“Brothers. We want the President to know that we are for peace, and that we only ask the possession of our rights. True, we are small in number, but we only ask for justice. We want to be allowed to live on our land in peace. We love Tonewanda [sic[. We have no wish to leave it. It is the residue of the land of our fathers. Here we wish to lay our bones in peace.”
“To the members of the Committees on Indian concerns for the Religious Society of Friends about to meet at Farmington,” May 1840) reprinted in
The Case of the Seneca Indians in the State of New York (Philadelphia, 1840), 42-43. (https://archive.org/details/caseofsenecaindi00join).
