been thought best, this insulting ambassador would have been put out of the house as a common brawler and disturber; but Mr. Hallett forbore to have any controversy with him.  He afterwards met the Indians in their School-houses, and delivered two addresses without interruption from the emissaries of Mr. Fish.  This is a sample of the way the Indians have been treated about their own Meeting-house.  In some of the old petitions, the Indians speak of this Meeting-house as our Meeting-house, and it was built for them, without a dollar from the white men of this country, except when the Legislature, at the petition of the Indians, repaired it in 1816.  And now, no Indian can go inside of it, but by the permission of Mr. Fish, whom they will not hear preach.

It seems that the Indians are not to have the benefit of any thing given to them.  It must all go to the whites.  The whites have our Meeting-house, and make Marshpee pay about one-third the support of a minister they will not hear preach.  The other two-thirds comes from a fund.  In 1711, a pious man named Williams, died in England, and in his will he said, “I give the remainder of my estate to be paid yearly to the College of Cambridge, in New England, or to such as are usually employed to manage the blessed work of converting the poor Indians there, to promote which, I design this part of my gift.”

This was the trust of a dying man, given to Harvard College, that great and honorable Literary Institution.  And how do they fulfil the solemn trust?  They have been and still are paying about five hundred dollars a year to a missionary for preaching to the whites.  This missionary, by his own statement, [see Mr. Hallett’s argument,] shows he has added to his church twenty members from the tribe of over three hundred persons, in twenty-two years.  Is not this more expensive in proportion to the good done, than any heathen mission on record?  Mr. Fish has now been preaching in Marshpee twenty-four years.  In that time he has received from the Williams fund, given solely to convert the poor Indians, about five hundred dollars a year, as nigh as can be ascertained, which is TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLARS for persuading twenty colored persons to join his church.  This is six hundred dollars for every member added to his church, and if his other pay is added, it amounts to nine hundred dollars for each member.

Besides this, Mr. Fish has derived an income, we think not much, if any, short of two hundred and fifty dollars a year, from the wood-land, pasturage, marshes, Meeting-house, house lot, &c. which he has wrongfully held and used of the property of the Indians.  Add this to his pay from Harvard College, and he has had EIGHTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS, of money that belonged to the Indians, and which, if it had been laid up for a fund, would have supplied missionaries for all the Indians in New England, according to the will of the pious Mr. Williams.