The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1792-02-29 00:00:00, page 1

ter the last mentioned invitation,
upwards of one hundred, persons were
killed, wounded, and take, prison
ers upon the Ohio, and in the dif
trid of Kentucky.
ft is to be remarked, that previ
ously to the last invitation, the peo
ple of Kentucky, who,in consequence
tof their injuries, were meditating a
blow against the haftile Indians (as
before intimated) were retrained by
the President of the United States,
from crossing the Ohio, untij the ef
fed of the friendly overture intend
ed to be made should be known.
T^ is also to be observed, that the
Wyandots and Delawares, after hav
ing, frequently an .d fruitlefily endea
voured to influence the Miami,
and Wabash hodian# to peace ; upon
mature conv'i&ion, finally declared
that force only pbukleffea th^ object.
As an evidence that the conduel of
the hoftilelddiani h%been occasioned
by other motives than * flaim rela
* tively to 'boundaries —jtis t( ? ° e °°~
foved, that their depf^tio, have
been principally upon the diftriaof
Kentucky, and,he Counties of Vir
ginia, lying .along the South-fide
of the Ohio, a country to which they
have no claim. • . f
It appears by refpesab|e evidence,
that from th.* year 1783, unt ^ ?h e
month of October, 17&0, th^ time
thtUoited States commenced ofinfive
operations against die laid Indians,
that on the Ohio, and the frontiers
ore the south-side thereof, they killed,
wounded and took prisoners, about
one then sand five hundred men, wo
fen and children ;be fideS carrying
off upwards bf two. thousand hoffes,
and otherproperty tbtht amount of
fifty thousand dollars.
The particulars of the Barbarities
e^ercifed upon many of their prison
er, of different ages and f^xes, al
though supported by indrfputabl'e e
vi<lericc& are of too (hocking a na
,t^re to be predated to the public.
It is Efficient upon this head to ob
fer+e that the tomahawk & (czlping
knife have been the mildest inihu
menti of death. That in feme cases
"torture by-fire, and other execrable
means, have been ofed.
But the outrages which were com
• Fitted upon the frontier inhabflants
wee not the only injuries; that were
retained ^repeated attacks upofr.
tachmentrof the troops of tWUnited
Status were at different tinfes-mad^.
' ThAllowing from its peculiar enor
" mity deserves recital.-— In April,
179°, major Doughty was ordered to
: ttefttefyy Ghkkafaws on public
' Hyperformed this duty ,n
fe a Vat ira^ him Bnligri Se
dain, and it party of fifteen ^n.
^ Wlffl&akdnditeg the Teneffee river,
Ear.'
Newhampfliire
[Concluded from our lafl.]
, _-
IN three days after the Messenger's
departure from the Miami vil
fye, a prisoner was there burnt to
death. Similar cruelties were ex
ercised at the Ouittannon towns, a
bout the fame time ; and in the course
of the three months immediately as.
EXETE R,(New-Hampfhire) Printed and Published by HENRY RANLET, at Nine Shillings per annum.
f^ cause of.t^e trifling Hofiliriej be
tween /^UNITED STATES, ana
certain Tribes of INDIANS, north
<wef of the Ohio,fated and explainer
from official and autbehticDocnments,
and publz/bed in obedience to the orders
efthe President of the United Spates.
WEDNESDAY, February 29, 1792.]
A treaty was held at the Painted
Post by Col. Puckering,. :n June,
1791, With a part of Six Nations, a
which ihe humane intentions,of the
-general government towards th, m
particularly, and the Indian tri; o es
generally, were frlly explained,
Capt. „endtick:s,-a refpel iable
1 Indian feeding with the Og eidas,
appearing zealously difpofedv^to at
tempt convincing the hcßile:lndians
of their raiftaken condud, was ac
cordingly lent for <hat pn^pofe, but
was frulirated by uofcgefey, pbfagles,
in his laudable attempts.
The different meafur/s which have,
been recited, msft e%',pc„ diat iot?
: withjftan ding , the highly culpable
coQdutl of the Indians in queltion,
, thfe governmentofthe United states ? .
: feejnfluencety. by ^feptment, or %ny
Pio&OT hnd theCornplanter,although
zealeufty desirous of executing their
mission, encountered difficulties of a
particular nature, which were in
iurmountabte, and prevented the
'execution of their orders.
rMajor general -St. Clair, in the
month of April, sent millages from
Fort Harmar to the Delawares ex
preffit? of the pacific defigas of the
United States, to all the Indian
bribes.
The Cornplanter, a warchief of the
Seuekasf and other Indians of the fame
tribe, being in Philadelphia in the
month ofFeoruary,l79l,were engaged
.to undertake to impress the hoftifeln
dians^ith the cen(equences of their
petfirting id hostilities, and also the
justice and moderation of the United
orates.,,.
fn pursuance of this design, Col.
Prodor, on rhe fourteenth ot March,
was feof to the Corn-planter to haft,
en his departure, and to accompany
him to;rhcM:ami village— & meftages
werefencto he Indians declaratory
of the pacific sentiments of theUniced
Stste> towards them. But both Col.
the depredations dill continuing, at
attempt at coercion became indifpefy 4
fible. Accordingly the exp^ditity^
under brigadier general Harmer, if.
the month of October, >790, was di,
reded. The event is known. [-^
After this expedition, the goverAct
of the Wellern Territory, in order
that poshing might be omitted, to
effed a peace, without further cem
flid, did on his arrival at Fort Hir
mar; in December, 1791, fe edl
through the Wyandats and Delawares 1
conciliatory messages to theMiamiei,
but Hill without tffcO.
he was met by a party of forty In
dians, in four ca foes, confiding prin
cipally of the a forefaid banditti of
Sha»anefe, and oat-cast Cherokees.
——They approx ched under a white
flag,the well-knoT 'riemblem of peace.
.They came on boa : 'd the major's beat,
received his prefen is, continued ivich
him nearly one hot V, and then de
parted in the most tiendly manner.
But, they bad fcarc kly cleared | is
oars, before they pouted in a fire up
on his crew, which w is returned las
soon as circumstances vtould permit,j
and a most unequal coo that was fuj
tained for several hour 1, when they
abandoned their design, but not nil
til they had killed and v. vunded el?
ven out of fifteen of the betel's crevi.
This perfidious condud, in any ago,
would have demanded exemplar)
punishment.
All overtures of peace failing, and
H. KNOX, Secretar, of War.
W ar-Department, Jan. 16, 1792.
i toete^©^®^®^^
( Jn the proposed TAX onNedvs-Papers.
ICANNOTh-lp lamenting,when!
confider the great injury the People
I will derive from fa unprecedented and
partial a tax, as that proposed byCon
grefs on the carriage of news- papers
"unprecedented, because I believe no
such thing was ever heard of before,
unless it was in Countries where the
Government with to prohibit the cir
culation of news-papers—and partial,
because it is paid by one particular pro.
session only: Iris certainly a tax,& for
my part; I believe it little Ihort of a
Stamp—and l wifti it may not prove
more dtftrc&iye to" the profeffion,than
any flxntyt-a& could possibly be. I
have always underwood it as one grand
principle, Ip our political creed,"that
the frecdom,vf the Press ought not to
Be i<sr?jned ;" <nd Iwcll krcu
that the. citizens of this country are so
fully topreffed ' with this idea, that
"y "^,»b'ich mijift be taken to ob-
To obtain protection against la,-j
less violence, was a main object for
which the present government war
inflituted. It is, indeed, a main ob--
je& of all government. A frontier
citizen possess as firong claims to
protection as any other citizen.' The
frontiers are the vulnerable parts of
every country ; and the obligation of
the government of the United States,
to afford the requfiteprotection, can
not be less fecred in reference to the
.inhabitants eftheir Weflern, than to
t hose of their Atlantic^ frontier. „;
>lt will appear from a candid re
i£ ^w of this fubjed, that the general
gm ernment could no longer abffaio
fio, 1 attempting to punilh the bof,
tiletylndians.
11 ie ill fucceft of attempts for this
purpk fe, is entirely unconnected with
the j# dice or policy of the measure.
A pre fervar.ee in exertions to make
the re fradory Indians at last sensible,
that t bey cannot continue their enor
mous, outrages with impunity, ap
pear, to be as indilpenfible, in the
eriftj ng posture of things, as it will
be a jyjfeable. whenever they Jhall
manj 'eft symptoms of a more amica
ble( ifpofirion, to convince them, by
deci five proofs that nothing is so
niu< h defiled by the United s:ates,
a '/ obe at liberty to treat them with
ki<, .dnefs and beneficence.
THE
falfe principles which might arise
from a confeioufnefs of superiority, a
dopted every proper expedient to
terminate the Indian hoftilities,with
out having recoarfe to the last extre
mity ; and, after being, compelled to
resort to rt, has still kept Readily in
view the reeCablifhment of peace
as its primary sole and object.
Were it neceflary to add proofs of
the pacific and humane difpofaions of
the general government towards the
Indians tribes, the treaties with the
Creeks, and with the Cherokees,
might be cited as demonstrative of
its moderation and liberality.
The present partial Indian war is
a remnant of the late war, continued
by a number of feparaie banditti,
who, by the incefont praaice of fif-'
teen years, seem to have formed in
veteratc and incurable habits of
enemity against the frontier inhabi-;
tants of the United Sta.es. :
Gazetteer.
. In North-Carolina, there are but
two news-papers published,and which
afford but little profit to the pro
prietors of^hem. Here,in my opin
ion government ought rather to con
tribute towards the fbpport of the
Press, than do any thing which might
tend to deftro, it. The printers of
both thtfe newspapers derive little or
no profit from advertisements. How,
then are they to pay the postage ? and
if thy do pot receive the papers from
their brother printers, how,will the
people of this fate be informed of the
proceedings of . government? This
Ante is worse off than mny other Rate
in the union, in the circulation of
newfpap'rs : rind Ido firmly believe
that the enmity still prevailing in this
fate to the federal government, may
be attributed to th,t Cagfe. How,
then, will the people be informed,
should these two printers be obliged
to give up ? - ; y
In South-Carolina, 4here are three
newspapers Dublifhed, two pf which
printed in Charleston , the other, £
expea, will meet the fate of the felt
of his unforiuate brethren, whole pa
per is not amply farniffied with ad
vertifentenis.
In Georgia there are two. Both in
South-Carolina & Georgia, the newf
papefs circulate badly, and will much
tyorfe, ^bgn jhe people find them-
ftruQ it, would be considered in a very
unfriendly point of view.; The peo
ple are not without their jealousies &
fears, and I hope they never Mill be,
as it is that alone which can prevent
the arm of authority front encroaching
upon their Rights and Liberties., -{The
liberty of the Press is the grand palla
dium of oar. political frccdom=-ihe
people have a sacred regard towards
its preservation, and they have too
much penetration not to ' feel alarmed
when they fee any meafgres taken to
clog it.^itds the only, channel rhro'
which they can be informed of th,
proceedings of their rulers. They
are already bet badly informed of
them, which has given rife to many
mifapprehenfions;.&they will be much
worse informed,- should the proposed
enormous tax, or postage, take place.
There are now published inVirginia,
nine news-papers, and more than two
thirds of them - nearly depend upon
fubicriptions, for their fopport. Now
is it poffiblethat a Printer who, per
haps does not receive more than one
or two advertisements a week ;for this
is actually the case with many of them)
can afford to pay three or four dollars
a week postage ?—His fubferiptiorts
will barely support his paper, & they'®’
are paid annually.—A Printer,
thus fitpated., muff give up his bufi- -
nefs —and this will be the case with a
great many, of them. Here is an Aft
Government,rthfainfng the Press,
by which the people are debarred of
th, ufeful fcurcc ot information. Will
they not then, have fears and a,pre
tentions? 1 know it is suggested by
some, that fognany Ne*%Paper» are
a burthen to the community; but, if
there was one to be printed „at erefy
court house in Virginia,! believe they
•.Quid greatly tend ter preserve our in
ternal tranquility, and would prove a
blessing to the commuity ; and I will
not harbour the idea, that any one can
be so great an enemy to bis country,
as to wish to destroy a profeffion that
has proved so beneficial to it.
[Numb. 3§ of Volume 6.