The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser — Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.], 1792-01-17 00:00:00, page 4

operand lower towns were to hold a' meeting, and
eonlult whether they Ihouid take Bowles's talk or
hot.
On meeting, the Mad Dog and Tame King, of
tjie Upper Towns, afked the Lower; whether they
hud already taken Bowles's talks, where the letters
were which this great man had lent them,and where
th.e white man wast who was to read thole letters;
The Indian who was in Bowles s employ anj'wered,
The was to give them the talk ) they made aHatfgh at
this, and laid they could hear his mouth ev6ry day
-—they had come there to fee thole letters and heat*
"'them read*: and upon this nt'oft of the Uhiefs ofthe
"Upper ToWns left the meeting, the few who re
mained took the talk. *%t wall afterwards agreed
that a talk ihonld Be held at the point, to know
whether Bowies,- who had not got the nation gcke
tally to take his talks;' would then -proceed to dd
what Be could foy them according to his promife.
,The ahfwer "T?as, he had got ail he Wanted to join
h!m, and he lhould put thebigfeal to the talk, and
lend it over ttie b'tg .water,to'.the big man, and that
'he, Bowies, would a Ho wine to Georgia to have
their lands given up, and if they did not'; he would
"tvrite to England for afsifrance to have their lands
taken buck again. He then'advifed them in the
mean time to go a hunting,- but charged them to
be peaceable, not to fteal hcri'es; and to be friendly
.to the white people, that it was not his talks td
hiiior fteak HealfotoM them that he had hn
thoufand men on tiie Hlandn, and he could get men
'by fending fob fhetn/ifthofb were not enough'y
that .when'he Should bring bis men there, if any of
the Indians chodfe to join him they might, if nop
'ihey might let ftiil. Bowles alfo inforuted the fti
dians that he was about to lend letters for Georgia,
and had appointed out an Indian who could talk
"EngHih to bring them ; the Indian, thus appointed^
informed, tkironxeaux he fhould carry them to
Beard's Bluff; hut DuronxeaUx directed him to car
ty them to the Rock Landing.; and it was believed
the letters werefent off when I left the towns.-—
The indlah who carried the difparches to General
M'Gillivray? found the General indiipofed, he read
the letters, and told the Indian he would make
fume letter's in the morning'; the Indian according
ly waited until after breakfaft, when MGiilivray
told h.itn the Indians had thrown his talks away ;
they had made him alhamed in his own country, and x
9 liar to the White people; that they had taken'.a
ftranger's talks, dhd thrown away his, and now he
had thrown theirs away; they &fght- get fomebody
clle to make letters and talks for them'. He thed
deciared lie fhould leav^ethe nation ; a good many
of the beads of the Upper Towns being prelent
craved him to fray ; but he would not^ liften to
them tbofe among tiienphe faid, which he thought
tobefmfiblemen, had taken a Granger's talk^g
man who had deceived him once, by telling him he
was a great man, and when he afke'd for his cont'
milEon, faid, lie had left it af home: that bv the'
fpring he expected to fee them alt killed or drove,
and, then they would be ghd to'liearhis talks ,- for'
when the Great King was here with all his people,
and-had Inch of the Indians as choie to join to af
Itft, the Americans drove him amt his people away,
and what could they, with a handful of men, expect
?o do againft tiie Americans .? that he had kept
peace for them a longtime, but they would not find
it lo hereafter.
y? ?<z% we/wJ AAycr 6. .
The White Bird King came over, attended byaf
Cbi'.'t Warrior of the CufKta.t, called the Mole, and
George the Great Warrior, from the i'arne towns.
The W'hite Bird King began, and delivered a ta!k
from the Chief King of the Cugetas, caiied the Biy
Lij:t]e man, which amounted to this .'that they
were for nothing but peace and (^uietnefs, and wiiin
ed to take the white people aii by the hand, and to
keep a white path from here to the nation ; that if
a white man was killed above here,as was reported
they knew nothing of it ; that the Coweras, to
whom the debt wasdue,. had not yet fent out a par
ty to fake fatisfaction.
j ne Chief called, the Mole, delivered a letter
from Bowles galled by them the Lying Captain)
directed to thecommiiiioncrs of the United States,*
^for fettling the boundary line, &c. which was read'
after which the White Bird King, prefented Mr.
-t'dic-ott with a white wing, which the Mole had
bought down as a token of frientlihip, and to be
lent to Cenprefs'; lie aHfi 'rcqucftfdfcmtthing white
inretutn, toc;ar]yto tLet;aticn, tolhewthatthe
path was white.
Ufaches, Cctoher z6, ry^r.
By order of the Chicls in Council met.
CBNTUMB'N, ' ",
FEELING, 'with the deepeft concern, the hoftili
tics and bloo'dihed, which have been produced by
the diheicnces, i'ubhtiiig bet ween ns and the United
States, in ail parts of onr borders; we now olfer
cur endeavottrs, in behalf 11 the tour nations, to
wards terminating the prefent war, and adjufring
fuch terms of conciliation;' as may decide forever the
platters now in dilpute..
You well hnow that thecaufe of difeontent with'
its has ever been the limits and borders of our conn
try. Without entering ihro the particulars ofthli
ddj ute, as it relates, to various parrs of the villble
lincbetW'eenusand the white people, h-e only beg,
you to conlider, whether on an inlpection of the
map of this country, and the hiftory of the laft two
cettturies, it ones hot apt'ear, that of the two peo
pte it is the lneiians, and not the white people, who
have mp.ft reafon to complain of ftrengthened li
inits. We have retreated frbm the plain to the
w oods, from thence to the mountains, but no limits!
eftabHfbed by nature or by compact, have (rayed
the ambition, or fatisRed the avarice of your peo
ple. But there is a time when political diiord^r$
have their end, as you yourfelvcs have experienced
and we look forward to. '
It is the folemn determination dfall our Chiefs,
in Council met, to adhere to a border fairly agreed
upon,- but inch agreement muft be national acts
that have the concurrence bf the legislative council
of the nation, and not a clandefiiue bargain with
an unconnected individual, as this'prefent pretended
convention with Alexander M'Gillivray has been;
inch t'tanfadtioHS originate in fraud and always lead
to animofities and bloooihcd. '
You Ihould be reminded that when his Britannic'
majeffyhad poifefEons in the Carolinas, Geogiaand
the Horidas, he never claimed any fovereignty over
theie hations',' but we continued, duringall that tinted
fpread over this country, and were confidered the
lawful owners of all the land not fold by us to th^
Britith fubjed.
W e therefore conceive, and ybu well know, that
ho fovereignty was ceded toyou at the,peace of
except over fuch land as was pnrehafed by his ma
jeity's fubjeds by folemn treaty ; and that we are
now, as we always have been, an independent'
people. Knowing this and knowing our ability to
maintain our independence, we view, With aflonilli
ment, the t:eps taken by the United States to rob u# '
ofour land.
We have novv before us an ad paffed by the legi
jflative body of the (fate of Georgia, at Augufa, da
ted the 20th December i^Sc), entitled, "an ad for
Hifpoling of certain vacant lands, or territory wit h
in this ftate We alfo fee that numbers of men '
. have folemnly engaged themfelves, and are now form
ing plans to get pcflcflion of out lands ^ this we fee
in a publication of this year, extradtd from the mi
nutes of the companies at Charleffon, dated the 14th',
January,- and Rnally adjuffed and agreed upon the
5th of April, ati'd we at this time fee a military force
brought within the borders of our country, who'
pretend to treat ih-ith us about st border to be obfer
ved in future between us.
Gentlemen, We do not hhderftand your pre&nC
proceedings but as it is our wiih to put an end to'
further bloodllied, we propofe therefore that yon ''
fhonld apppmt one or mere perfons, duly authorifed
by the Congrefs of the United States, to treat with
the Chiefs, in council met, at the Ufnchees, were
all public buRnefs will be tranfaded as foon as may
be; but fhould your intentions difhoneft, know
that weiiill have friends and warriors fufheient to'
ftam your land with blood,and that it is our folemn
determination to fell our lives with our country
But peace is beft for all men: we therefore de
hre you to conflder well the bufinefs now in hand
hbje ^ ^termination as foon as po&
Ay <?r^er Cc^w/7,
Gen. Wm. A. BCWLES,
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