Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-04-22

fourteenth article promises TO carry
into full execution what is stipulated
in the treaty by both parties with good
faith and sincerity. Permit us to ask
now, does it denote good faith or prove
sincerity to inoite the Chickasaws to
commence war against the Creeks,
with the palpahle view that they being
less numerous than the Creeks, may be
under the necess ty to ask the protec.
tion of Gov. Blount and his troops, and
to give them good occasion OF asking
in recompense from the Chickasaws,
lands to form an establishment at the
Ecores Amarges bitter, and have a
source whence to incommode and in.
tercept the communications between
New Orleans and the establishments
of Spain, ut the Illinois and New
Madrid, practiced with barks, which
by the eddy. formed there by the river
Mississippi, must pass within pistol
shot of point which commands the
river at that place. With this object
and proceeding to the said place, said
they, a son of Gen Robertson passed
by New Madrid on May Z, and about
that time had already passed several
Americans tn the same post. Does it
argue good faith and sincerity, they
said, towards the Creeks, to succor the
Chickasaw nation with portion of
corn, that they might with the greater
convenience pursue the war, which the
son of Gen. Robertson carried with
him, and moreover a piece of artillery,
the use of which the Indians never
knew and always feared. The Gov.
ernor of New Madrid, they said, saw
all this with his own eyes, and was
confirmed by many Indians of the
Chickasaw nation, who went with the
same young man, Mr.. Robertson, who
confessed that Congress had ordered
this cannon, at present declaration
which intim ates that it is contemplated
to furnish them with more. They
spake of the Creeks as their allies, and
of the improperly there was that the
United States should meddle with
them. They foretold continuance
of peace and friendship between the
two Governments. Upon the matters
OF this letter, overlooking the agents
who wrote it, and preserving as to
them perfect silence, instructions
were given to the American ministers
at Madrid what answers to give. With
respect to the charge of exciting the
Chickasaws to war against the Greeks,
it was denied, but if it were true, said
the Secretary of State, Mr.. Jefferson,
it would not be unjustifiabIe. The
Creeks, said he, have now second
time commenced against us wanton
and unprovoked war; and the present
one in the face of a recent treaty, and
of the most friendly and charitable
offices on our part. There would he
nothing then out OF the common course
of proceedings, for us to engage others,
if we needed any for their punishment
But we neither need nor have sought
them. The fact itself is utterly false,
and We defy the world tn produce a
single proof of it. The declaration
of war by the Chickasaws as we are
informed was very sudden thing,
produced by the murder of some of
their people by party of Creeks, and
produced so instantaneously, as to give
nobody time to interfere, either to
promote or to prevent rupture. The
gift of provisions was but an act of
friendship to them when in the same
distress, which had induced us to give
five times as much to the less friendly
nation of the Creeks. We have given
arms to them. 1t is the practice of
every white nation to give arms to the
neighboring Indians. The agents of
Spain have done it abundantly, and
this for the purpose of avowed hostility
on US. And they have been liberal in
promises of further supplies. We have
given few arms to very friendly
tribe, not to make war on Spain, but
to defend themselves from the atroci.
ties of vastly more numerous and
powerful people, and one which by a
series of unprovoked and even unre-
PEELED attacks on us, in obliging us to
look towards war as the only means
left of curbing their insolence. The
design to make an establishment on
the Mississippi was denied, and the
interference of the Spaniards with the
Indian tribes who live within the
borders of the United States. was
treated as extremely unjustifiable aud
against usage. And as to the discop.
tinuance of peace it was asked, are
we to understand that if we arm to
repel the attacks of the Creeks on our
selves, it will disturb our peace with
Spain? That if we will not let them
butcher us without resistance Spain
will consider it as cause of war. We
love and we value peace; we know its
blessings from experience. We abhor
the folIies of war, and are not untried
in its disasters and calamities. If we
are forced into contrary order OF
things, our mind is made up. We con.
fide in our strength, without boasting
of it; we respect that of others without
feeling il. If we can not otherwise
prevail on the Creeks to discon tinue