Political Letters

Never let them change the truth of our innocence. We are innocent, as we have proclaimed and maintained from the time of our arrest.

Yesterday the greatest Question was decided, which ever was debated in America, and a greater perhaps, never was or will be decided among Men.

We are overwhelmed! Our hearts are sickened, our utterance is paralized, when we reflect on the condition in which we are placed.

We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.

It is quite clear that you are today the one person in the world who can prevent a war which may reduce humanity to the savage state.

I am your fellow man, but not your slave.

What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one. What treaty that the whites ever made with us have they kept? Not one.

I have been fairly successful in putting on a mask behind which I have pined for my family, alone, never rushing for the post when it comes until somebody calls out my name.

We seem to be very near the bleak choice between War and Shame. My feeling is that we shall choose Shame, and then have War thrown in a little later.

The colonies have borne every burden you have placed upon us with patience, hoping that reason and justice would prevail. But our patience is now exhausted.

We may differ in our methods, but I believe we share the same ultimate goal - the uplift and advancement of our race.