Red Jacket, March 28th, 1792

Brother Onas Governor: Open unprejudiced ears to what we have to say!  Some days since you addressed us, and what you said gave us great pleasure.  This day the Great Spirit has allowed us to meet you again in this council chamber.  We hope that your not receiving our immediate answer to your address will make no improper impression upon your mind.  We mention this lest you should suspect that your kind welcome and friendly address has not had a proper effect upon our hearts.  We assure you it is far other wise.  In your address to us the other day, in this ancient council chamber, where our forefathers have often conversed together, several things struck our attention very forcibly.  When you told us this was the place in which our forefathers often met ou peaceable terms, it gave us sensible pleasure, and more joy than we could express.  Though we have no writings like you, yet we remember often to have heard of the friendship that existed between our fathers and yours.  The picture - to which you drew our attention brought fresh to our minds the friendly conferences that used to be held between the former governors of Pennsylvania and our tribes, and showed the love which your fathers had of peace, and the friendly disposition of our people.  It is still our wish, as well as yours, to preserve peace between our tribes and you, and it would be well if the same spirit existed among the Indians at the westward, and through every part of the United States.  You particularly expressed that you were well pleased to find that we differed in disposition from the Indians westward.  Your disposition is that for which the Onas governors were remarkable.  As you love peace, so do we also; and we wish it could be extended to the most distant part of this great country.  We agreed in council, this morning, that the sentiments I have expressed should be communicated to you before the delegates of the Five Nations; and to tell you that your cordial welcome to this city, and the good sentiments contained in your address, have made a deep impression on our hearts, and given us great joy, and from the heart I tell you so.  This is all I have to say.