An account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha Red Jacket and his people, 1750-1830

sit of Thayendanegea-Council at Au Glaize-Result-Another commission-Indian diplomacy-Washington's letter to Mr. Jay-Commission goes West-Various i

ppropriating fifteen hundred dollars annually, for the benefit of the Iroquois, in purchasing for them clothing

m the reports of the commissioners, it was supposed the lands had been fairly obtained;-that under this supposition large tracts had been sold, and hence difficult to restore again; but as the United States desire only what is just, they will attentively hear the complaints of the western Indians;-they will re-examine the treaties, and inquire into the manner in which they were cond

ip and esteem, gave Red Jacket a large silver medal bearing his likeness, wh

EORGE WASHINGTON

s being civil, rather than military officers. He desired therefore that another suit be prepared, which would accord better with the relation he sustained to his people; at the same time declaring the one sent very good, and manifesting a disposition to retain it, until the other was prepared. A plain suit was accordingly prepared and brought to him, and with this he seemed to be highly pleased. The bearer tarrying a littl

est that had been taken in the improvement of their people, and the pledges they had received of aid in carrying out the benevolent designs entertained toward them.

my desire to promote their prosperity, by teaching them the use of domestic animals, and the manner that the white people plough and raise so much corn, and if upon consideration, it would be ag

by the officers of the British government in Canada, who strenuously opposed his coming, it has since been ascertained that he was the leading spirit who directed with so much success to the Indians, the onslaught upon General St. Clair's army, the preceding fall. Hence his own fe

rie, in the autumn of 1792. A large delegation from the Six Nations, friendly to the United States, was present and took part in the deliberation

induced them to form a great confederacy, a few years before, and of having come to the council now, "with the v

horse-stealing, and while hostilities were continued,

depended upon the following of the entire body, composed of the Six Nations, and when he saw them coming largely under the influence of the United States, he could realize that the strength and permanence of his contemplated position, were so seriously affected, as to render its attainment extremely doubtful. The addition of the entire Iroquois family, to the

during the winter, provided the United States would withdraw their troops from the west side of t

and the agreement to meet in the spring, and requested that agents might be sent, "who were men of honesty, not land-jobbers,

dolph and Colonel Pickering were commissioned by the president to at

d States, that did not concede the Ohio river, as the boundary line between them, and the Indian country. They desired the United States to be fully apprised of this, before sending their delegation; and they notified the Six Nations of a private council at Miami Ra

sult from the conduct of agents of Great Britain in this country. In vain is it then for its administration in Britain to disavow having given orders which will warrant such conduct, whilst their agents go unpunished; while we have a thousand corroborating circumstances, and indeed as many evidences, some of which cannot be brought forward, to prove that they are seducing from our alliances, and endeavoring to remove over the line, tribes that have hitherto been kept in peace and friendship at great expen

est, proceeded on their way, arriving at Niagara the latter part of May, 1793. Here they w

ey were authorized to run and establish a new boundary? Which they answered in the affirmative, at the same time reminding the Indians that i

guine hopes were entertained of a fa

ared to receive them, proceeded on their voyage westward. Arriving at the mouth of Detroit river they were o

he boundary line between the Indian country and the United States, and requiring the latter, if sincere in their desires for peace, t

giving a brief history of the treaties by which a title had been acquired to land north of the Ohio, on the faith of which, settlement

the basis of these treaties, closing with some concessions,

ttlements already made north of the Ohio, they regarded as reasonable, and that farther concessions ought not to be required. Quite a number of tribes were influenced to adopt this view, which at one time it was thought wou

untiring energy and vigilance; a larger number of soldiers had been called into the field, and as they were placed under a sever

ire in his soldiers a feeling of self reliance, General Wayne, on the 27th of November, 1792, marched his army to a point twe

at Legionville, and led his army down the river, to Fort Washington, its

n, he took a more advanced position, marching in October in the direction pursued by, General St. Clair, to a point on the south-w

ceding November, had sustained a terrible defeat. Here they gathered up sadly and sacredly the bones that marked this as a place of human slaughter, put in order the field-pieces th

my that were not serious, but they served to create conf

the most active and brave warriors of his time. He counselled his countrymen to think favorably of the proposals of peace offered by General Wayne before giving them battle; saying,-"We have beaten the enemy twice under separate commanders. We cannot expect the same good fortune always to attend us. The Americans are no

fought in the vicinity of a British fort, which Governor Simcoe of Canada had caused to be erected at the foot

r peculiar mode of warfare. But the order of General Wayne to advance with trailed arms, and rouse the Indians from their covert at the point of the bayonet, and when up deliver a close and well directed fire on their backs, followed by a brisk charge, so as n

d unable to make a general rally. The distrust awakened by the coolness of their supposed friends, the gates of whose fort remained unopene

influence had been exerted in promoting these hostilities, whose effects were now being experienced. The fort itself was poised in the General's mind, as was also the torch of the gunner, who was only restrained by his commanding officer from firing upo

dian country during the following year, bringing his campaign to a close by a treaty with