by expelling the Senecas, Onondagas and Gayugas from all the country within its bounds which had not been ceded by them under the treaty of 1768; but congress adopted a more liberal policy, never theless one involving punishment. Commissioners on the part

of the United States met the representatives of the tribes at Fort Schuyler in October, 1784, prepared to negotiate a treaty based on a concession of territory.

The Mohawks were not

delay until the tribes on the the but commissioners would^ not

the Senecas asked

represented ; Ohio could be

summoned,

consent, nor would they recognize a unity that did not exist. Red Jacket opposed the burial of the hatchet, while Cornplanter counseled peace, regarding the loss of territory,

on the

terms offered, as far better than the hazards of further war. The efforts of the latter prevailed, and, on the twenty-second, a treaty

was signed by which the United States gave peace to

Mohawks, Senecas, Onondagas and Cayugas, and received them under their protection, on condition that all the prisoners the

in their possession,

white and black, should be delivered up.

The Oneidas and Tuscaroras, as well as all the tribes, were secured in the possession of the lands they were then occupying,

with power to sell and relinquish, but at the same time gave up all

claims to the territory not in absolute occupation^west of a mouth of the Oyonwayea creek, flowing

line beginning at the

into Lake Ontario four miles east of Niagara, thence southerly,