In this speech these nations observe, that since the sale of the lands to the king on the Ohio,--"_Great numbers more of your people_ have come _over_ the great mountains and settled throughout this country, and we are sorry to tell you, that several quarrels have happened between your people and ours, _in which people have been killed on both sides_, and that we now see the nations round us and your people _ready to embroil in a quarrel_, which gives our nations great concern, as we, on _our_ parts, want to live in friendship with you. As you have always told us, _you have laws_ to govern your people by,--but we do not see that you have; therefore, brethren, _unless you can fall upon some method of governing your people, who live between the great mountains and the Ohio river, and who are very numerous_, it will be out of the Indians' power _to govern_ their young men; for we assure you, the black clouds begin to gather fast in this country, and _if something is not soon done_, these clouds will deprive us of seeing the sun. We desire you to _give the greatest attention_ to what we now tell you; _as it comes from our hearts_, and a desire we have to live in peace and friendship with our brethren the English, and therefore it grieves us to see some of the nations about us and your people _ready to strike each other_. We find your people are very fond of our rich land;--we see them quarrelling with each other every day about land, and burning one another's houses, so that we do not know how soon _they may come over the river Ohio_, and drive us from our villages; _nor do we see you, brothers, take any care to stop them_." This speech, from tribes of such great influence and weight upon the Ohio, conveys much useful information--It establishes the fact of the settlers _over_ the mountains being _very numerous_--It shews the entire approbation of the Indians, in respect to a colony being established on the Ohio--It pathetically complains of the King's subjects _not_ being governed, and it confirms the assertion mentioned by the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations in the eighth paragraph of their report, "That if the settlers are suffered to continue in the lawless state of anarchy and confusion, they will commit such abuses as cannot fail of involving us in quarrels and disputes with the Indians, _and thereby endanger the security of his majesty's colonies_."