Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1819-02-04

right OF establishing trading houses-o
The obligation of delivering iuio our hantis
their prophets. And all this, Of a wretch
ed people, reduced 10 the lasi extremity
81 distress, whose miserable existence we
had to preserve by a voluntary stipulation
10 furnish iiemwitii bread When even
! did conQuering and desolalihy Rome fail
TO t So q, The affairs aud the gods of those
whom she sHbjugaied! Let me not be
told tha' these prophets were impostors,
who deceived the Indians. They were
their propIiets-the Indians believed and
vencTated them, and il is not for us 10
dictate religious belief 10 them. Ii does
not belong To ,he holy character of the
religion which we profess, 10 carry lis
/ precrpts, by force Of the bayonst, into
The bosoms of other people. Mild and
| gentle persuasion was the great instru-
| ment employed by the meek founder of
our religion. We leave to the humane
| aud benevolent efforts OF the reverend
| professors OF Christianity to convert from
barbarism those unhappy nations yet in.-
mersed in lis gloom. But, sir, spare them
their prophets Spare their decisions
Spare their prejudices and superstiiions !!
| Spare them even their religion, such as il
is 4! from open and cruel violence. When,
sir, was that treaty concluded? On the
very day, after the protocol was signed,
| Of the first conference between the Anne
rican and British Commissioners, treating
of peace, at Client. In tile course OF that
| negotiations, pretenS,Ons so enormous
! were set up, by the other party, thai,
| when they were promulgated III This corn-
! try, there was one general burst of indig-
nation throughout the continent. Fac
1Iion itself was silenced, and the firm and
| unanimous determination of all parties
was, 10 fight until the last man fell in the
| ditcl, rather than submit 10 such ignomi
| uieus terms. What contrast is exhibit
| ed between the coiemporaneous scenes OF
| Client and of Fort Jackson: What
powerful voucher would the British Com
missioners have been furnished with. if
they conld have goi hold of that treaty
| The United States demand, The United
| States demasd, is repeated five or six times
/ And what did the preamble itself disclose
| That two thirds of the Creek nation had
| been hostile, and one third only friendly
| To us. Now, he had heard Che could not
vouch for The truth of the statement) that
not one hostile chief signed The treaty.
| He had also heard that perhaps one or
two of them had Ii the treaty really
were made by minority of the nation, il
" as moi obligatory upon the whole nation.
| Ii was void, considered in the light of
| national compact. And, if void, the In
diaus were entitled TO the benefit of The
provision Of the ninth article Of the treaty
| of Client, by which we bound ourselves
to make peace with any tribes with whom
| we might be al war OH the ratification of
the treaty, and TO restore to them isicir
lands as they held them in 1911. Mr.. c.
said he did not know how the honorable
Senate, that body for which he held so
high a respect, could have given their
sanciion to The treaty of Fort Jackson, so
utterly irreconcheable as it is with those
noble principles of generosity and ma.
nanimify which he hoped TO see his coun-
try always exhibit. aud particularly to-
| wards the miserable remnant OF the abo-
rhymes. Itwomld have comportcd better
with these principles, 10 have initiated
the benevolent policy of the iounier of
| Pennsylvania, and 10 have given 10 tile
| Creeks. conquered as they were, even if
they had made all unjust war upon us,
the irIfiing considerations, TO them AN adj
| eGuaie compensation, which he paid for
their lands. That treaty, Mr.. C. said he
! feared, had been The main cause of The
recent war. And if il had been, it only
| added another melancholy proof TO those
with winch history already abounds, that
hard aud unconscronabie terms, eAtori-
ed by the power of,lle sword and the right
! oi conquest, served but TO whct and sill
nuiaie revenge, and TO give TO old hosiil-
| HES, smoihered, not extlnguislIed, by The
! pretended peace, greater xaspeTaiion and
/ more ierocIiy. A truce Illus patched IN
win an unfortunate people, without the
| means OF existence, without bread is no
real peace. The Instant there is the
slightest prosper ofrclicifrom such harsh
aud severe conditions, thscoBqurred par.
| ~ will fly 10 arms, and spend The last
drop OF blood ralher than live in such de-
graded bondage. Even if you again re.
duce Inn 10 submission, the expences
incurred by tbs second war, To say no.
| thing OF tie human lives that are sacri-
heed, will be greater Than what il would
have cost you To- have granted him libe-
raI conditions III tile ilrsi instance. Jbi4
treaty, he repeated it,was, lie apprehend-
ed, The cause OF the war. II led 10 those
cXCesses on our southern borders which
began it. Who first commenced them.
u was perhaps difficult To- ascertain.
There was, how ever, paper on this sub
lcct, communicated al ihc last session,
by The President, that told, in language
so pathetic and feeling, an arlless tale
apdper that carried such internal evidence
al least, Of lie belief Of The authors of il
That HEY were writing The truth tina, lie
would ask the fsp OF Of The committee 10
allow him to read rs should be very
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The following is the letter from ten of the
Seminole towns, that DIR. Clay read
10 The commanding officer at Fort Haiehins
Dear Sir Siuce the last war. after you sent
word that we must quit the war We. the Red
people, rave come over OF ibis side. The white
people hare cmTied all the red peoples cutie o6r.
After the war, sent 10 all my people TO let
white people alone. ard stay on this side of the