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Show 188 LIFE OF GEN. JACKSON. CHAP.tered into, a long time ago, with father Washington, ~might not be broken. To his friendly arm I hold 1814• fast. I will never break that chain of fi·iendship we made together, and which bound us to stand to the United States. He was a father to the Muscoga people; and not only to them, but to all the people beneath the sun. His talk I now hold in my hand. There sits the agent he sent among us. Never bas he broken the treaty. He has lived with us a long time. He has seen our children born, who now have children. By his direction, cloth was wove, and clothes were made, and spread through our country ; but the red sticks came, and destroyed all,-we have none now. Hard is our situation, and you ought to consider it. I state what all the nation knows : nothing will I keep secret. "There is the Little Warrior, whom colonel Hawkins knows. While we were giving satisfaction for the murders that had been committed, he proved a mischief-maker ; he went to the British on the lakes; he came back, and brought a package to the frontiers, which increased the murders here. This conduct has already made the war party to suffer greatly: but, a~· though almost destroyed, they will not yet open thetr eyes, but are still led away by the British at Pensacola. Not so with us : we were rational, and had our senses -we yet are so. In the war of the revolution, our father beyond the waters, encouraged us to join him, and we did so. We had no sense then. The pro· miscs he made were never kept. We were young and foolish, and fought with him. The British can no more persuade us to do wrong : they have de· LIFE OF GEN. JACKSON. 189 ceived us once, and can deceive us no more. YOli CHAP. are two great people. If you go to war, we will~ have no concern in it; for we are not able to fight. lSl 4. We wish to be at peace with every nation. If they offer me arms, I will say to them, You put me in danger, to war against a people born in our own land. They shall never force us into danger. You shall ne-ver see that our chiefs are boys in council, who will be forced to do any thing. I talk thus, knowing that fa-ther vVashington advised us never to interfere in wars. He told us that those in peace were the happiest peo-ple. He told us that if an enemy attacked him he had warriors enough, and did not wish his red children to. help him. If the British advise us to any thing, I wtll tell you,-not hide it from you. If they say we must fight, I will tell them, No!" The war party not being entirely subclued, was but a pret~xt to avoid the demand ; presuming that if the c?une1l should break up, without any thing being defimte: y done, they might, in part, or perhaps altogether, avmd what '~as now required ; but the inflexibility of the person wtth whom they were treating, evinced to the~, t~at .however ju~t and well-founded might be thetr obJeCtiOns, the pohcy under which he acted was too clearly defined, for an abandonment of his demand to. be at all calculated upon. Shelocta, one of their cluefs, who had united with our troops, at the comm. encement. of the war; who had marched and fou ht \~tth them m all their ~attles ; and had attached g to htmself strongly the confidence of the commandin general, now addressed him. He told him of the re~ gard he had ever felt for his white brothers, and with |