Excerpt: ...cover up the council fire." CHAPTER XII. Interview between Farmer's Brother and Thomas Morris-Mr. Morris addresses the women-Distributes presents-Negotiations continued-Treaty concluded with the women and warriors-Manner of payment-Inquiries about a Bank- Their reservations-White woman-Young King's dissent-Charge of insincerity. The Indians appeared to regard the breaking up of the council at Big Tree, with great satisfaction. Their joy was unbounded; they made the forest ring with their wild yells, inveighing ...
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Excerpt: ...cover up the council fire." CHAPTER XII. Interview between Farmer's Brother and Thomas Morris-Mr. Morris addresses the women-Distributes presents-Negotiations continued-Treaty concluded with the women and warriors-Manner of payment-Inquiries about a Bank- Their reservations-White woman-Young King's dissent-Charge of insincerity. The Indians appeared to regard the breaking up of the council at Big Tree, with great satisfaction. Their joy was unbounded; they made the forest ring with their wild yells, inveighing loudly and insultingly against Mr. Morris, and the commissioners, and assuming such menacing attitudes, as fairly to intimidate those unaccustomed to their rude manners. To all present but Mr. Morris, the prospect of accomplishing any thing after this seemed utterly hopeless, and it was with some difficulty the commissioners were persuaded to remain, for the purpose of giving him the opportunity of another trial. Yet his hopes of success were so sanguine, as to induce them to tarry a short time longer. The day after the breaking up of the council, Farmer's Brother called on Mr. Morris, expressed his regret at what had transpired, and the hope that it might not destroy the interest he had manifested for his nation. "Certainly not," said Mr. Morris, -"you had a right to refuse to sell your lands;" but he added, the treatment he had received from his people at the close of the council, especially in allowing a drunken warrior to menace and insult him; while they were yelling in approbation of his conduct, was uncalled for, and ungenerous. He had not deserved this from them. They had for years had food at his house in Canandaigua, and liquor as much as was for their good, and whenever any of them had been at Philadelphia, his father had treated them with equal kindness and hospitality. Farmer's Brother acknowledged that all this was true, and regretted that the council fire had been extinguished so hastily, or they might have...
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