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reducing Hayne four with 23 or 30 men to accompany him, inanding at Fort Hawkins to keep Cap- this outrageous murder, and I have ¦ sisting General Gaines in with three or thousand having Tennesseans a movement for having been authorized to do so by the tain Wright in close confinement, un- ordered him to be arrested and to be 1 Amelia Island. That object made [the security pietended SHIPP'S ORATION Governor. The order was complied til the will of the President be known. confined in iron until the pleasure of 1 been accomnlished before our militia of the assailed AT the field, General Gaines, | points of Georgia, and did pursue MR. with. Captain Bothwell told him that “The accompanying letters, for the the President of the United States is had taken I not as soon as their was me until satisfied of the perfect secur- 1 he could not accompany him, disap- Secretary of War and Governor of known upon the subject, if he has organization completed, right ity of that frontier. proved the plan and informed Captain Georgia, you will take charge of until left Hartford before my order reaches assumed the to order him, them to frontier without “Whilst you , Wright, that there could be no doub* you reach a postotfice.” I call upon you as Governor of the ever con- are so tenacious os CHEHAW Georgia sulting authority on ; your own executive powers, it may ELOQUENT ONE aid in carrying into effect the state the sub-j be of the friendship of the Indians in that “ANDREW JACKSON.” to my order ject. Captain Wright at that time be- necessary to explain to you upon what qaurter; and stated, that, Oponne had At the same time Jackson wrote the for his arrest and confine- ment, ing debility failed to authority Captain Wright received in- brought in a public horse that had been following letter to the Chehaw war- which I trust will be afforded in a state of Continued from Page One Captain Wright brought con- and, course, not muster- structions to call for lost that day. This availed nothing; riors at his command: and to march of was a re-inforcement Early, mock patrotism burned in their dign punishment for this unparelleled ed into the service of the United[ from Fort garrisoned by mi- General Jackson's Talk to the Chehaw litia who you will deny breasts; they crossed the river that murder. It is strange that this hero States. He however followed on to not were at who wanted the lanl the community in "which you reside, WAHRIOKS. had Hartford, where, finding himself not the time in the service of the United frontiersman 1 night and pushed for the town. When not followed the trail of the mur- “To the chiefs and warriors of the of States, and under my command. mdians possessed. and cause your children to rise up arrived there, an Indian was discov- derers of your citizens, it would have likely to be received in the service Chehaw village, on my march to the Muscogulgees which embraced and call you ered grazing cattle, he made led to Miekasusky; where we found the United States, tendered his ser- ANDREW JACKSON. blessed. We are asembl- some was West by the Appalachieola, May 7th, r the bleeding scalps of your citizens, vices to command the contemplated Governor Rabun again wrote: r vu haws were of the noblest type ed on this occasion at your call to prisoner. I w as informed by Sergeant 1818. but there might have been dang- expedition; which were accordingly Governor Rabun to Andrew Jackson’ . man on earth. He rec- mark the spot that will be told in Jones that the Indian immediately pro- more t a h.atthen “Friends and Brothers:—l have this accepted. Having Department, , great spirit and the immor- song and story where posed to go with the interpreter, and ed in this than attacking a village con- violated his orders Executive Ga. d a the ancient moment by express the* in- quick received, taining a few superannuated women by destroying the Chehaw village, in- Milledgeville, . of the soul; lie had a in- Chehaws fell. The sickening details bring some of the chiefs for the cap- telligence of the unwarrantable at- protection. Hopoonees and Philemmies, September Ist, 1818. thought clearly; he was of this history I would if duty did tain to talk It was not attended without arms or This act stead of ,. , rI and with. tack of party of Georgians the not a on will to the last age fix a stain upon towns against which the expedition Sir: I have lately had the honor j and fearless and true to his forbid gladly pass over. Its hor- to. An advance w'as ordered, the cav- rave Chehaw village, burning it and killing the character of Georgia. was directed, I had, previous to re- to receive yours of the Ist. ultimo.. faith until betrayed. “These rors are enough to wake a fever in alry rushed forward and commenced " 11-iited six men and one woman. ordering I had supposed that correspond- woods, the of age. to Even after the firing and I have the honor, etc., ceiving your demand his ar- our !. ' the this race without blood massacre. ~K of “Friends and Brothers, the above rest, ordered to be arrested, but ence on this subject, had finally ter- ’ their and In murder commenced, Major How'ard ANDREW JACKSON. him loved children 1818 Florida under the Spanish my and news fills heart with regret To which letter Governor Rabuu before he was apprehended agreeably minated, but a renewal on your part it a great joy to die with and rule was a sore spot, was theatre who furnished you with corn came counted the my eyes with tears. When I passed wrote in hot reply a characteristic to my orders, he was taken by your has induced me to make this short re- people. of every species of lawless out of his house with a white flag in for their adventure. through your village you treated mi letter as agent, and afterward liberated by the ply. boast of Che- front of the line. It w'as not respect- follows: It was the proud the Criminals, pirates, smugglers found friendship, and my ed. with furnished Rabun to civil authority. I have since had him I find that the same angry disposi- they were the white mans here a refuge and starting point. An order w'as given for a general “Governor General Jack- haws that a army with all the supplies you could arrested and confined and shall com- tion (no doubt) cared for him, treated The fire and nearly 400 guns w'ere dis- son: which dictated your they troublesome Seminoles of the spare and your old chiefs sent friends— charged their “Milledgeville, Georgia, 1, municate the whole transaction to the letter of the 7th of Mav> last is still kindly, supplied him with needed South instigated by designing at him before one took effect June 1818. him bad young warriors with me to fight and president of the States, to- rankling in your battles, protected men —he fell and was bayonetted—his son “Sir:—l have lately had the honor United breast. stores, fought his made frequent incursions on our put down our common enemy. I prom- gether with letters. was to receive from you of the first ulti- a copy of your It is veiy certain that I have never Maroons and bad Spaniards Southern border, and General An- also killed. These are the cir- him from ised you protection; I promised you I have the honor to be yours, etc., intentionally your Generously they cumstances relative to the transac- mo founded on a communication from assailed feelings, or of divided drew' Jackson was ordered to subdue the protection fostering friend- Florida. and General Glasscock, relative the WILLIAM RABUN. wantonly’ provoked your frowns, and with the whites, but for them. Fort Scott in the tion—Seven men were killed, one wo-! to at- •theii lands Southern part | ship of the United States, so long as To which Jackson wrote: I flatter myself it is equally suffered from man and two children. then tack recently made on the Chehaw vil- certain these the Chehaws of Georgia was starving because of Since j you continue to your father, the General all i hold lage. Had you, sir, General Glass- Jackson to Governor Rabun: that I shall never find it necessary to faith, and the of three of my command who were left at I or our neglect and violated failure army contractors to president of the United States, by the Nashville, Tennessee, frowns. Fort Scott furlough, and 1 cock been in possession of the facts court your "Your are not dis- acts of the greedy pioneers supply provisions. On 22nd of Janu- obtained a friendship. \vanton 1 hand of produced the August 1, 1818. last vestiage of ary, on their way one of them was shot, which affair, it is to be who coveted their 1818, with his two thousand pick- “Friends and Brothes, I did not sup- Sir: Your letter of the first of Page in endeavoring to obtain presumed at least, that you would not June continued from 4) Their means of subsistence ed soldiers Jackson was at Fort a canoe co pose there was land. Haw- an American so base have indulged in a strain was not received until this day though year upon cross the Flint. I sent on an so inde?or- ,„ar v,v were encroached kins, now Macon, Ga. Two days have as respect flag, to not a but I find I and unbecoming. a gasconading notice of such a com- was march express to the officer commanding Ft. cus I had on the 21 for which no compensation ever brought him to Hartford, the am mistaken. I find that Captain munication having been written ap- Scott apprising him of the and of March last, stated the situation of The whites maintained and county seat of Pulaski county. Contin- affair, AVright Georgia has done it. I peared long Georgia returned. Adjutant of can our bleeding you, since in the jour- rights one Porter, to put him on frontier to and re- demanded more than their uing his march Southw'ard to Fort not bring your old men and women to nals. I am not disposed to enter in- his guard. On arividg opposite Che- ouested you in respectful terms to de- without fulfilling their obligation to Scott he passed the friendly village of life, but I have written to your father, to a controversy with you relative to haw', I sent a runner to get some of tach a part of your overwhelming the red man. He possessed no rights Chehaw. Here his tired and hungry the President of the United States, our respective duties, but would rec- them in, and in doing so. force for our protection, or that you - succeeded that the white man felt himself bound troops were received with hearty w'el the whole circumstance of your case, ommend an examination of the laws They were at a loss to know the cause would furnish supplies, and I would For to respect. It is to our unspeakable come, and supplied with corn and pro- and I have ordered Captain Wright to of country you of displeasure order out more troops which you have our before hazard an that our they the of the white peo- disgrace as a nation treat- visions for themselves, and were be arrested and put in irons, until deigned opinion on the subject. “The liber- ple. Wolf has gone to th'e agent to never yet to reply. Y’ou state ies and covenants with him were thus enabled to continue their journey your father, the Presidentof the Unit- ties of the people prostrated at the have it inquired into. We obtained in a very haughty tone that ‘I, as Gov- never fulfilled and our Government to Fort Scott. Every man in the vil- ed States, makes known his will on feet of the military despotism” are from them sufficient quantity of beef ernor of your state within your milit- Steam has ever treated him with fraud and lage that w'as fit for service joined this distressing subject. can’t expressions for political pur- to last us to Hartford, at which place ary division, have no right to give a falsehood. We have invariably ex- the army, leaving only the decrepit old “Friends and Brothers, return t o poses. The better part of the com- 1 was informed there is a plentiful military order whilst you are in the acted full justice from while exhibit- men, the women and children and your village, there you shall be pro- munity know too well that they have supply of provisions.. I have the hon- field.’ Wretched and contemptable in- ing none towards hint. The black- sick. These Indians who joined the tected, and Captain Wright will be nothing to apprehend from that quar- or to be very respectfully, deed, must be our situation if that be est spot on the escutcheon of the Am- whites were but the forerunners of a tried and punished for this daring ter. The military have rights secur- Pressing or Your friend and obedient servant, the fact. When the liberties of the erican Government as well as on our mighty host of friendly Creeks—a bri- outrage of the treaty and murder of ed to them by the laws of our count- (Signed) THOMAS GLASSCOCK. people of Georgia shall have prostrat- state is our bitter cruel treat- gade of men two thousand strong- your people, you shall also be paid try as well as the civil, and in my re- -own The aged chief Major Howard who ed at the feet of Military despotism—- ment of Indian. Our procedure, under their chief Mclntosh, who were for your houses and other property spect for those of the latter I will the r was so barbrously massacred was an then and not till then, will this impe- sought to be car- , marching to join General Jackson in that has been destroyed but you must never permit tlhose of the former to with him was never uncle of the General rious doctrine be tamely submitted to. country. brave Mclntosh. not attempt take outraged impunity. Dry lied out with truth and uprightness j the low'er Mclntbsh was a to satisfaction your- may be with Mclntosh wrote to General Johnson: You rest assured that if the sav- conduct was such that both half breed and a relative of Governor selves. This is contrary to the treaty, ages depredations Your letter of twenty-first of and our “My friend:—When I returned to my continue their on the and were Troup. He it w'as w'ho had command and you may rely on my friendship, on you and the journal- his judgment conscience town, I heard with regret that my cur unprotected frontier, I shall think March which in his of the friendly Indians at the battle of and that of your father, the President ist dwell force, you bound to condemn and awaken uncle Howard and family had been and act for myself in that respect. with so much most direful distrust the Horseshoe six years before. He of the United States. must have been aware could not heart only the murdered, and that town “You demand that Captain Wright have Cleaning a brigadrer general their was “I send you this by my Mr. and provoke a desperate revenge for was now in ser- destroyed. friends be delivered in irons to your agent, readhed me in time to produce the ob- If an Indian kills a white jor betrayal his reposed confidence. vice of the United States. The Che- Davis who is accompanied by a Major ' ject required. The situation on our the of man, I will have him punished. If a Davis. • If you, sir, are unac- warriors under Jackson in Flor- lew of my people, and who charged bleeding frontier that How with melancholy we read of haw' man is quainted with the fact, I beg leave to at period was white kills an Indian he ought to the arrest the of and how—- ida did valiant service for the United with and confinement of inform you that Captain Wright magnified by the apprehension of a partition Poland be punished. I wish you to find out was Phone 713 “ Captain Wright. Treat them Hope a bade world fare- States. Chehaw thus left defenseless friendly, your command, few frontier settlers, and those who for time the who has done this murder and let me not under for he had was the scene of a horribly blunder- they are your friends, you must not had not understanding enough to pen- well know what those Indians have done been appointed an officer in the Chat- ing outrage of the most shocking permit any of your people to kill any etrate into the designs of my opera- And freedom shrieked when Kosciusko that made the white man kill our peo- ham county militia which had been of which make of the whites. They will bring down forgot that fell.” character, the details ple.” drafted for the special purpose of as- tions. You have Colonel Obed on you destruction. shall be And again how we love to repeat: the blood run cold. Captain Justice information Little Prince, another popular chief done to you. You must remain in “Oh bloodiest picture in the book Wright misled by false of the Creeks, wrote a curious letter peace friendship of time, attacked the village destroying some of and with the United on the subject to his agent, General States. The that Captain Sarmatia fell unwept, without a these friendly Indians and burning excuse fairly Mitchell: Wright for this crime.” all their houses. A full account has made attack on letter “My great friend:—l have now got your village is that some of your peo- These pictures of oppression from of this massacre is given in a by General Thomas Glasscock of the a talk to send to you. One of our ple were concerned in some murders the well preserved history of the old . Spend friendly towns by the Georgia. Americus Georgia to General Jackson. the name of Che- on frontier of This will world are heartrending, but nothing to Militia »*»**»*»**?************' haw has been destroyed. white not excuse him. I ordered Cap- ¦?•ft* be cam pared to the treatment that Fort Early, April 30, 1818. The have people came and killed some of the tain Wright and all the officers con- Georgia gave to the Chehaw Indians. Sir:—l have the pleasure to inform | head men, and five men and a woman, cerned in this transaction in confine- The historian passes unnoticed this you, that my command has safely and burnt all their homes. All our ment, if found at Hartford. If you Uackest crime in a state’s history. ieached this place having suffered ' young men gone to war with your people with Major Money have send some of Americus the want of meat. The in for There are few' only who love the nak- some little >*»»**»»*»****,, *** ***»** GeneralJ Jackson, and there are only Davis, you will see them put in irons. ftft*ftftftft***ftftftftftfti»i»ftftftftftftft**»*»ftftftft»ft»*»»*» M ed truth that irritates and pleases Gods have proved equally propitious a few left to guard the town and Let me hear from you at Fort Mont- not. If it had not been that you, no- to us, on our return as on our ad- they have come and served us this gomery. I am your friend and broth- ble ladies of the Council of Safety of vance at Mickasuky. Some of my men dollars sent way. As you are a friend and a er. “ANDREW JACKSON.” thousand Daughters of Revolution were nearly out of corn, and search- American father, I hope you will try and find Also to Governor Rabun, he wrote: now spot ing some old houses that had who mark this and dedicate about out Every and get us satisfaction for it. You Sir:—l have this moment received it to the truth and love of history, it not been consumed, to see If they Americus to catalogue* houses may depend upon it that all our young by express the letter of General Glass- away from too would soon pass from the memory could make any discovery, in entering men1 have gone to war but a few that cock (a copy of which is enclosed) of men, and like the baseless fabric one of them, to their great astonish- j are left to guard the town. Men do detailing the base, cowardly and in- day or of a vision leave no trace or wreck ment and surprise, they came across ‘ or through traveling men, who live a Captain not get up and do this mischief with- human attack on the old men and wo- behind. These old Indian graves, man who was lost from the out| there is some one at the head of men of the Chehaw village, while the these mammoth trees where the dusky Watkin’s company, on the 2nd of it, and we want you to try and find warriors of that village were with me suits, shirts, maiden played and the red April. It appears from his statement, two in your city, taking orders for warriors themj out.” fighting the battles of our country wooed and won would ere long be (hat he was taken with a kind of The anger of General Jackson blaz- * against the common enemy, and at a forgotten. You are engaged in the cramp, and was unable to move and ed up when this horrible massacre time, too, when undoubted testimony any kind, is a thousand highest, noblest duty of collecting, became senseless. When he recovet- 1 1 shoes, or apparel of bewildered, was made known to him. Jackson • had been obtained and was in my pos- marking and perpetuating the true ed he became completely camp; he was a terrible enemy as well as a 1 session and possession of General history of Chehaw and our Southland. and never could reach the strenuous friend. His indignation w Glascock of their innocence of the to Americus, and means This duty concluded it was prudent to h r as 1 dollars absolutely lost falls heaviest upon you w'ho therefore charge killing Leigh and the other rpsiinnsihiliHcs swamp, in this instance most righteous and 1 of fee!feel its responsibilities and appreci-nnnreci- secrete himself in some and natural. instantly dispatched a Georgians at Cedar Creek. ate wandering some time came He its noble worth on the character after about That a the State should spender is keeping corn, which he posse to arest Captain Obed Wright Governor of when summed up that the and education of our youths. This across a parcel of on convey him in irons to Fort Haw- assume the right to make war against work him; he was and will be as interesting and agree- subsisted until we found an tribe, perfect peace apparently kins. The following letter of Jackson Indian in with able to your trained minds as it will i very much reduced and I a is self-explanatory: and under the protection of the United away from Americus one citizen. yourselves, and to your wild. On that night Gray struck honorable to Major States, is assuming a responsibility it a mile and half General Jackson to Davis: learned select and patriotic society, 1 trail, pursued about you which for- Headquarters Division of the that I trust will be able to excuse fly so doing you give posterity the ' to a small hut, employ to and came South: to the Government of the United Loyalty to local merchants who greatest 50 or 60 bushels of blessing, and vindicate the tunately contained States, to which you will have to peas, which May 7th, 1818. truths of history, the effects of which corn, some potatoes and ahswer, through which I have Flint, opposite “Sir:—You will send or deliver per- and "ill you yours and dif- us to reach the light and water bills, return to and enabled sonally, you may deem most ad- recently passed, promising the aged labor, pay rent, license, village; when arriving within as fuse forever around you a hallowing Chehaw that remained at home my protection place, sent on Ma- visable, the enclosed talk to Kanard, fragrance like the beautiful magnolia thirty miles of the and taking the warriors with me in detachment of 20 with instructions to explain the sub- to others, is a civic trees of this forest growing on the jor Robinson with a the campaign, is as unacountable as thereby giving employment On his arriving stance to the Chehaw warriors. ruins of the once popular Chehaw men to procure beef. it is strange. But it is still more fled In every di- “You will proceed thence to Hart- town. This learning which you seek there the Indians had strange that there exist within having ford, and use your endeavors to ar- could residing *o dispense beautify adorn The Chehaw town duty. Every man and woman in will and rection. rest and deliver in Irons, to the Mil- the United States a cowardly monster consumed about fourdays before been itary authority at Fort Hawkins Cap- in human shape that could violate the of men consisting of 2.>0 by a party tain Wright, of the Georgia Militia, sancity of a flag when, borne by any a Captain Wright, now in com- Americus should under who has been guilty of the outrage person, and more particularly when i mand of Hartford. of a superannuated t gainst the woman and superannuat- in the hands after he assumed the age. It appears that ed men of the Chehaw village. Should Indian chief worn down with Such place, he obtained Grape-Nuts command of that Wright have left Hartford, you will base cowardice as murderous conduct of several men on the he certificates call upon the Governor of Georgia to as this transaction affords has not its Spend Americus 1 1 Indians were 1 frontier, that the Chehaw aid you in his arrest. parrellel in history, and shall meet and cream on the lbg engaged in a skirmish to execute abova , with its merited punishment. for breakfast 1 to “To enable you the immediately sent or went sir, Governor with- Bend. He jou are authorized to take a company You as of a state received orders io the Governor, and you of the Tennesseans that in my military division have no right Comfort and Energy Filemme and with destroy the towns of hence lately for Fort Scott, to give a military order whilst I am cavalrv went from Money Americus of in companies . field, and this being an open for busy day Ononee.6 Two and await if you think it necessary in the a 1 out an-) wert, immediately 0.-d.rrt , of the Georgians now on and violent infringement of the treaty command, and on the the arrival i !, laced under his march under Major Porter. with the Creek Indians Captain Wright “There’s a Reason’’ place. He order- 22nd he reached this “You will direct the ofllcer com- . must beprosecuted and punished for furnish him ed Captain Bothwell to