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You tell uS that our nation cart have goods
cheaper from Mr. Panton, of Pensacola,
than from any body else, or from any other
country. Mr. Fanton may have this in his
power ; but ten years experience hath con
vinced every white and red man in this
nation, that if he has the power of so do
ing that'he wants the inclination to fell
cheap, or to favor us or our country. For
which rcafon we advise our hunters and
traders to trade where and with whoever
will serve them the bed—Weare a free
peoplei an& go where we, chafe With
our trade. . .. -
You neXj, tell ds that there are a great
many veffds and people coming down the
Miffiffppi to make war oh yotir king’#
country—That these people are without
breeches, and are Frenchmen. This ap
pears a wonderful llory to us,and we do not
knonf how to believe it. If they are really
French they must be childnn .of our old
friends, who we loved. wK h among us,
and we never will fight agai Ift them. ’ A
Aft^r your having advif^) us to make
peace with the ^mericansw keenly thing
that can save us—Yet in fame talk you call,
on ns to fend a number of our warriors to
the Chickefaw Bluff on the* Miflifippi to
join the Spaniards in fighting tbofe people
without breeches and the bad Americans
that may be there. This part of your talk
our whole nation unanimoutty throws iWay,
and desire that they may never again re
ceive such calks hatti you, for they cannot
believe any one a friend to our country
who advises us to take up the hatchetegainft
any white people whatever. We are a poor
unfortunate people, and fttnd in need of
the friend/hip' and affiance of, the whites,
and war with them would bring ruin on
W Our nation hai too long been diftra&ed
by bad advice from your country ; and we*
injured our brothers in the United "
Stares in consequence thereof: But our eyes
arshaw open and fee•bofc—There-
Soatifeirn Department of the United States,
arrived here on the irft. accompanied
with federal 'Creek Chiefs —he has been
five mdnth* in their nation on the mission
of peace ; and the following talks, which
mav be relied on as authentic, will Ihew
bis prog refs towards accdmpiiihing chat
deiirablc objed.
A Tali from the Chiefs of the Creek nation to
his Excellency the Bat ran de Carondett, go*
•vernor of New-Orleans.
Father,
There hath been a general meeting of
the Chiefs of our land at this place, which
closed yesterday— Before the meeting
broke up, we were appointed to answer
three Talks of yours, made at New-Or
leans the sth, Bth, and 25th of January last,
Which,were made public at our said meet
ing bv your commissary Mr. Melford.
Brother, ■
Our anf^er thereto shall be ffiort and
plain ; and we fend it to you on paper, that
you may not be deceived,bv the talks from
your commffaries, as we have great reafoo
to believe you have often been, as hath
also our nation.
The firft of your talks which desires us
toirtake peace with the people ol the Unit
ed States, We like very Well; and thank
you for it—Thia agrees with our own
wishes.
You fay our boundary line with the A
mericans is to be fettled at the court of
Spain—This is what we never knew be
fore ; nor will we eVer agree to any such
thing. We are the mailers of our own
land, and never have, neither will we put
it in the power of any other nation or peo
ple to give it away.—The Chiefs of our
land are the proper people to fettle all af
fairs depending between us and the United
States, and which they are now about to
do. . ’
J’ AMES SEAGROVE, Esq. Su perin
tendant of Indian affairs for the
American Herald of Liberty.
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Indian Chronicle.
fore peace and friendship with the Ameri*
cans is the voice of every man in our land.
There was at ou- meeting thirty (even
principal Chiefs of the CherckeeS who have
joined hand in hand with the beloved man
and us. in fixing a lading peace with our
brothers of the United States. They will
fend you a talk confirming-what we now
tell you. They are also great (offerers by
bad advice, but we hope mercy will yet be
shown co them and the blame placed where
it ought.
Our late general meeting was for the pcr
pofe dt fettleing all our difputeh and mis
understandings between us & the Americans.
The beloved man (Mr. Seagrove) from our
great and good Father,. General Walhing
ton, President of the United States, has
been with us now five moons and attended
all our meetings—He gives us ftraight.and
good talks; such as we have hot heard for
many years—We like them much—He ad
vises us to be in peace with all the world.—
To do juflice, fulfil our engagements, to
trade with them who will ofe us the belt,
to fit in oak lands in peace, and not to mind
or meddle in the diipuies or wars ar*ong
white nationspeople—to shut our ears
again ft all bad|s war talks —This.advice
we are determined to follow and no other.
In a few days a number of our Chiefs
will attend the beloved chan on a visit to
the President of the United States, in or
der to brighten 'and strengthen the great
chiin of ftiendfhip that must bind bis peo
ple and ours together &s a band or broth
ers— Our Cherokee brothers will accom
pany us for the fame purpole.
Father,
We hold you and all our Spanish friends
by the Hand as ufdal. We have not for
got or thrown away the good talks we firft
received at Pensacola, which advised us to
peace with every body, ‘and promised not
to do as the Englilh have done to involve
us in their wars.
We hope you will hot fend anv more
war or other bad talks into our land, or in
sult os by telling us that your commiflary
is to lead us to war—These things we are
determined not to submit to, and must de-,
fire to hear no more such.— If war should
ever become neqeHary weare provided with
leaders in whom we have confidence.
This comes fromycur friends and broths
ers in behalf of ouifelves and the whole
Creek nation. •
The White .Lieutenant of Oakffkees.
The Mad Dog ofTucidbatchees.
The Mad Hickony of do. j
The Head Warrior bf do.
Tef. by Alexander Cornell,
Suorn Interpreter.
Creek nation Tuckabatchee, March 19.1794
By Order of the Chiefs, , .
Richard Thomas, Clerk.
P. S. We have to define that any busi
ness you may in future have with this na
tion, that yqu make the fame known by
\ letter to the Mad Dog, and Alexander Cor
nell, at this place; and that til talks sent
in future be Wrote ih the Englilh language.
Agreeably to tbefe directions they will be
received and attended to ; but not in any
other way or through any .other hands. We
ihave very good reason for adopting such
meafores, which we can at any time facisfy^
you ifi. "
By order of the Chiefs,
Richard Thomas, Clerk.
A Talifrotn the whale-of the Chiefs of the
Upper and Lower Creek Nation dffimbled;
at the Cuff st as on the 1 3 th of dpril, 1794.
. To his Excellency the Go^erner of St. Au ■
gisftine
We the headmen of the Creek nation
here afiembled, inform you that we have
seen Major Seagrove, the American Agent,
and we have heard his talks for these f
months past. We approve of all his talks,
" as he gives none but what were good, and
for the good of the land—he advises ns to
be at peace With all the world and love our
neighbours.—As We have had as yet noth*
ing out good talks from him and the white
people, we wish to have no other.
We the heads ol the nation mean to fit
TUESDAY, Jvly 1, 1794.
still and listen to those talks, and are de
termined to take no other talks, but to lay
quiet, and take no part in the quarrels of
while people of either fide—We do not
wish to have any fall mg out with any white
people on either fide, neither do we wish to
hsve any quarrel with any white powers
0: people whatever. Let therrt fettle their
quarrels with each otb T, and if we have
any quarrels to fettle we do not mean, nor
never did ask any white people to fettle
them for us—lt is but a few days ago that
all the heads of our nation met at the
Tukcabatchees, in the Upper Creek S—at
that meeting we had talks from both na
tions, Americans and Spaniards, which we
much approved of, as they Were all good
and peaceable from both powers—but since
then there is a talk sent from you which
seems to differ very much from those good
talks ; they are calling iis to war, and
we do not like them ; and we do not
mean to take them. Those talks put us
to a stand, as they differ so much from
what we had a few days ago. There
fore we wish to hear no more such talks; •
such talks as we have lately received
from Saint Auguftine,furprife us much ;
such as We'did not exped to hear from
those who call themselves our friends—
They are talks we do not nor did not
wish to hear ; filch talks as these diftrad
our whole nation, and disturb oiir peace
and hunting. As we do not mean to
listen to none of them, we hope you will,
not take amiss what we here write you.
We do not throw away any good talk's
of any friends, but as we have all talked
with the Spaniflr Governors,. and they
. have generally advised Us to be peacea
ble with all white people, and now such
talks to be sent to us we are much sur
prised !—What we have yet received
and heard, has only been verbal — yet
we do not wish to hear any more talks
from you on that fubjed, as we are sen
sible that by talking filch talks, it will
:be the ruin of our nation. Yoii cannot
think hard of what ,we have mentioned
to you, when last summer we had receiv
ed injuries and blood fpilt all around
us—We then "wished to have taken fatis
fadion for the blood wfe had loft. Yotir
! Agent took its by the hand, and told us
to Ray still; that we fliould bring our
selves into great trouble—You even told
us we ihuft nbt exped fatisfadion
from you, if we did not take your
talks and lay still, and not to go to war
bn people of oiir own colour—On your
talks we.refrained doing that we wish
ed ; you in some measure forced us to do
so — Therefore We at this time, think
very strange, that you should alter your
talks so much ; when at this tinqe we are
ftrivihg all we can to fettle matters in oiir
land with the United States for the good
of our nation. We therefore do not
mean to interfere with any talks, or to
, interfere in arty quarrels with any nation
of white people. , .
Our nation at this time lies in a bad.
situation, therefore it will-not answer for
us to interfere in the dilutes of white
people—We haye our troubles as much
as them— therefor we aj e determined not
to interfere in any of their quarrels, nor
; to ask them to interfere in ours.
We therefore beg to hear no more of
such demands as the engaging in war
! from out friends the Spaniards. We like
, wife infill that you will notfet our friends
' the Seminolies to do mifehief on thq fub
jeds of the United . States in anyrefped
‘ whatever, as we are one people^; and if
iby fettftig them on; to disturb the Unit
ed States, any of them should get killed,
we shall blame you and the Spanish na
tion for it, and all injuries done us and
our friends, and make you accpuntaWe
for it—As we have no War with the U
nited States, therefore you are to fettle
your own wars and disputes yourselves.
■ We the head men of the Creek nation
here afiembled from the four riverswhich
Capt. Clinton, aid de-camp to his Roy
al Highness the Duke of York.arrived
thiemorning at the office of the right honor
able Henry Dundas, his Majesty’s princi
pal Secretary of State for the home de
partment, with a difpatA from his rbyal
highness, of which the following is a co
py : " :
tATEAU*, APRIL 18.
SIR, . .
IT is with the greatest fati faflion that I
have the pleasure to acquaint you, for
his Majesty’s information, with the signal
success which has attended the general at
tack made yesterday by the armies of the
combined powers.
According to the plan proposed, the
Austrian, Britife and Dutch armies aflem.
bled on the 16th, on the heights above Ca
teau, in order to be reviewed by his Im
perial Majesty ; after which the Austrian.
aid Bntim armies patted the Selles, and
encamped in front of this town, while the
Dutchformed theii camp immediately in -
its rear.
At nine o’clock on yesterday morning
the three armies moved fotwirds in eight
columns. The firft cplumn, composed of
Austrians and Dutch troops, under the
command cf Prihce Cbyiftian of Hette
Darmftadt. advanced «son the village of *
Carriilon, which was forced after tome re
finance, in which the enemy loft four pie.
tes of cannon, and from thence proceeded
across the Sambre, and took a oofition at
Fayril, between Sambre and (he Petite help
so as to invest Laudreci.es on that fiJe.
The f cond colum commanded by lieu-'
tenant G«ft Aivintz, and consisting of the
reserve of the Auftrisn army, moved for
wards upon Mazingnet, and having forced
^the enemy’s entrenchments at that place,
as well as at O)fy, proceeded to Nouvain
and took pcuTeffion this morning of the
whole wood called the sorest of Nouvain.
*Cqteau—a town of France, 1.2 tai/ej St
E. of Cafpbray,
includes the whole of our nation, would
not wiflii you; the Spaniards, to think that
we mean to give any other Talks than
those of peace in this matter ; you may
from this conclude that we mean to take
no part with you in your quarrels—This
is the voice of the whole Creek nation,
including the Seminolies, and what .we
mean to abide by.
We have like wife sent expresses to the
Seminolies, to inform them of our resolu
tions, and to warn them from taking a
ny part with you ; and have ordered all
our people to quit your country, and re
turn home to prevent their doing any
Wrongandwedefirethat youvrillon no ac
count flop or hinder them, but on the
contrary ad vile them to remove from
yoiir land until it is restored to peace and
quietness.
COWETA3
Hollowing King, Speaker. Coofia Matla t
Little Piince, T'op Kng,
Young Warrior, Mad Warrior^
Coweta Warn or t Cuss etas.
Head Warricr, Cuffe ta King,
Jack Mathews. Btg Kfig,
UsACH USS. Warriors King,
Second Man. Big Warrior,
UcHEES. PaRRACHUCKLI ES.
Ucbee King, T'.ung Warrior, •
Head Warrio'. Head Warrior.
OcoKee., Tuck aSatchees.
Oconte Warrior, Aleck Corneil,
Talliffet, Mad Dog,
Head Warrior. Head IL ardor.
He Tc Ki l as. Head King,
Col John Kennord, Mad Dog s Nephew.
Commissioners appointed by the genirdi meet,
ing of the Nation, to drany up and fend this
talk.
Signed by order of the Chiefs,
Richard Thomas, Clerk.
TisnytNy Barnard, ?
fofeph Cornell, j
ENGLAND.
WHITEHALL, April2l.
[Number 52.