“About eleven days ago we had a council, at which the tribe of Wyandots, (the elder brother of the red people) spoke and said God had kindled a fire and all sat around it.  In this council we talked over the treaties with the French and the Americans.  The Wyandot said, the French formerly marked a line along the Alleghany mountains, southerly, to Charleston, (S.C.) No man was to pass it from either side.  When the Americans came to settle over the line, the English told the Indians to unite and drive off the French, until the war came on between the British and the Americans, when it was told them that king George, by his officers, directed them to unite and drive the Americans back.

“After the treaty of peace between the English and Americans, the summer before Wayne’s army came out, the English held a council with the Indians, and told them if they would turn out and unite as one man, they might surround the Americans like deer in a ring of fire and destroy them all.  The Wyandot spoke further in the council.  We see, said he, there is like to be war between the English and our white brethren, the Americans.  Let us unite and consider the sufferings we have undergone, from interfering in the wars of the English.  They have often promised to help us, and at last, when we could not withstand the army that came against us, and went to the English fort for refuge, the English told us, ’I cannot let you in; you are painted too much, my children.’  It was then we saw the British dealt treacherously with us.  We now see them going to war again.  We do not know what they are going to fight for.  Let us, my brethren, not interfere, was the speech of the Wyandot.

“Further, the Wyandot said, I speak to you, my little brother, the Shawanoes at Greenville, and to you, our little brothers all around.  You appear to be at Greenville to serve the Supreme Ruler of the universe.  Now send forth your speeches to all our brethren far around us, and let us unite to seek for that which shall be for our eternal welfare, and unite ourselves in a band of perpetual brotherhood.  These, brethren, are the sentiments of all the men who sit around you:  they all adhere to what the elder brother, the Wyandot, has said, and these are their sentiments.  It is not that they are afraid of their white brethren, but that they desire peace and harmony, and not that their white brethren could put them to great necessity, for their former arms were bows and arrows, by which they got their living.”

The commissioners made some explanations in reply, when they were told that the Prophet would assign the reasons why the Indians had settled at Greenville.  “He then proceeded to inform us,” says the report, “that about three years since, he became convinced of the error of his ways, and that he would be destroyed from the face of the earth, if he did not amend them; that it was soon after made known to him what he should do to be right; that from