Literary cadet and Rhode-Island statesman. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1827-1829, 1827-04-18


THE CnEEK INnIANs.--Thc calami;ics
and perse cutions which have for the last four
teen years been heapcd upon the CreckIndians,
are still continued, and it is apparent to the OBJ
server, that they, like those once famous and
powerful tribes, the Ynmy:cs and the Natchez,
arc destined to live and be tor; urcd. and at last
to meet extcrmlnation.
Twenty years ago, the Greeks were for,Ri-
dable people, skilled in all the branches Of
aboriginal' warfare, and possessing within
themselves, RESOURCES sufficient to enable them
to contend with the Most powerful hordcs Of
their rude and untutorcd ncighbors. Gifted by
nature, and. unlike most of the Indian tribes Of
the continent, given TO the cultivation Of such
Of the arts Of civilized Lie as had b.en intro
duccd among them b. the Missionaries, they
were fast approaching the higher estates Of
modern Christianity, and would have attained
them, had they not been visited by war and
desolation, and inhuinanIy massacred by band
of white men, acting under the authority Of the
United States, and headed BY the famous Gen.
ANDREW JAcKsoN.-In recurring to the re-
collection OF those times, we are sickened with
the recital of the injuries they then endured,
and the horrors they met at the hands of their
proud and arrogant invaders: who, sallying up
on them with all their forces, and all the i'm
put them to death, without mercy. and without
reference to age, sex, or condition.
| During the Creeks war of 1873, a detach-
ment of sold:eIy, under the command Of Gene
raj Coffee, was ordered by the commanding
General TO make an assault Oh the Tallushat-
ches towns, where body Of the hostile chiefs
had assembled. The order was executed, ard
on arriving at their towns or hamlets, they were
surrounded at the break Of day; and the inha-
bitants, unprepared for such an assault, start
ed from their sleep, few 10 arms, with the beat
of drums and hidcous yellmgs. The gallant
Coffee, with his no less gallant troops, in obe-
dience 10 the orders of his gallant commander,
pressed upon them; and, overpowored by num-
bers, the Creeks fled at the point Of the bayo-
4 net, 10 tnelr houses lot SaIety, Uto Wmcn tncy
were crowded, and the buildings we're fred at
the instance Of the gallant General, and hus-
bands, mothers and children, perished in the
flames, enkmdlcd by their rapacious and savage
enemies. The decd was boasted Of as one al
unequalled gallantry and inirepidity; and in
speaking Of the atchicvmcn,. in his official let
ter to the Department of War. General Jack
son remarked il was done in STYLE" and
complimcn'ed in the highest strains Of eulogy.
his gallant and efficient executing officer,
In the midst Of TINS scene Of rapine and mur-
der, the Creeks askedt not for quarters, but
with heroism, bordering on desperation, Tough,
till the last moment, and elorio,isly expired in
fecbly attempting to defend their defcncolcss
females from the criminal assaults ofthc Soldery
on their wives and daughters, and those rights
which were guaranteed them by the ruler OF
the Universe.
From that evcntful period up to the present
the Creeks have felt all the horrors Of the per-
secutons Of their white ncighbors; an attempt