[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 288 THE INDIJN TRIBES thou goest I will go, and where thou lodgest I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God; where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried." The privations which the patriots suffered, they shared without a murmur; in their devotion they never wearied. When the tattered banners of the struggle were folded away, they returned to their ancient seats, and at the head waters of the Hudson again met the white men, now their brothers by a holier covenant, as they had met them in 1609, the sole representatives of the Indian tribes of Hudson's river. By the treaty of peace between the United States and Great Britain — which was without stipulation in regard to the Indian allies of the latter government — " the ancient country of the Six Nations, the residence of their ancestors from the time far beyond their earliest traditions, was included within the bound aries granted to the Americans." Nor was this their only loss; in their social and political condition they had been great sufferers by their unfortunate alliance. The great body of the Oneldas and Tuscaroras had been severed from the confederacy; the " eastern door " of their cc Long House " had been broken