and they be bidden to withdraw that they never made any agree ment with the king by which their lands followed the fortunes ;

of his wars, nor would they now make a treaty which denied

"

to them the right to make bargain or cession of lands when " ever and to whomsoever they pleased ; peace with them could

be had only on the basis that the Ohio should remain the boundary line beyond which the white man should not come.

" We can retreat no

affords sisted

food for

further, because the country behind hardly

present inhabitants ;

its

among them, which

was not

willing to lessen by considering them as one people. They do not so consider

themselves ; and

am

persuaded their general confederacy is entirely broken, Indeed, it would not be very difficult, if circumstances required it, to set them at

we have

deadly variance."

therefore

Am. State Papers, iv,

10.

*In

other words,

to

the

Yankees,

against whom he manifested at all times the most intense hatred. *

Stone* s Life

of Brant y

Gallatin, 50, 51, 68.

11,

308, etc.;

THE INDIAN TRIBES

resolved to leave our bones in this small space, to which we are

now consigned." Thirteen tribes, the Lenapes^ Shawanoes, Minsis^ Mahicans, of the Delaware, Nanticokes and Conoys, the seven nations of

Canada, the Wyandots, Miamis, Chippeways and Pottawattamies^ and the Senecas of the Glaize, signed the declaration, and on the thirtieth of June following, sealed it with the blood of their bravest