Native Eloquence. any great unavoidable hill to pass be- tween Albany and.Lake Erie. It the only state, too, fexcept at the nar- row and N. E, extremity. which ex- tends across the whole width of the United States territory ; and the only spot on which the Ailantic and the Lake can be united: by sloop-navig tion. ‘This peculiar situation, with its other advantages, renders this State highly interesting to the politician, the man of business or enterprise, the emi- grant, and the traveller. With the Tatter especially, the ready and safe conveyance up the Hudson, and to Lower Canada, and the good roads and accommodations westward, will be additional inducements to visit a coun try of this description, which more- over furnishes Mineral Waters move effi medicinal Springs of Europe, and which, besides many intermediate sub- Time natural viewe and objects, cou: tains on its western confines the great- est natural curiosity in the worid, a country interspersed (exclusive of the great waters befure named) with mote than fficen lakes, from ten to forty miles in length, and numerous smaller exhibiting as great an extent, variety, and beauty of inland water feeuery as all the other States toge- ther. From the new Albany Balance. NATIVE ELOQUENCE. Ido not offer the following docu- meats to the public as confidential or State Papers,” but as important terary curiosities, The reader may rely on their genuineness : ‘The speech of Sagoua Ha, which signifies The Keeper Asvake, known by the white people by the name of Red Jacket, in answer to a spevch of Mr. Richardson, who applied to buy the Indian rights to the reservations Lying in the territory commonly called the Holland purchase. Delivered at a Council at Buffuloe Creek, in May, Isil, i ‘ious and valuable-than the best” 19 Brother—We opened our case .to the talk you lately delivered. to-us, at ‘our council fire, ' In doing important business it is best not to tell-long sto- ries, but to come to it in a few words. We therefore shali/not repeat your talk, which is fresh in our minds, We have well considered it, and the advan- tages and disadvantages of your offers. We sequest your attention to our an- swer, which is not from the speaker alone, but from all the Sachems and Chiefs now around our council fire. Brother—We know that great men as well as great uations, having di ferent interests, have different minds, and do not sce the sarhe object in the same ligitt—Lut we hope our answer will be agreeable to you and your em- ployers, Brother-Your application for, the purchase of our lands is to our minds very extraordinary ; it has been made ina crooked manners you have not. walked in the straight path pointed out by the great council of your na tion. You have no writings from your great father the President, In mak- ing up our minds we have looked back, aud reinembered how the Yorkers pur- chased our lands in former times, "They bought them piece after piece, for a little mouey paid toa few men in our nation, and uot to all our brethren, until our planting and hunting grounds have become very small, and if we sell them, we know not where to spread our blankets. Brother—You tell us your employ- ers have purchased of the council of Yorkers, a right to buy our lands. We do not understand how this can be. ‘T'he lands do not belong to the Yorkers; they are ours, aud were given to us by the Great Spisit Brother—We think it strange that you should jump over the lands of our brethren in the east, to ceme to our re so far off, to get cur lauds.—When we sold our lands in the st to the white people, we deter- mined never to sell those we kept, which Copyright © 2006 ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights reserved.