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Brothers, the Wyandots from the Americans, we have heard your talk, and will not listen to it.  We will not forsake the standard of our British father, nor lay down the hatchet we have raised.  I speak the sentiments of all now present, and I charge you, that you faithfully deliver our talk to the American commander, and tell him it is our wish he would send more men against us, for all that has passed between us, I do not call fighting.  We are not satisfied with the number of men he sends to contend, against us.  We want to fight in good earnest.

Brothers, the red men, who are engaged in fighting for the British king, listen!  These words are from me, Tarhe, and they are also the words of the Wyandots, Delawares, Shawnese, and Senecas.

We have, and we believe it is best for us and for our brethren.  We have no wish to be involved in a war with our father, the Long Knife, for we know by experience that we have nothing to gain by it, and we beg our father, the British, not to force us to war.

We remember, in the former war between our fathers, the British and the Long Knife, we were both defeated, and we the red men, lost our country; and you, our father, the British, made peace with the Long Knife without our knowledge, and you gave our country to him.