The American herald of liberty — Exeter, N.H., 1793-10-01 00:00:00, page 1

Tbe American Herald of Liberty.
EXETER (New-Hamtfhire) Printed and Publilhed by Henry Ranlet, in Main-Street, at fix /hillings and eight fence per annum.
['The following is afpecimen of the^>irit^>f the
Southern writers on the fubjeft of the Indian War —
the greatest calamity with which our country is af
j &lfted]
From the Georgia Gazette.
A call to arms agaivjt tbe Indians.
Rouse, Couktrynun, Rcufe ! : '
Milunderftanding with the red people
of the Weft, roast soon awake you all to arms.
A thousand trib<s art leagued against you.
Mutual intelligence has made their counsels
the fame, from the shores of Lake Erie to the
Aliamaha, a fami-cirde of more than two
choufa d miles I . . .
The Sachem* have agreed on hoftiliues. —
The priest has performed the sites of divina
tjon. The fconjuror declares, tbe omens robe
good. The chieftains an 4 w««not> have gone
through their fafts and abolitions, ceremonies
deviled by tbe druid of Indians, to secure
them success & a happy return from the towns
qf their enemies. They have whetted the
knife, and iharpened the hatcher of dearh-—
They have brightened their fireloak, moulded
their ball, painted their brow and their body
for war. They ere now writhing and foam
ing with the impatience of furies, to take tbe
* path, to bend their march toward the frontiers
<?f your country, to devote to the tomahawk
your children and wives, to drag you as cap
to die by the torture of flames I—They
only wait the appearance of the appointed
moon, and then to raise the whoop of war,
Jhe yell of devils, to be communicated from
wigwam to wigwam,from town to town, from
mountain to mountain, from the Mujk^he in
the South, round all the circle of Indians to
the Mumkui the North to be re echoed from
M-ami back to the bl Jkoghe again.
Ronfe, countrymen, rouse ! Mike ready to
oppose force by force, and art to art. Fe
deral America has her warriors too ; (he can
point to many of the very soldiers, officers, &
generals, who bore up under a seven year 8
tear against aM roe powers of Bitain—Britain
great amongst the nations- — Britain, whole
arms had triumphed a few years before in e
vei y quarWr cf the globe. Cannot America
Command Come of the troop of Saratoga dill ?
some of the captors of Cornwallis—Cornwallis
who has since become the conqueror of India ?
fame of the choice (pirits who fought at Ben
nington and Monmouth, at Germantown and
Quiljord, at Eutaw and Kangs Mountain,anti
the hardy storm Os Savannah ? Many of those
brave men are ftiil alive, the boast of their
friends, and defence of their country ftiil!
kind Heaven has helo them in his keeping.
Sup into the halls where the sons of Cin
cionatus meet ; there feaAyour eyes on the
gallant American officers, who devoted their
Safe, their health, heir fortunes, and blooc, to
their counrry’s cause, direded your thunder
in the hour of battle, and led on your sons to
the contest of arms - These men have (een the
(moke of ba'tles, these men are not (hangers
,to the mafic of artillery. Cast your eyes on
^ny group of your fellow citizens, and there
you will recogoife the features of fame vete
ran foldiers,who never turned pale at ihe fla(h
pf a musket, nor fell into convulsions at the
explosion of a cannon. Men who fought be
fore can fight again, and they who have com*
spanded can command again they are of o
ther metal than to flinch in the day of dan
ger and alarm; the poftof honor will be fought
again. The military talents of your coun
trymen may find an objeft now ■ talents
which have lain dormant and never been dif
played/rnce the war wish Britain.
In point of defence your resources are am
ple and good ; you can bring into the field the
foot or the horse ; arms and ammunition a
wait your call. You ate equally fortunate in
point of fabfiftence : Heaven has blcffed the
labours of the year through all the interiour
country ; there is enough for the citizen, e
liough for the merchant, and a surplus ftiil for
Ihe war.
Ronfe, countrymen, rouse 1 You have too.
long pfaced a confidence in the faith of a fav-
Uge. No treaty can bind a roving horde,
whether Scythian, Arab or Indian. 'A for
jnal pacification with them is a farce. Trea
ties have no bafisamong a people where tribes
and individuals are so independent of each o
ther. Where senates and council fires aflume
Only a recommendatory power the facial com
pad binds with a very feeble tie. Ana as
far the law of nations, it can no more bridle
banditti of Cowetas, or Chichcmaugahi,
than a cage of cobwebs could confine a tyger.
The faith of an Indian is like that of the
old Carthagenians. Punica Edes et India sides,
ere of equal merit, the one as much out of
credit among Americans as the other among
the Romans. As the wants of an Indian are
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few,his cla'ms and rights are few. The rights
of focieiy are too abftraded for the reasoning
habits of an Indian ; he has no idea of any but
personal rights ; it is with reludance that he
furrefiders any of these ; but if, to constitute
any thing like a body politic, he can be bro*t
to yield up part of his personal right ro day,
he will infallibly resume them again to'mor.
row, if to morrow should present him with
an opportunity or temptation for plunder or
carnage.
An Indian never medicates peace any more
than an eagle or a (hark ; war is his prplef"
(ion ; he enjoys it with the fame rapture that
the hound enjoys the chafe ; his rage for the
glory of arms, starves every other
idvas of a warrior’s lenowu are wrougm. in u
his compofi:ion from the dawn of reason ; they
grew aj he grows, and they die no: until he
dies; his favourite dance is martial, and most
of his fangs are on the fubjeft of war*
Haw many treaties have been negociated
witfi those cutthroats from the Allegheny to the
Appalathe f from earliest times to the year
1791, and have those dogs of w?r become pa
cifiic ftiil ? Have they yet cooled their thirst
for blood ? Are thev yet foftened down to hu
manity and peace ? What fay the dying groans
of your murdered friends, your brethren, your
children ? What could their gentle spirits
whisper in your ear ? What could the ghofls
cf the brave Ha Edin and Teuem AN’tels ?
Hardin and Trueman, both maflacred by
savage hands while bearing to their towns the
flag of peace*’ These are even's of a recent
date ; but you may call up the memory ot half
a century pafled, call up the annals of an hun^
dred summers ; point out the year in the ca
lendar, if you can, that has not seen the foil
of America purpled with the blood of your
citizens, your country, and friends, their bo
dies left to feed the vulture* of the valley,an3
their bones to grow white in the wildernets'.
What do these fafts and these records an
nounce ? Do hey witness the good fai>h or
declare aloud the treachery of Indians ? Do
they crown them as cherubs of peace,or brand
them as farius burning hot from hell ?
What vifionarifes have we been —looking
for a milennium of peace with a people inca
pable of amity and friendlhip. We have
found them such by a thousand trials, and ex
perienced all the ten thousand disasters Ot bro
ken treaties ; and ftiil our statesmen adhere to
the wretched policy : A minister cf war locks
himfelf in his cabinet, (ketches the prelimi
naries of a peace, to be ratified with a few
drunken fcoundreh, in the name of numetous
tribes, as loose detached from each other as
the bands of marauding Saracens beyond the
Red Sea, cf no more existence as a body po
lit c than GullituePs Lilliputians. Peace ‘ma
kers meet, talks are interchanged, the hatchet
is buried, the calumet, of friendiLip goes round
the circle, a profufion of prefencs is made——
presents paid ior out of your pockets, a long .
detail of boundaries is ascertained, and peace
is to be eftablilhed on a firm foundation ; and
this last and best of all treaties is to be held
most (acred by all parties, “while wcod grows
and waters run, or until the rivers have flow
ed upwards as long as they have dekended?’
What is the result of all this parade? What are
the important purposes of state answered by
a treaty attended with all this falemnity and
expense ?
On the rifiog of the treaty, the savage
ftalkt away from the arbor, witere you feafted
his squaws, his dogs and himfelf, far whole
weeks together—he bears home the presents
with which you loaded him, he joins with his
countrymen in laughing at the trick imposed
upon the white people, in tying up their
hands by a treaty, while the red people were
left as free as ever to plunder/to faalp, to tpr
ture the prisoners of war j for a savage will
never conceive himfelf bound by theJittle
scratch he makes on paper with the feather of
a wild goose. *
In the mean time, your country is amused
with dreams of peace. Confiding in a treaty
which had the fa nation of the highest authori
ty. (he fends Gather families and plants them
along the lines ; there they rebuild the hou
ses burned by the Indians, and recruit their
flocks and their barns; but look bevond rhe
mountains, fee the dark savage in his hut ,in
aftion has already chilled his blood, the bile
has gathered round his hearr, and clouds of
gloom hang heavy on his looks ; he broods'
designs of robbery and (laughter again ; he
fees your settlements unlhiplded from his to
mahawk, a long line of frontiers naked to his
infalt, the inhabitants all lulled in security,
intent on agriculture and the arts of peace,
their swords beaten into plbughlhafes, and
their bayonets into *b e ir
firelocks out of ordcr and lying useless by ;
with the malice of a fiend he marks them far
his prey, with the velocity of a fiery flying
TU E S D A Y Oftober i, 1793.
f^pent he darts across the fareft with 1000
Warriors more, the moment they fee the smoke
of your chimnjes, they draw the hatchet of
death, found the whoop of war, and all the
obligations of the treaty go to the devil.
Such are the biefled etfed, of Indian trea
ties I—Mere political mummery 1 The thea
tre of ministerial (peculation ! A Secretary
of War might as well have gone into his office
and there seriously penned down articles of a
treaty between the wild pigeons and the ea
gles bn the banks of Lake Huron ; as well
might he exercise his authority ro bring a
bout a good under (lancing between a lion and
a lamb, between a fawn and a ca/cajou.
Ronfe, countrymen, rouse I, Force from the
^ravages tl^“s po-»(tr and biocd
(hed, new model your terms of treaty altoge
ther, never close another negotiation without
adopting the policy of Earl Cornwallis in his
late wars of India, take hostages ofihe enemy
as the only feenrity they have to advance ;
carry fire and (word into their country, and
compel them to farrender up the sons of their
sachems and chief warriors. Indians are rhe
fame in the weft as they are in the east, th'e
fame at Bangalore as beyond the Ohio. Ihe
British General knew it was impossible to
chain Lippoo Sultan down to good faith by
mere promises or belts of wampum-—he de
manded something more fabftaniial ; he had
thetwoycang princes delivered up to guar
rantee rhe treaty against contravention. Citi
zens of America I imitate this sage negociator,
have the greatness of mind to learn a leflbn
from your ancient enemy ; he has beer, taught
by you—he learned to his cost in Ameiica,^ hat
“ determined republicans are not to be couquer
tdP
Now, my countrymen, let me. only hope
that the efFafions of my zeal on this fubjed
may be received in good part by you. I feel
a । low ofenthufiafm for the welfare and ho
nor of America. I boast of my birth on these
plains of freedom, and I have fubferibed to
the dodrine that all mankind are born in e
qual liberty, and even savage nations must
te entitled to the rights of men. But your
former mode of treating with a hoflilelndian,
has ever been unequal and disadvantageous to
you: therefore, when your national senate
(hall proclaim the war, and the commander
io chief (hall call far the regular troops and
the volunteer corps, be ready for the word of
command, whatever it may be, whether to fi
nite 'o total extirpation,or drive them beyond
the M'ffifippi, and the Lakes, or to humble
them down to a treaty, when the best blood
in the nation (hall be given fora holLge, and
the noblest of every tribe retained in your
prisons or your guards. Rut whatever be the
word, whether total extirpation, ban (h me nt
beyond the limits of the Hates, or hostages a
gneed to, and treaties tried again.as they have
no cheftsof gold like Montezuma, no treasures
.of rupees like Tippoo Saib, no wealth, no re
fouxees to com penfare you far the expenses of
rhe war, in either case, you mutt be indemni
fied by an accession of territory, the whole or
part of those charming countries over which
they spread. ACHILLES.
Foreign Intelligence.
GERMANY
frank FORT, qpHE besiegers of Mayence* -
JUNE 20. 1. have jvft been the vic
tims of a new mistake. They had announc
ed that the bombardment of rhe town, would
begin in the night of the 17th Many cor
ious people placed themselves in elevated fi.
tuations, and waited in vain even until day
break to fee the batteries fire. But instead of
that, thev heard a very smart and continued
fire of mufquetry, which day light only put
an end io. It was then fant that two Prus
sian columns had been engagingj each think
ing they were opposing the French. Not
less than 1500 men (ell in this action. The
silence which reigned in Mayence, kept the
Prussians in their error, for they thought the
garrison did not fire, for faar of hurting their
brethren, who had made the supposed sortie,
and which both parties of Prussians imagined
they were fighting.-—Early, in the morning,
and just as the mistake was difeovered, the
• garrison really made a fartie, and made jprifan
ers the whole corps of engineers, for not one
of them has since been found. They were all .
1 together in a particular situation, to direct the
, intended bombardment.
, coblentz, JVNB 20, Weleam by letters
I from Treves, that the French are assembling
in great numbers near Tbionville and Saar
; Louis. It appears their design is to attack
r Treves upon the two sides at once*
FRANCE.
Paris, july Oar cause is an univer
sal one, and our unparalleled struggles and
fufierings, must certainly excite ihe aitrntioa
and ardent good wiihes of rhe whole human
race. Benevolent minds are no doubt afflided
at the effufion of human blood, but let them
remember, that the contest in which we are
now engaged, has for object universal and
perpetual peace. If we (ucceed in eftablilh
ing.our principles in Europe, and aboliflung
kingly governments, we (hall certainly eradi
cate the principal causes which have, far cen.
turies, produced war after war, and llained
our planet with the blood of its inhabitants,
Should our cauie succeed, men would indeed
be fenfiule of their righthand co Jongct faffer
their instruments of husbandry to be wrested
from their funds, a death giving weapon
placed in their Head, and then at the nod of
an impious tyrant, absurdly, (hdmefuhy (offer
themselves to be led, to cut the throats of
another body ofcultivarors of the earth, ignor
ant. innocent and (laves like themselves, to
whom they could give a fra ernal embrace,
at the very moment they are commanded to
deprive them of life. Should our principles
take root in the world, commerce and ere in*
tercourfe between nations would no longer be
fubjefted to the narrow and ridiculous policy,
cf avaricious despots, who ate always the most
ignorant of men with refped to the true in
terests of civilized man. BjC it is now cer
tain, that the age of light and reason is ap
proaching, the time fa wished lor, by
philosophers and ph lanthroptfts ; the age of
prejudice’, ignorance and tyranny is pafling
away ; men begin to think and ad for them
selves, our insulted and degraded species riles
at last, indignant,fil|ed with aftoniftimcnr that
they have tamely crept at the footflocls of
gods of their own making, for fa many thou,
(and years. _
Some enemies to our bappinefs are at this
instant busily employed, in Ipreading falfe &
altered copies of the Conduction through the
whole extent of the republic. But the Con •
vention in their late addrtis to the People,
“ promise to watch over it, and to foliow it
with an eagle’s eye, until it arrives in all its
purity at the most distant cottage in the na
tion.” The*Conventjon invites ail niend#
to Liberty, to difeover ihefe fabricators of
falfelaws. “ The monsters who are breaking
the anchor of pioperty which has just been
thrown in the midst of rhe tempest,” and
entreats all good citizens to suspend their j udg
ment, nn il they fee ihe authentic copies, ad*
dressed dirediy from the executive council, to
the communes and constituted authorities.
The Convention (ay they “ expeded fame
such wicked attempt, as every grand epoch of
the revolution has always faggefted a new
crime to aristocracy and royalty.” " The
success of our republican conflitution’ 1 fays
the address, i’, certain ; for if it had been
“ hurtful to the people and nn,favourable to
their rights, aristocracy would never have at
tempted to alter it.” The Convention has
decreed “ that the’ pur iftiment of death (hall
be inflided on ary person who print?, fells or
diftribuies any falfified or altered copy of the
Contention.”
julv 2- The combined efforts of the de
spots against Us, have made us know and feel
our own strength and vast refaurccs. Our ci
tizens fa far from being dismayed at the num
ber and farce of their enemies, breathe noth
ing but revenge for their infamous attempt!
against our (acred freedom. The contempt
of our soldiers for the Auftrains, is hard fa be
conceived of. (The Spaniards we ccunt
nothing.) The King of Prujfia's. coffers are
exhausted, and he must soon quit. With re
(ped to England, we may fay, “ and thou too,
Brutus.” The Englifti, that once free and
generous people, are now leagued with tyrants
in a liberticide war. But we fear them net,
we with their bappinefs, and as a firft step to
wards it, tbe invasion of England is at length,
firmly resolved on. It is no secret for if we
will ir, nothing can hinder us. We (hall em
bark near the fame place where our fierce and
hardy ancestors did, above seven hundred
years ago, those irrefiftrble conquerors who
crossing the narrow sea, conquered and drew
chains over the Engliflh and held their faces
in the dull for so many centuries. B t our in
vasion is totally different in its nature. We
foall not lartd on their coast t^ enslave them,
but to break tfieir chains, to humble their
tyrants, and restore—to the nation, that liber
ty, u ich a, people, naturally so fcood, so brave
and so high (pirited, isentiiled to enjoy.
The T*g fr p r i vatee n ^ aß e b rod ght into
Brest, three Englifti veffeh, which were de
(igned for the ccaft of Breugue. One of
the® has on board a Urge fam of money.
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