4. [Speech of Stephen S. Smith, Chief of the Six Nations.]
5. [Appendices, containing speeches of Cornplanter, and address of Washington to Cornplanter.]
6. [Statement of the present condition of the Six Nations.]
[REPORT OF HON. S. P. JOHNSON.]
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania:
At the last session of the Legislature a joint resolution was passed by your honorable bodies, appropriating five hundred dollars, for the erection of a monument to the memory of Cornplanter, an Indian Chief of the Seneca tribe, whose remains were deposited at Jennesadaga, where he had resided, in the county of Warren. By said resolution, I was appointed to superintend the execution of this generous purpose.
This duty might have been committed to more competent, but not more willing hands. My personal relations with the venerated chieftain in his life-time, had left a vivid recollection of his virtues that the abrasion of more than thirty years could not obliterate.
In discharge of the duty thus imposed, I procured a monument of marble, to be erected by Mr. W. H. Fullerton, of South Dorset, Vermont. In size, design and workmanship, it more than met my expectation, and was very creditable to the artificer. The monument itself, of beautiful Vermont marble, is over eleven feet high, and stands on a handsomely cut native stone base, four feet in diameter, by one and a-half feet deep. It is located immediately between the grave of Cornplanter, and that of his wife, from whom he was separated by death but about three months. On the second section are four well carved dies, in the form of a shield. Upon the spire facing west, is cut in large raised letters: