[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] wanoes, and had succeeded, they said, in " convincing them that they had acted very foolishly and very unjustifiably," and that they had "promised and agreed" to unite with them against the " common enemy; " but at the same time had expressed the desire that they might have a hearing at Onondaga to con vince them that harmony and friendship with them was desired, in which request the embassadors united. Johnson accepted the proposition; he would hold a council at Onondaga twenty days hence, and charged the chiefs, then present with the duty of extending the invitation. About the same time an important change took place in the Lenape government. Tadame,1 their king, was treacherously murdered, but by whom is not stated, and Teedyuscung, that " lusty, raw-boned man," whose voice had already been heard in the wilderness, became his successor. Enjoying the confi dence of his people, as well as possessing great native ability, he had already become a power to be both feared and conciliated. For peace with the English he was ready, but it must be a peace which recognized the rights of his nation; to no other would he listen, and spurned alike the threats and the blandish ments of those who would influence him to a different policy. 1 We have not met with a more spe-long out lived his activity. — Minor's His-cific reference to this chief. He appears tory Wyoming • Memorials Moravian to have been the successor of Allum-Church^ i, 67.