 | Roger L. Nichols - 1999 - 428 pages
...more bad news, too. Claiming that they sought peace rather than war, the Indian spokesmen announced that "our only demand is the peaceable possession of a small part of our once great country. . . . We can retreat no farther, because the country behind hardly affords food for its present inhabitants;... | |
 | Robert J. Pond - 2003 - 321 pages
...sophisticated leadership in 1793, pleaded in vain with American officials to let them remain in peace: Consider Brothers that our only demand is the peaceable...small part of our once great country. Look back and view the lands from whence we have been driven from this spot. We can retreat no further, because the... | |
 | M. G. Mateusz - 2005 - 68 pages
...the Indians' decision. As described in Treaty of Canandaigua 7794, Pickering was told: We desire you to consider Brothers, that our only demand is the...peaceable possession of a small part of our once great Country—Look back and view the lands from whence we have been driven, to this spot:—We can retreat... | |
 | Colin Gordon Calloway - 2007 - 268 pages
...have never parted with such a power." The Indians' only demand, they reminded the commissioners, was "the peaceable possession of a small part of our once great Country. Look back and view the lands from whence we have been driven to this spot, we can retreat no further, because the... | |
 | 1906 - 1054 pages
...invasions. We want peace. Restore to us our country, and we shall be enemies no longer. * * * We desire you to consider, brothers, that our only demand is the...inhabitants, and we have therefore resolved to leave our bones in this small space to which we are now confined. Notwithstanding the great insecurity of... | |
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We desire you to consider, brothers, that our only demand is the peaceable possession of a small part of our once great country. Look back, and review the lands from whence we have been driven to this spot. We can retreat no farther; because the country... 
