Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-05-18

destroyed: that their warriors were ~
Ing out, aud tina, they had only come into
get something to eat. We we're struck
with establishment a. the fact bot could
get no information Of the csuse, or the
authors of this base transaction. Al We
could learn va, that party Of msuoted
men had entered their town with white
Gag and fired on them, while the hand
of friendship was extended to them; tina.
they had killed cid Howard with six
other men, and three females, an old
womar, a girl and child /; that they
had burnt all their houses, plundered eve.
~ thing they could lay thei' hands on, U
made precipitate retreat. OF the cause
they were as ignorant as we were. They
expressed no sentiment Of hostility, bur
relied on the justice Of our government
Tor 'eparation, and seemed to think that
il would be amicably settled, and here I
hope government will not disappoinr
them. We informed them we were con-
fdent government could not have autho-
rised the measure; and that the command
ing general was entirely unapprised of
it; that general Glaseock at the head Of
the Georgia militia. was in their neigh.
borhood and would afford them protection;
and that they might with safety call in
their warriors, Old men. women and chill.
dren, which they did. On our arrival
at Fort Early We were informed Of the
facts. A Mr.. Wright who was elected
in Savannah to command 4 company
of militia from that place, which al
forwards in consequence Of his being
sick and unable to command, elected the
1st lieutenant to command the company,
who was regularly muster ed into SER
vice as the captain of that company
and is now in command of the compa-
ny in the U. States service-he Wright
came TO Hartford, reported himself cap
tain in the service, assumed the command
Of some cavalry and infantry ordered out
for the protection OF the frontier, obtain
ed permission Of the governor OF this
state to burn Phelemie's aud Iloponnie's
towns, which general Jackson had passed
near and permitted to stand, and with
this command wished to immortaliSe his
name. lin which fear he has too fatally
,ucceeded) went on, disregarding orders,
permission and nstructions-leit Pie.
emiei town to his lett on the river
topped 10 miles short of Hoponnief,
Ind common ed most wanton and un-
attack on the old men, the NO.
men and children of town, the friend
hip Of whose inhabitants to the people Of
the United States had never been doubt
ID since the revolution, and whose war.
,iors, with the exception Of a few who
we're out hunting, followed Jackson to
he field to chastise the enemies of our
country. who literally shared in the IA
igues and privations Of the campaign,
md were actually in the service Of the
United States when this band, more bar.
'arous than the most savage Indians,
we're firing on their mothers, their wives,
md their children, who were remaining
t their homes secure in protection from
he whites, and PARTICIPATING no solicitude
My for the return Of their sons, their
husbands and their brothers, and antici-
'ating the happiness which that event
would bring with it; and while their old
hief, whose sivery head and totteriny
limbs might have begctten pity even in
he most savage beast of the forest, aud
whose services to the courtry should
ave procured the good will Of all. stood
exposed to the fire Of a whole battalion
With the flag of peace extended, begging
'r mercy, and making the most solemn
sseverations OF his peaceable intentions,
nd that he wished no war Even after
e had fallen on his knees, he held the
az extended and begg d for mercy, but
stopped not here-he was g.
ain fired at, and after they had murder