The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1819-01-13

oecn ucilVcred out from the king stores
to him, for Francis use. This is XLYI
a. one of the passages of Arbuthnot's
letter 10 Nichols, omitted in the publica-
ton oft last August, IN the London news
papers.
Is this narrative of dark and cornplica-
ted depravity this creeping and insidu-
GUS war, both against Spain and the Uni
ted States; this mockery of patriotism !;
these political philters to fugitive slaves
and Indian outlaws; these perfidies and
treacheries of villains incapable of keep.
ing their faith even to each other; all in
the name of South American liberty, of
the rights of runaway negroes, and the
wrongs of savage murdcrers-all conibin-
ed andprojceted to plumber Spain of her
provinces, and to spread massacre and
devastation along the borders of the Uni
ted States! Is all this sufficient to cool
the sympathies OF his Catholic majesty's
government, excited by the execution of
these two "subjects of a power in an,ity
with the king?" The Spanish govern
ment is not a; this Hay to be informed,
that cruel as war, in its mildest forms
must be, 1t is, and necessarily must be,
donbiy cruel, when waged with savages;
that savagcs make no prisoners, but to-
torture them; that they give no quarter
that they put to death without discrimina-
ton OF age or sex that these ordinary.
characteristics of Indian warfare have
been applicable, in their most heart sick
eniDg horrors, to that war, LIFT us by Nj.
cholls, as his legacy, reinstigated by
Woodbine, Arbuthnot and Ambrister,
and stimulated by the appreciation, en-
enlargement, and aid of the Spanish com
mandant at st. Marks. Is proof required
intreat the Spanis,, state minister, for
moment, to overcome the feelings which
details like these must excite, and to re-
feet, it possible, with composure, upon
the facts stated IN the following extracts
from the documents enclosed;
Letter from sailing master Jairus Loo
mis- 10 commodore Daniel t. Patterson,
18th August, 1916, reporting the destiuc-
ton OF the negro XIII fort.
tsOn examining the prisoners, they sta
ted, that Edward Daniels, o. S. who was
made prisoner in the boat OH the 18th
July, was tarred and burned alive !
Letter from Archibald Clarke to Gen
Caves, Goth Feb. 1917. Message of the
President of the u. States to congress,
a5th March, 1918, PSI
"0n the Gath inst. the house of MIR.
Garrett, residing in the upper part Of this
county, near the boundary Of Wayne
county, &C eorgia) was attacked, during
his absence near the middle of the day,
by this party, (of Indians) consisting OF
about fifteen, who shot ajrs. Garrett in
two places, and then dispatched her by
stabbing and scalping. Her two children
one about three years, and the other two
months, were also murdered, and the ell
dest scalped the house was then plum
dered of every article of value, and set on
fire."
Xxi. Letter from Peter b. Cook
(Arbuthnot's clerk to Eliz. A. Carney, at
Nassau, dated SuW aimee, 18th Jan. 1918,
giving an account of their operations with
the Indians, against the Americans, and
party.
"There was boat that was taken by
The Indians, that had in thirty men, seven
women, four small children. There were
six Of the men got clear, and one woman
,.ved, and all the rest of them got killed.
Fhe children were took by the leg, ard
their brains dashed out against the boat.
1.-THE bare recital of scenes ike these
cannot be peruSed without shuddering,
What must be the agonized feelings of
those whose wives and children are, from
day to day, and from night to night, ex-
posed To be the victims of the same bar
barity? Has mercy voice to plead for
me perpetrators and instigators of deeds
ike these ?--Should inquiry hereafter be
made, why, within three months after
this event, the savage Hamathii Niece,
upon being taken by the American troops,
vas, by order of their commander, lin
inedateiy hung; let it be told, that that
savage was the commander of the party
by which those women were butchered,
and those helpless infants were thus dash
ed against the boat Contending with
such enemies, although humanity revolts
at entire retaliation uponthem, and spares
the lives of their feeble and .defenceless
women and children, yet mercy herself
suIrendcrs to retributiye justice the lives
Of their leading warriors taken ill arms
and still more the lives of the foreign,
white incendiarIes, VINO, dlsowned by their
own governments, and disowning their
own natures, degrade themselves beneath
the savage Characte,, by voluntarily de-
-. 10 81.