Feeling and preference are subsequent manifestations.

I took this occasion to state to him the objects and policy of the government by the establishment at these falls of a post and agency, placing it upon its true basis, namely, the preservation of peace upon the frontiers, and the due observance, by all parties, of the laws respecting trade and intercourse with the tribes, and securing justice both to them and to our citizens, particularly by the act for the exclusion of ardent spirits from the Indian country.

By the agency, a door was opened through which they could communicate their wishes to the President, and he was also enabled to state his mind to them.

All who opened their ears truly to the voice of their American father would be included among the recipients of his favors.

He felt kindly to all, but those only who hearkened to his council would be allowed, as _he_ had been, to share in the usual privileges which the agency at this place secured to them.