Joseph Brant

“Brother, we have been told that you have been talking to the people on the other side of the water, and have made a bargain with them for our lands.”

“It is a strange affair, that we should be talking of peace, when we are every day hearing of your people encroaching upon our lands.”

“My object, my country's object, is to be at peace with you. The hatchet we have now buried is deep, and the waters of the great lake, which we have thrown over it, are many.”

“When we entered into treaties with the King, our father, we were a great people, and you in your infancy, a very small people.”

“Among us, we have no prisons; we have no pompous parade of courts; we have no written laws; and yet we travel from one end of our country to the other... with less danger than a civilized traveller can walk the streets of London.”

“Cease, then, to call yourselves Christians, lest you publish to the world your hypocrisy.”

“We must be united; we must be of one mind; we must have but one heart, and one hand.”

“We are determined to be a free people. The arm of the United States is strong, but we are not frightened by it.”

“The Mohawks have on all occasions shown their zeal and loyalty to the Great King; yet they have been very badly treated by his people.”

“We are now in your hands. You are a great and powerful people. Take care, then, of the helpless.”

“You have your laws and your customs; so have we. The Great Spirit has made us all.”