Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-01

1 defeated. Probably it puzzled them t.
see the representative OF the king fight
| ing them because they were making
| rcprisals on those who were Showins
a contemptuous disregard for his ma
| jestys commands about their hunting
grounds. But then. the Indians of tho
trans Allegheny country never coulC
understand the white man. First came
the Frenchman, and after him the
English, Then for century and u
half the F'renchman and the English
man fought for the land that was tho
Indians And after the EngliShman
won the offspring of the EngIishmen
kicked out the victor.
THE HAIR BUYER.
In this Lord Dunmore war George
Rogers Clark saw his first military
service. In the peace terms the Indians
gave up their interests in the hunting
grounds of Kentucky. It was not long
after this Lord Dunmore war closed
that the War of the Revolution began.
Then the Indian had an opportunity for
retaliation. At the British post of Dc
trot there was stationed Lieut. Gov
Henry Hamilton. a clever. resolute and
brutal man. who had an abiding hatred
Tor the people who were trying to throw
OFF the British yoke. He called together
the Sioux. the Chippewas. the Sax and
the Foxes. the Wlnnebagos, the Potta-
watomis and other Indians, armed and
proyisioned them. and turning them
loose on the colonists OF. the borderland,
promised them a certain reward for
every scalp they brought in Hamilton
practically was acting within orders
from Lord George Germain. the minis
ter in London, in so doing. Lord George
hnl ott f,,z-
as the front door of the colonist's home.
and he saw in this indian warfare a
curtailment of recruits in the Continen-
tai army. To show his sympathy with
the Indians. Hamilton is said to have
joined them in their scalp dances and
their blood songs and to have sat in
council with them while they planned
their various attacks. IT was not long
before his purchase of the scalps of the
American farmers earned for him the
name of THE Hair Buyer" Bands OF
his Indians swooped down into Ken
lucky, burning homes, torturlng prison.
ers and committing numerous horrors
So widespread were their raids that all
but 800 or 600 whites fled from the ter
rltory, and these people were within
easy reach OF the little frontier forts al
Harrodsburg. Boonesboro. Prices and
Logan's
This was the condition when, In Aug
ust, 1IlI, George Rogers Clark left Ken
lucky and went to Williamsburg, then
the capital OF Virginia, to Law n plan
before Patrick Henry, the governor,
which he believed not only would re-
lieve the frontier of the Indian menace.
but break the power of England
throughout the northwest. In effect he
told Patrick Henry this; "The British
nave posts at Detroit. Mackinac, Vim
cennes. Kaskaskla and Cahokia. l have
reliable adVices that with the exception
OF Detroit the posts are not strongly
guarded. They have no thought of he.
Ing attacked. With a force of 500 men
L can capture some II not all of these
posts. But all depends on secrecy. Fur
nish the powder and ball for the expe-
dltion, give me the money to raise the
men and will attend to the rest"
PATRICK HENRY.
II must be appreciated that at tb,e
time even Virginia did not have oIaar
claim to the Kentucky territory. Penn
syIVama had some designs on Iands
beyond the Allcghanles and 81 dId
North Carolina There even was n nrj-
'ate project to set up an lndependent
state TO be called Transylyania Rnt
neither Patrick Henry nor George Roo-
erS Clark thought go much of stale
claims as they did OF the national VOL
lare. They realized fully that the suc-
cess OF the enterprise would mean nor
ohiy the suppression of the Indian
rSlius' out the establishment of posses
sion OF the whole northwest. which In
the event of the recognition of indencnd.
ence would add all that territory to
the Is original states.
Henry entered into the project beart
and soul The utmost secrecy vac nec.
essary 10 success Ir ever a secret was
meii kept that one was. 1t is doubtful
II tnc members OF the general assembly
WHO voted Tor the supplies knew what
thsS were intended for. Clark WAS COM
mlSsioned a lieutenant colonel in lam.
ary' 1913. and in May of that wear he
Ieit the Alleghany river with a party
ol ABOUT $50 That was all he could
iaiSe' rev, II any, of the nren knew
'nS !edl purpose In which they were
enlisted. 1t had been difficult indeed
Tor Clark to get recruits. There was
vigorous opposition from many quar-
ters. soldiers were needed for the Con-
,lncntal army. and patriotic people saw
sNou material going west that IL seemed
70 them should go east. Others thought
lhe lrontiersmen were needed to defend
me mountain valleys. There was oppo-
sltion. too. from those who suspected
some political or private design in the
trip Of the men. So much OF an nm
roar was created that vigorous efforts
were made to get the men to desert.
When Clark finally got his little army
ABOARD ilatboats 1t made n queer nm
pearance There were no uniforms
Many OF the volunteers were Scotch
Irish and some of them were In J,ob
land costume Others wore buckskIn or
homeSpun outfits. with moccasins in
stead OF shoes. All were well armed
and nearly all were fine marksmen.
DOWN THE OHIO.
War parties of Indians were plentiful
In the Ohio River country, but Clark's