Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-16
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posed to enter into controversy with
me relative to our respective duties,
but recommend an examination of the
laws of Jour country before l again
hazard an openion on the subject
Your advice is good and should be al
tended to cat least) by all public Off
GERS. l hope you will now permit me
in turn to recommend to you that be-
fore you undertake to prosecute anOth-
er campaign you will examine the or
ders of your superior with more at
tention than usual.
You assert that the better part of
the community know too we'll that they
have nothing to apprehend from a
military despotism,' and in proof OF
this assertion it might have been well
for you to have called my attention %
your late proceeding at ST. Marks and
Pensacola, as affording conclusive evi-
dence on that point.
The situations of our bleeding from.
tier settlers and those who had not
understanding enough to penetrate in
to the designs of your operations. IN
deed, sir, we had expected that you:
presence at the head of an overwhelm-
ing force would have afforded complet
protection to our bleeding and distress.
ed citizens, bordering on an extensive
and unprotected frontier; but our pros
poets were only delusive, for it would
seem that the laurels expected in Flor.
ida was the object that accelerated yo
NOR than the protection of the igno.
rant Georgians.
If Col. Haynes and his three OF
four thousand Tennesseans mace :
movement for the security of the pre-
tended assaulted point of Georgia." !;
certainly was very unsuccessful one
When you shall have explained
to me by yhat authority you sent Maj
Davis to arrest Captain Wright
who was not under your command
and place him in irons, etc, then
Shall explain to you the motives which
induced me to call a reinforcement
from Fort Early.
WILLIAM RABUN.
Both of these angry correspondents
forwarded variations of the affair t.
Washington, where they are now OF
file. Captain Wright was arrested b,
John NJ. Davis, assistant inspector gen
eral, United States army, and carrie,
before Judge Williams Bevins. OF
Milledgeville, Ga. After a trial h,
was acquitted. Upon a memorial .
these Indians to the United States con
gress the small sum of eight THOUSAND
dollars was paid them for compensa
ton. The matter was then dropped
So ended the history of a f1ourishin,
Indian town.
When William Bartram in 179,
visited this wild region h,
IN 1898 visited this wild region h,
found here hospitable kindly peop!,
of whom he wrote in his great Book c
Travels. Never was there a superior
tribe of savages? They were indus
trious, frugal, thrifty and much devot
ed to agriculture.
Where on this greenearth would yo,
look for a finer example of patriotism
than that exhibited by the old chief
Major Howard, and his young son
Here was the land of their birth which
they loved with a devotion unparal
leled. Facing 23O bloodthirsty soldier:
intent on mischief they chose to die
the death of martyred patriots rattle,
than flight. In my fancy I see this old
chief sinking amidst the melancholy
clouds of three score years and ter
leading his little son by the hand witt
the flag of truce advancing to meet