Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1819-01-07

on his arrival, lac is found seizing unoI
Arbuthnots goods, and distributing then
among the Negroes and Indians seizin,
upon his vessel, AN | compelling its mas
ter 10 pilot him, with body OF arme,
negroes, towards The Fort of ST. Marks
with The declared purpose of taking il b,
surprize in The night. Writing i.iiers {,
Gov. Cameron, OF New Pro, Iiencc, ur
gently calling for supplies OF muniiion,
oi MAR, aud of cannon, for the " ar aga'ns
Tie Americans and letters 10 COione
Nichols, renewing The same demands al
supplies; informing him, that he is with
500 negroes, few of our Bluff people,
wso had stuck to the crmse, and were rely.
ing upon the faith of Nichols promises
Our Bluff people were the people Of the
Negro fort, collected by Nicholas, and
WoOdbine's proclamations, during In
Ar'erican aud English war; and the
cause 10 which, they stuck WAS the savage,
servile, eAfermt,aiing war against the
United States.
Among the agents aud actors of such
virtuous entcrpriZrs as are here unveiled
twas hardly expected that there would be
found remarkable evidences of their re
spect, confidence and good faith towards
one another. Accordingly, besides the
Violent seizure and distribution, by AM
hrsicr, OF Arbuihuot's properly, his let
tcrs Ia Governor Cameron, and TO Nj
cholls, are filled with the dis,rusi and
suspicious of the Indians, that they were
deceived aud betrayed hy Arbuihnot
while in Arbuthnoi's letters to the same
Nichols, he accuses Woodbine Cr hay
XLIX. f. ing taken charge OF poor Fran
els, the prophet. o. Hilas IIidlio, upon his
return from England To New Providence,
and under rretegce of taking care Of him
and his af!airs-of having dcirauded him
Of large portion OF the presents which
had been delivered out from the king 5
stores 10 him, for Francis's use. This is
ALViil. al ore OF the passages of Ar
buti,noi's ieiier,o Nichols, omitted in The
publication OF il hast August, in The Lon
don newspapers.
Is iIis narrative of dark aud compli-
Gated depravity; thus creeping aud insi-
dous war, both against Spain and the D.
States; this mocsery OF patriotism =
these political phIiers 10 fugitive slaves
and Indian outlaws (; these pertidies
and treacheries of villains incapable OF
keeping their faith even 10 each other,
all in The name OF South American Ii
berry, of The rights OF runaway Ne
groes, and the wrongs of savage MUIR
derers-all combined and ~ jected TO
plumber Spain of her provinces, and 10
spread massacre and devastation along
The borders of the United States is all
this sufficient to cool the sympatiiies of
his Catholic Majes,y's government excii-
ed by the execution of these two sub
jecis of a power in amity with the king e.
Tile Spanish government is not al this day
10 be informed that, cruel as war in lis
mildest forms must he, il is, and necessa-
rily must be dOubly cruel, when waged
with savages; that savages make no
prisoners, but 10 torture them: that
they give 10 quarter; that they put
10 death without discrimination of age
or sex that these ordinary characte-
ristics of Indian warfare have been
applicable, i'll their most heart slckening
horrors, to that war, left us by Nichols,
as his legacy, reinstlgated by Woedbine,
Arbuthnoi and Ambrister, and stimulated
by the appreciation, encouragement, and
aid of the Spanish commandment at ST.
Marks. Is proof required lnireat the
Spanish minister of stale, Tor a moment,
10 overcome the feelings which details
like these must excite, and Ia reflect, II
possible, with composure. upon the facts
stated in the following extracts from the
documenis enclosed.
Letter from sailing master Jairus Loo
mis- To Commodore Daniel / Patterson,
18th August, 1916, reporting the destruc-
AXIiI. lion of The Negro Fort.
'' On examining the prisoners, they
" stated tina, Edward Daniels, @. ;. who
:" was made prisoner III the boat, on the
" 18th JULY, WaS ta,ved and burnt aiire."
Letter from Archibald CLARKE 10 Gen.
Gaines, Goth Feb. 1917. (Message OF tie
President Of the United States TO Com-
gress, 25ih March, 1918, p. o.
On the 24ih inst lie house Of Mr.
Garrett, residing III the upper part oi
" this country, near the boundary oil
Wayne county, Georgia. was attacked
&c during his absence, near the middle oi
g the day, by this party,(of iudians) con
sistiUg of about fifteen, WHO shot Mrs
Garrett, III Two places, and then dis
" patched her by siabbing and scalplng
Hcriwo children, one about three years
and HE other two months, were also
murdered aud The eldest scalped The
house Was then plundered of every ar.
iicle Of value, and set on fire."
LXI.I Letter from Peter b. Cook, (Ar-
buthnoi's clerk TO Eliz. A. Carney, al
Nassau, dated Suw aimee, 10Th Jan. 1918
sWipgan account OF their operations Will
The indians, against tie Americans, and
their massacre of Lieutenant Scott and
his party.
There was boat that was taken BY
" The Indians, that had in thirty men. Sc
ven women, four small children. There
were six Of the men got clear, and one
" woman saved. and all The rest Of them
"got killed. The chlldreo were took by
" the leg. and their brains dashed out
gainst the boat"
1.-THE bare recital of scenes like these
cannot be perused without shudderlng
what must be The agonized feelings Of
those whose wives and children are, IRON
day TO day, and from night TO night, cx-