The Western Register and Terre-Haute advertiser, Volume 3, Number 34, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 November 1826 — Page 3

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We understand there \$ tome difler•nce of opinion between the Potawattatoies and Miaraies respecting thrfr claim J0 Ihis land. This difference we should be-glad to have you settle between yemv •elves- If you can do this it will be %ell. It not, we-shall examine into the circumstances and decide between you.

ISov Cass followed up the foregoing Written address by an extemporaneous $ne as follows-

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ft good man, and your sincere friend, is willing to accompany you, with his uuiform desire to benefit and instruct your children, in the desireable country I have proposed for your future residence His example and bis advice will always guide you in the true path zM every desire to "better your condition, and to improve your means of living happily in peace with your white brethren and with each other, you have fceerf incited here by your great father, and are now sitting around our council &e, under tht flag of the (Tnited States. *-You know it wul ensure to you safety and protection, in well doing. Your •^roung men are not always prudent they have a desire to drink, and its indulgence causes quarrels. We hope the old and the wise men, will keep the young and iatemperatg from doing in*

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Jury. If blood should be shed at ou* council fire we never should forgive it We have the will and the power, to punish evil doers Your great father has a sharp eye, a quick ear,a strong arm and a long memory If Potawattamie or Miami strike each other they strike us. *We shall feel it, and punishment must follow No matter where the guilty nay fly to escape None shall escape We promise h&e before our brethren ted and white, we shall not afterwards kindle another council fire, nor smoke another pipe, until the guilty be punished

Your young men must look upon their chiefs a§ formerly, when chiefs directed and young men obeyed Let them act as in time past When their chiefs had power, and they were temperate and wise. Let them clear out their ears, that my advice may reach their hearts. My children, you have now the subject matter before you for Which we assembled You have heard the propositions of your great father and must remember and think seriously upon them. We desire to receive your answer so soon as* you have agreed upon its terms. When you are ready you will let us know, and the flag of the United States shall be hoisted over our council house as the signal to meet each other. If in the mean time, any of you desire to say anything, we are now ready and willing to hear.

After a short pause—Mclea, a Potawattamie chief, arose and said—My fathers—On behalf of the chiefs ot my nation I will say a few words We cannot at this time say how long it will require to consult and give you an answer We shall remember your words,and so soon. as we be ready to answer them we will send you notice. This my fathers, is all can now inform you of.

After some conversation between the Commissioners and Metea respecting provisions, with which the Indians ap peared to be delighted—particularly with a promise of Gov Cass to see, that both large and small were abundantly supplied—X»e£ro, a Miami chief, addressed the vutiitriUtiuiiOf*—My fathers, we have heard your words with attention, and time is required to consider of them. Some of our people are yet absent, we expect them td arrive here soon/ We must meet and cousult together before we can give an answer, and we know you will not hurry us. When prepared answer you, we will •end you word

Gov. Cass remarked, my children, jpotawattauiies and Miamies—any reasonable time required bv you, to consult With each other and form yourjudg-

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convened—all the commissioners prea—«lso the ehiefs of the Potawattamie tad Miami nation, seated and ar•ah^ed as at the first council—

Lojr. Cass informed his Potawatami and Miami children that five days had elapsed shite the commissioners had met them in (council—that if they wefce now ready to communicite, the commissioneft wou'd hear the result of their consulfations upon the propositions he had on behalf of their great father, submitted to them'—that, if not yet ready, be had no desire td hurry them-that the business is in every point of view important, therefore they should consider it Well, ar for that purpose if necessary, more time should be allowed—he had a wish to get through the negotiation to. the mutual satisfaction of all parties, but no desire to hurry their delist on.-

Molarity—aPotawatzmi chief (lien anddressed the commissioners -Father, what you shall hear is not from me a* lone, lis the voice of the young men, peace chiefs of mj fathers

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Wrtl not be my word* as an invidual chief—I am deputed to speak tbt words of my nation $

Fatthers-—The voice of our youngwen, the voice -of our war chiefr mpd the voice of our peace chiefs, all agree with each other I will tell you their determination—they have resolved to sell no more land You have often asked us for more land. We have told yoa1 that we had no more to sell to you The thoughtless have already «old too much. We have little remaining. What we yet retain we require for our -subsistance, and we shall part with none of it Fathers, you hare

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Gor. €Ms informed the Miamies flit the commissioners were now ready to hear what they had to say —After a short pause the Miamlchief LaGroapproached the seats of the commission? rs and said,

Listen to me fathers—I will repeat many of your words, and speak the words of my nation. You called us here, you lighted your council ftre which we surrounded, and your pipe of peace which we smoked—this i* seems, notwithstandir^ your professions of friendship, you done not for our advantage, but your own—you nones" not to increase our happiness, but produce our destruction 4r misery. When we first met hen you bold us your errand, and pointed to another country as our future residency where we might expect plenty —that here our wants were pressing, our numbers decreasing and if we continued our present homes we must soon perish And why is it that we cannot as heretofore live here ?—'tis beceuve of your approach towards us—^'tis became there are so many kettles boiling whiskey around us, which your people know how to benefit by—therefore you are the cause, if we must go, or die* Many of your words fall only from your lips the conduct of your nation towards us is very different You tell us that there is game plenty in the country you wish us to occupy and that other Indians aego»'g away from their present homes to live in it.. We once had game plenty in our r.ountry. Our game did not leave us fftitil your people came amongst us.— So soon as your people touched our «oil, our game departed The great spirit gave to us a soil of the same colour of our skins— while the one remaii ed untouched and unchanged, the game remained in plenty upon the other. You came among us originally from a country where the soil is white as your own skin, and no game can be fourid upon it If asyou say there be game plenty west 0 the Mississippi we do not know the people who may require it. our red cbildrf now present, our brothers the Pota watamies, were the first to sell land to you, contrary to our wish, at the treatv of Greenville^ ^Many of us with them, have you. give to your pi esent application, the answer we have all heard We have all ears to he^r. We heard with attention all you said to us. Notwithstanding you say that you pity your red children, 1 pity them much more We area distinct people of the same colour, a&d we

re gone on until this time selling to l. Experience has how taught them to

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was instructed to say. Gov Cass inquired if any other Potawatami had any thing to aayjif not he should speak to his children we Miamies

Aubenauby again rose and replied— Fathers, I have told you all that we have now to say, andy£u need expect to hear no. more from us atvpresent

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I therefore tell you in plain terms, we doAot wish to sell. I aril poor—poor flesh and poor ia means—my children sire poor, notwithstanding I wish to sell no more land. We have bet little land remaining, and we want it all If we sell, or be obliged to sell all our land, what will become of us Our fathers told us the land we possessed, would be ours until time should hate an end. If all be sold what can we look to ?-Therefore I have 2 question* to a«k of my fathers—1st have we injured your natiea? 2d—Must weceae to exist I have farther to say, that what you have told us heretofore was true—to think much of our land, aad not to sell it to any person. Now you tell us to sell, but we cannot.

Goc. Baj| said he hoped be would satisfactorily, answer the inquiries of the bst speaker, and therefore should address hiaueif to his Miami children The talk delivered by Le Gro however ingeniously framed, would not bear the examination of impartial friendship.— The great spirit had placed the white man on this island, as Weil as tbe ted manThe changes aiuce,hevabeetteffected by tie great apirtf It was the •W the great spirit that the red (ban and his gaaie jhould diminish, and that the white man and ha power should incjrease, Tlrft is the natural result ef thiMs growing eut of tle habits of tiM red man, axtd WId not be chessed ai a fom of the WiitdS. When i^ury be done to the nation of yattrgreafriiktiier he punishes the doe* of k—at this time he complains of no recent, injury— he smokes the pipe of friendship, aad shews that bis friendship is sincere by an offering «f money and cloths which you want, for land that of no use to you But you ask -if we Wish you to perish or die. We answer with sincerity of heart, we wish you to live, to improve and to be happy To prove this we would appeal to facts. If we did not wish you to li ve why should we come here to hegociate The number of our children are as the trees of tbe forest— gr*w Uo in numbers not to be counted, and the® power a* equal to their numbets It a sense of your wm$$ and a strict adhenmee to last and benevolewl jfeelinga towards you. which have always directed fiie conduct of

*e net easily take possession of your fTiCe forfeited lerrftoey, and hold it to pay the expem^inoiavedlly your part conduct o® red brethren now our str*6« gth, and will it Is hoped, appreciaifc oar motives more justly than the propounded the q»estiona £To be concluded next week

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treaty was held

here last week, with the chiefs of the several remnants of Indian tribes resi di^ ia this country, by Oliver Forward, E q. comm sooner on the part of the IJ States, and John Gretg, Bsq. agent of the proprietors of the premp timi right ef the Indian lands in the western part ef this stata. The result h*i been, we understand, the purchase* on the part of the proprietors, of the

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stions entire, part of the Teoaweota,

and about fifteen thousand acres o( the Bufilft Creek tracts—possession

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fication of the treaty by government. Theaafe from the Buflklo Creek re»ervaticm was made from the southern part of the tract, the native* choosing tofeiiin their present location near this village. In consideration of these lands, the Indians are to recieve annuities to the amount of about 83600, exclusive of such reasonable cempenstion as may he made for improvements on some ef their reservations.

The celebrated Indian Chief, Red Jscket. opposed every proposition to part with a foot of their land by an eloquent appeal to his red brethren against the encroachment of hit white brethren on their territory. Red Jack et is now nearly TO years old, yet when called to preside in the councils of hit Nation, and |o »jyi hig on any important subject, he

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all the vigor and animation of former yearsj and his language, gesture, and very look, evinces a talent at forensic eloqence, which is not, nerhapa, celled bat by a few men in the union. He, however, so far yielded bis own opinions, as to sign the treaty.

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he Csnandaigua Repositorv gives the following account of the quantitv aud situation of the lands in question.* 'The Seneca Nation of Indians sold to the proprietors of the pre-emptive

t^kt* dciNNi of Ibeir Snirvi tinos, being 33,637 from the BuftaiOf 33,409 from the Tonaewanta, 5,120. from the Cattariagii, all of the Canea* dea,(10,i4O,)and all of the Gardo. Squacky Hill, BigTree and Canadagas Reservations, containing 1,280 •cree each. The four last situated io the county of Livingston, and contain each a portion of the Geneasee river flats. Said Indians still hold at Buffala 49,920 acres at Cattaraugus 21,760, add at Tuscarora 1,9^)—in a It 116,869 acres. The land* purchased are aaid to be of an excellent quality, and will probably be offered for sale, as soon at the necessary surveys can be made.

Dissolution.

TUB Ce-partneHhip heretoori ex* istiag aider the firm of Taylor and Davy, ia this day dissolved by mutual consent—All those having unsettled! accounts with said firm, are requested to call and settle the same immediate* ly with John Davey, who is felly author# ted to aettie the same.

WII. TAYLOR. JOHN OAVKT.

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t)AVEY EASTit Respectfully inform the public thjE tbey have entered into Copartnerahip for the purpose of carrying on the

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GILDIN G&GLAZIVQ la Terre-Uaute, in the shef recently occupied by Taylor aad Cabinet makers, on market street, two equarea North efUie Court Heuae, where Ihey have and intend keeping on bind, aa assortment qf .Chairs and Furniture of tiiebestquality, which they wQl se8 lew for can or good trade.

JOHN DAVF Y. JOSEPH EAST.

INFORMS bis friends and the pub* lie that he inteada hereafter to devote his attention exclusively to the

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Ruaiuess $ aad tenders his services to these who may have employawnt ia that Hae.

Terre Haute Oct 38,18&6 —35tf. State of Indliana, FXIIM County esi

Farke Circuit Court.

5 1 September Tfcrm A D. 182ft

Charhkm Britto*,

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1 Petition for i« Diterae,

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Defendant And now en this day

centra the complainant, by Joseph Va» Mstie Et quire, his council and filt-4 his bill and it appearing to the setistac* tion of the Court, that the deferdant ia not a resident of this state.— Orderfd that unless she be and appear here at the next ttrm of this Court, (to be hoU den on the third Mondsv in April next) and answer the complainants bill—tho matters and things therein contained will be decreed in her sbsence—and it is further ordered, that the aaid de^ fendant have notice of the pendency^ «f thes«ne,by puMication of a w»pyC| of tlis order fc rour weeks auceessively p.^ (in the Western Register a paper prlifted at Terre Haute la.) previous to tha next term ol this Court and that this

A copy, 7 ^Attest WALLICE RE A, Ok^

SOTICET

WHEREAS JOHN PIERCE hold my note for 220 which was obtained through frsod, I hereby forewarn aft persons from purchasing aaid Note as I determined not to pay the same.

HIRAM BROCKL 32 Sw.

October 191826

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Terre-Ifacte Sept. 1826. tAfcfi K6TICE. This may certify that my wife Betsey Smith, has left my bed and board without any just cause or provocation

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