tribe to tribe and feel after their wise men and ordain presidents & set their own wise men up as councillors and their will be white men also whom you can pick up and leave them to preside. The time I believe has come when we must go and organize them and leave a council with them, plant the seed, and put in the leaven that the whole lump may be leavened. And if the enemies do not let us alone we will call out these men of the forest and they had better let us alone. I am not much of a man to fight, but I will take every advantage that lays in my power. We will set an old squaws blanket on a kite tail and send it up and if the mob dont run I dont guess right. I will write on the blanket “liberty” and they will be sure to flee I never saw more friendly fellows than these red men and they are the men with whom I want to cultivate a spirit of friendship. I expect the enemies will not let us alone. [p. [52]]