Look about your country and see ; you have no fortifications about you, no, not even to this city 'tis but one step from Canada hither, and the French may easily come and turn you ;

out of your doors.

" Brethren

You desire us to speak from the bottom of our

:

hearts,

and we

houses

full

shall

do

it.

Look about you and see all these

of beaver, and the

money is

all

gone to Canada,

likewise powder, lead and guns, which the French now make

use of at Ohio.

" Brethren

:

" Brethren

:

The goods which go from hence to Oswego, go from thence to Ohio, which further enables the French to carry on their designs at the Ohio.

You were desirous that we should open

minds, and our hearts to you ; look

at

our

the French, they are

men, they are fortifying everywhere but, we are ashamed to say it, you are all, like women, bare and open without any ;

fortifications."

At the same conference, in subsequent session, he spoke as follows

:

u Brethren

:

There is an affair about which our hearts tremble

and our minds are deeply concerned ; in

people. it

this

is

the selling of rum

destroys many, both of our old and young request of all the governments here present, that

our castles.

We

It

may be forbidden to carry any of it amongst the Five Nations. " Brethren We are in it may great fears about this rum :