The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-10-13 00:00:00

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i:v Inlet, from the JourrialOf sireetiemaa travelling' In the
-Souitrein taectiorr of Ille-Urrited States. •
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he Indians lnbehiting the'cblitridlyitig between
pnitri •na the 'Mbialsrifpril •ceirlsl tiring into the
00,1 tiliont 11,000 Si sitiOrs t:-.lliethectiitt, 4,000;
Uf-ek.;' 3,300, Chcrnkees,' 14011 4ChliitteSlws,
I,MOd; Seminoles, l'hieforte,l ifeeihridied
pal hieiNe, IF op* be it serioui enlist to tfie 'Muted
%Idea"; Tortutialely,', believer) there' tallsta amoittr
the different tribes, jealnatilkind entities that *lll
rr year such an assncriftlati liver 'tat itigiliscit,"-and
enable 'O4 United Statil4'in of Itiretillty
',sifts 'either, to employ' Ai active altibs say Of' the
tort ioiri
1 fig dreeks were tomerly the most warlike, hist
the servers conflict in the year 1813 diminished their
numbers and their spirit ; mine of them are, however,
enemies to .be despised ; in personal.courage they are
aelhom deficient, but, like all irregular troops, hay-
ing no idea of military combinations, or that cor.fi-
deuce and reliance upon each, taught by discipline
to the formed• soldier. and so essential to victory,
they will always be defeated unless they are the as,
sedan% or attacked on ground exceedingly advan-
tageous. to Wein.
Their cipieity to 'entere greet fatigue, watching,
ficiegov-:-:t boa personel'actielty, knowledge of the fo.
Teat, Addetio their carer, render them in a clok
cOussiry an eirceedittglpletigeroua foe.
The Seminoles, with whom we waged the hist mar,
inhabit a tract of country, part of which is in the
United States, but the larger portion lies beyond the
line separating it from Florida. They were origi..
tinily a small party of banished outlaws, driven from
anion the Upper end lAtiver Creeks; who, increas-
ing in number, living in i leountry exceedingly diffi-
cult to penetrate, associating themselves with a band
of desperate runaway negroes, and, instigated by
their natural ferocity and the artifice of British
trailers, have always manifested a disposition inimical
to the United States, have since the year 1813 been:,
notorious for their depredations upon the whites. .
In August last it was very well ascertained that.
they wire the authors of several murders committed
upon the white inhabitants of the frontier.
A patient endurance of suffering is always regard•
ed by the Indians as au indication of weakness, ind
is sure to produce a repetition of the insult or-injury.
General Gaines demanded that the murderers should
be given up, it waspessvered with taunt and defiance;
and let it be remembered by those who scrims the
country of pursuing a barbarous policy towards Ns.
people, and endeavour to involve then in wars, that
when reFiticoxy, the principal warrior and leaders.
was abked why he was (bus .horitile,to the Upited
States, he replied, by acknewlerlging4 that the Go--
vernment were always ready to do him justice,
and to make peace with him, but that. ru wss ullne
manly exercise in which. be wished to practice his
young men. .
The 7th regiment crossed the Flint river, diaper*.
ell the Indiana, burnt Fowls-town, and returneclaaaa
Thia pet of war was premature; the troops we hullo
the field, so far from being able toasabjegate the env.
my, were inefficient to meet ihim in (etc conflict..--:.
'I he Indians assembled, attacked is boat ascending
the river, captured it, end put toteath 40 persons;
composing Its crew; they advanced oat the ,river,
surrounded our troops in Fort Scott, andateLiaff their
communics !inn,
General Gaines called upon the. State of Georgia
fur 1,500 militia ; these men unfortunately were de-
tailed but for too months ; end before they could ap-
proach towards the enemy, that period expired, and
they returned to•tlieir homes.'
General Gairies made ti itocend mill upon Georgia
for 2,000 men for vii Months ; they assembled at
Hartford ; General Jackson was now authorized to
accept the services of 2,000 Tennessee volunteers, to
call out the friendly Indiana, and to take the field
himself. With his • accustomed activity, be rapidly
organized these men for service, and giving them or.
ePTS to concentrate at Fort Scott, he proceeded to
Hartford, and 'placing himself et the head of the
Georgia militia, moved them towards the same point.
--General Jackson had in vain :endeavoured to pro-
cure provisions for his force ; and a correct idea may
be framed of the intrepid coat of his character, from
the circumstance or his starting, with 2,060 men, on
a march of ten days through a wilderness, when his
only means of subsistence was a daily pint of corn
for each man, and w heit he well knew, that on his
4116,01 at Fun Scott lie could obtain but a very' scan-
ty supply. •
At Fort Scott General :Jackson found the regular
troops and friendly Indians. The mocemeot of the
Tennessee volunteers had been marked with the same
boldness as that of the ether troops : apprehensive
of the want of prosisions, they halted nn the route{
end Lad not yet joined. Gen. Jackson' dvanced into
the Indian country, destroyed their villages, and en-
tering Florida, took possession of St. Mark's. The
Indians fled before him, and the Spaniards dared trot
oppose his progress.
The Stile of Georgia affnrds but few of the neces-
saries for the subsistence of an army, and the face of
the country in which General Jackson operated
abounded with invincible impediments to trensporta.
tion in wheel carriages ; great, therefore, were the
Buffeting% of the troops—subsisting upon a pint of
tern—marching through swamps and morasses,
wading creeks, and sleeping On the wet gr.und,
without.Aeller--were privations endured from mo-
tives of the purest patriotism, and in which the Ge-
neral participated equally with the meanest soldierin
h•s army.
General Jackson was new about ter move hi;
troops from FlOfids, when he dlscniered that the
Governor of l'atrXschls, instead of exerting himself
to fulfil the treaty existing betiveen the United States
and his Kirig, by which he was bound to protect' our
citizens from sava'ges within MS dominious, had basely
•violated the Spa nish 'faith, and protected, euco-ursged,
and furnished the, meths e_ wit tif Worthless
trim', at the saw time lasing wasteeilverfrntiernt
the Alabama territorf,„and waging a war of destruc-,
trio Iviinst the finitlOrily ind mist innocent pa rt•
of our pOpelslion.
.General Jacksnn- considered,
tirar this r,,,r of treaty authorized him to take pos.
sestiou of Pensicols, kticeing viii Olt it a -7s the