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PEP.775.080
26 Dec 1775:5952 (1/145)
Extract of a Letter from General Schuyler, dated Albany, Dec
14.-- Republished to perpetuate the humanity of the
Ministers of George the Third and their agents.
The Indians delivered us a speech on the 12th, in which they
related the substance of all the conferences Colonel Johnson
had with them the last summer, concluding with that at
Montreal, where he delivered to each of the Canadian Tribes
a War belt and a Hatchet, who accepted it: after which they
were invited to feast on a Bostonian and drink his blood.
An ox being roasted for the purpose and a pipe of wine given
to drink, the War Song was sung.-- One of the Chiefs of the
Six Nations, that attended at the conference, accepted a
very large black War Belt, with a hatchet depictured on it;
but would neither eat, nor drink, nor sing the War Song.
This famous belt they have now delivered up, and we have now
a full proof that the Ministerial servants have attempted to
engage the savages against us.
Published by order of Congress, Charles Thomson, Secretary.
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