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write you again hereafter. I send you his communication and
the speech, because the time is so near in which you wish to
publish, that I thought it not expedient to wait longer.
I have read with considerable care, Mr. ELLIS' paper in the
Second Annual Report. With much that Mr. ELLIS mentions,
I was personally knowing to, and in the midst of the affairs
when they transpired. So far as my recollection serves me,
his statements may be relied upon.
There is one thing, however, that is mentioned in a note on
page 420, of the 2d Vol. Hist. CbZZs., with which I am dia-
posed to differ. It ig there stated that Dr. MORSE first origi-
nated the plan or idea of the Stockbridges removing to Green
Bay. Old METOXEN frequently told me, that over a hundred
years ago a delegation from their nation visited the Sacs and
Foxes when they resided at Green Bay; and that their grand-
ehildren (the Sacs, &c.,) invited them to come and settle down
with hhem then, and as an inducement they said they "would
give them beaver-skins for their bed."
As a choice present, the Sacs and Foxes sent their Grand-
father (a term which they apply to the Stockbridges to this
day) a large piece of red pipe-stone, as large as one man could
carry. "Ever since," said the aged RIE'POXEN, "we have kept
this in mind." He said that their league of friendship with
the Sacs and Foxes was formed when the former resided in
Canada. Ever since the chain of friendship has been kept
bright. That covenant was renewed during the Sac war of
1832. The latter heard that their Grandfather was going to
strike them (in Indian parlance), and they sent a delegation, it
seems, on purpose to know if that was the caee. They (the
Stockbridges) assured them it was not so. The covenant of
peace and friendship was then renewed, and the delegation
returned.
But, Sir, I cannot review the scenes with which I have been
conver~ant, and the whole history of the transactions of Gov-
ernment agents with the New Pork Indians, as they have