see the nations round us and your people _ready
to embroil in a quarrel_, which gives our nations great concern, as we,
on _our_ parts, want to live in friendship with you. As you have always
told us, _you have laws_ to govern your people by,--but we do not see
that you have; therefore, brethren, _unless you can fall upon some
method of governing your people, who live between the great mountains
and the Ohio river, and who are very numerous_, it will be out of the
Indians' power _to govern_ their young men; for we assure you, the
black clouds begin to gather fast in this country, and _if something is
not soon done_, these clouds will deprive us of seeing the sun. We
desire you to _give the greatest attention_ to what we now tell you;
_as it comes from our hearts_, and a desire we have to live in peace
and friendship with our brethren the English, and therefore it grieves
us to see some of the nations about us and your people _ready to strike
each other_. We find your people are very fond of our rich land;--we
see them quarrelling with each other every day about land, and burning
one another's houses, so that we do not know how soon _they may come
over the river Ohio_, and drive us from our villages; _nor do we see
you, brothers, take any care to stop them_."

This speech, from tribes of such great influence and weight upon the
Ohio, conveys much useful information--It establishes the fact of the
settlers _over_ the mountains being _very numerous_--It shews the
entire approbation of the Indians, in respect to a colony being
established on the Ohio--It pathetically complains of the King's
subjects _not_ being governed, and it confirms the assertion mentioned
by the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations in the eighth
paragraph of their report, "That if the settlers are suffered to
continue in the lawless state of anarchy and confusion, they will
commit such abuses as cannot fail of involving us in quarrels and
disputes with the Indians, _and thereby endanger the security of his
majesty's colonies_."

The Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations however pay no regard
to all these circumstances, but content themselves with observing, "We
see nothing to hinder the government of Virginia from extending the
laws and constitution of that colony to _such persons as may have
already settled there under legal titles_." To this we _repeat_, that
there are _no such_ persons, as have settled _under legal titles_, and
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