve their neu and refrain from further hostilities, to sit under the shade trality,

of their

own trees and by the side of their own streams and

" smoke their

pipe in

safety

This address recognized the division

which then existed

in

the confederacy,

To the four hostile tribes, it said "

:

Brothers, Cayugas, Senecas, Onondagas and Mohawks : Look well into your

and contentment

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j

but they

Much are you hearts, and be attentive. to blame, and greatly have you wronged us.

Be wise in time.

faults.

blood

Be sorry for your

The great council, through the of our friends who fell by your

OF HUDSON'S RIVER.

would not listen, and grew bold in the supposed impossibility of The visitation which they being reached by the government. had provoked was a necessity.

The scourging army passed by the towns of the Oneidas and Tuscaroras, and struck

its

blows where chastisement was most

deserved.

A single village of the Mohawks was spared, con

sisting of

four

prisoners ;

houses, the occupants of which were made but the torch was stayed by the entreaties of home

less frontier settlers

who begged that they might occupy them

them was also given the and and the horses stores furniture, of the remain cows, grain, until they could procure others, and to

ing followers of Little Abraham, who had found opportunity to make themselves obnoxious as informers, if not as active participants in traditional