Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1920 — PEACE TREATY THAT LASTED [ARTICLE]

PEACE TREATY THAT LASTED

Quaintly Worded Document Drawn Up at a Time When Men's Words Evidently Meant Something. The following quaint document If a treaty of peace signed in March. 1621, between the Englisß settlers and Che Indian braves, at Plymouth, Mass. ■ The treatypwas drawn up in a and, the record reveals, the Indians took an important part in drawing up the covenant. Massasoyt “signed" the document on behalf of the rest of his nation, and is the “he” referred to in the sly clauses. The white men are referred to in the plural form. “1. That neither he nor any of his. should injuirie or doe hurte to any of the peopl. “2. That if any of his did any hurte to any of theirs, he should send the offender, that they might punish him. “3. That if .anything were taken away from any of theirs, be should cause it to be restored; and they should doe the like to his, “4. If any did unjustly warr against him. they would aide him; If any did warr against them, he should aide them. “5. He should send to his neighbors confederate, to certlfle them of this, that they might not wrong them, but might be likewise comprised In the conditions of peace. ■ — “6. That when their men came to them,,they should leave their bows and arrows behind them.” This treaty was kept for fifty y ars without any amendment.