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Anti Slavery Bugle
New Lisbon, Salem, Columbiana County, Ohio
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At a Seneca Nation council near Buffalo last week, chiefs debated removal across the Mississippi, complaining of broken promises to Iroquois migrants at Green Bay. Speaker John Mitten voiced distrust in whites, likening them to murderers of Jesus.
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Near Buffalo
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Last Week
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At the great council of the Seneca Nation, held last week near Buffalo, the subject of removing these Indians across the Mississippi being under discussion, several chiefs insisted that the whites had not kept to the terms they promised to the bands of Iroquois, which had already migrated to Green Bay. One Indian speaker, John Mitten, said that he wished to remain near the graves of his red fathers, till the Great Spirit called him home; that he had not confidence in his white fathers; why should he have? His white fathers had murdered their Savior, and what kind of treatment could a poor Indian expect from men who had killed the son of God?