[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] friendship was then made, and the war dance celebrated. Still Johnson was not altogether satisfied that his work was well done. He knew that the Lenapes^ and their allies, aspired to if they did not possess the independence which they claimed, and that so long as this was denied, peace would not be possible. The necessities of the English were great,1 the determination of the Lenapes and their allies undisguised. Selfishness became the ally of justice — the diplomacy of Teedyuscung secured the triumph of his people. In the watches of the night Johnson meditated, and on the morning of the 1 2th of July, after con sultation with the sachems of the Six Nations, declared to the Lenape king, and the representatives of the Shawanoes and Mabicans, that, in consideration of the promise they had made, and in full confidence of their future suitable behavior, they were " hereafter to be considered as men," by all their brethren the English, u and no longer as women," and expressed the hope that the Six Nations would follow his example and remove the "invidious distinction."2 Decking the chiefs with medals, and the kings with silver gorgets, he covered the em bers of the council-fire, and sent from his presence a rehabi litated race. 1 The good consequences that will Shawanese that are settled on the Ohio attend the accommodating of this un-from the French interest. I doubt their happy breach are great.