GOVERNOR HARRISON AND THE TREATY 261



    During the days that were to follow there were many
loud and violent harangues; parties of warriors arrived
with presents of the British emissaries in their hands, and
saying that they had been advised never to yield another
foot of territory; at one time, on September twenty-sixth,
the Potawatomi, in open assembly, raised a shout of defi-
ance against the Miamis, poured out torrents of abuse on
the heads of their chieftains and withdrew from the
council declaring that the tomahawk was raised. Amid
all this loud jangling and savage quarreling the Governor
remained unperturbed and steady to his purpose. Not-
withstanding frequent demands, he constantly refused to
deal out any liquor except in the most meager quantities
-he restrained the Potawatomi and made them smoke
the pipe of peace with their offended allies-he met and
answered all the arguments suggested by the British
agents-and after fifteen days of constant and unremit-
ting effort won over the chiefs of the Mississinewa and
gained the day.
    The official account of the proceedings as made by
Peter Jones, secretary to the Governor, and now reposing
in the archives of the United States government, shows
that instead of attempting to make any purchase of In-
diqan lands when only a small number of representatives
of the tribes were present, that the Governor on the eigh-
teenth of September, dispatched messengers to Detroit
to summon certain Delawares and Potawatomi who were
absent; that on the same day he also directed Joseph
Barron to go to the Miami villages along the Wabash to
call in Richardville, one of the principal chiefs of that