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Canada, and even from the north of Georgian Bay.
You are from your homes, your wives, and your chil-
dren. \Ve might regret this, were it not for the circum-
stances that require you here.

“Fellow Chiefs and Brothers, I have pondered with
deep solicitude, our present condition; and the future
welfare of our children, as well as of ourselves. I have
studied deeply and anxiously, in order to arrive at a
true knowledge of the proper course to be pursued to
secure to us and to our descendants, and even to others
around us, the greatest amount of peace, health, happi-
ness, and usefulness. The interests of the Ojebwas and
the Ottawas are near and dear to my heart ; for them,
I have passed many sleepless nights, and have often
suffered from an agitated mind. These nations, I am
proud to say, are my brothers ; many of them, are bone
of my bone, and for them, if needs be, I could willingly,
nay, cheerfully, sacrifice any thing. Brothers, you see
my heart. [Here the speaker held out a piece of white
paper, emblematical of a pure heart.]

“ Fellow Chiefs and VVarriors! I have looked over
your wigwams throughout Canada, and have arrived at
the conclusion, that you are in a warm place; your
neighbors, the whites, are kindling fires all around you
[that is, clearing the lands.] One purpose for which
you have been called together, is to devise some plan
by which we can live together, and become a happy
people, so that our dying fires may not go out [our
nation may not become eXtinct,] but may be kindled in
one place, which will prove a blessing to our children.

“Brothers! Some of you are living on small parcels
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