SR_SS_Continental_Congress_Records_Cherokee_1776_002

family quarrel, in which it will be foolish, & impolite for you to interfere,
We are from beyond the great Water, that counsellors are coming over to
settle this dispute with us - Suppose an Accomodation should take
place and any other nation should in the meantime have taken an
Active part on either side - What left could you expect, than that both
parties would join in exterminating such nation from the face of the
Earth, besides you well know that these Red Coats can neither fight nor
run in the woods - you cannot pass thro' our Country to join them, neither
can they to you - for all these reasons and many others which might be
added, We conjure you, as you love yourselves, your Wibes and Children,
not to interfere - The thirteen great Colonies of this Continent which estends
almost from the rising to the seting of the sun, are now all so firmly united
and inseperably bound together by one great chain of friendship that a
wound received by one will most assuredly draw down the vengeance of the
whole on any nation either white or Red that shall strike the blow - The
British Troops have made many attempts to lands on various parts of
our Coast, but have been as often repulsed with so great loss to them and so
little to us that 'tis to be presumed the great man above is on our side.

We have lately received accounts that our people have beaten ten
thousand of the Red Coats and driven them from their forts at Boston - their
ships also are gone, we know not whither. We have in the same paper an
account that Quebec is taken, which compleats the Conquest of Canada, We
have all that extensive Country, with the Six nations and other Northern Indians As...

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