The centennial anniversary of the city of Hamilton, Ohio . the Indians. It called a council in the fall of 1785 to meet at the mouth ofthe Great Miami River, near where Lawrenceburg, Indiana now stands, andappointed commissioners to meet and treat with the Indians. The Englishagents called a council of Indians to meet at the same time near the presenttown of Bellefontaine, in Eogan County, Ohio, to prevent their attendanceat the council appointed by our government ; and so powerful were the in-fluences of the British agents, backed by vast presents to the Indians, thatbut one tribe, the Shawan
The centennial anniversary of the city of Hamilton, Ohio . the Indians. It called a council in the fall of 1785 to meet at the mouth ofthe Great Miami River, near where Lawrenceburg, Indiana now stands, andappointed commissioners to meet and treat with the Indians. The Englishagents called a council of Indians to meet at the same time near the presenttown of Bellefontaine, in Eogan County, Ohio, to prevent their attendanceat the council appointed by our government ; and so powerful were the in-fluences of the British agents, backed by vast presents to the Indians, thatbut one tribe, the Shawanese, subscribed to the treaty, and through the sameinfluence, this tribe went on the warpath against the Americans within sixmonths after they had agreed to the treaty with the United States commis-sioners at the mouth of the Great Miami. In the fall of 1783, shortly after the treaty of peace with Great Britainwas signed and with a full knowledge of that treaty, Sir John Johnson,British Superintendent, General of Indian affairs, assembled all the western. GEN. F. VanDEVP:ER. THE CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF HAMILTON, O. 19 tribes in council at Sandusky; when he made a powerful appeal to them tostand up for their rights against the Americans ; urged them to take up thehatchet again rather than yield to the Americans. In June 1785 he called another general council of all Indians he couldprevail upon to attend at Niagara, for the same purpose, and to preventthem attending the council at the mouth of the Great Miami which had beencalled by our government. The council held at Bellefontaine was after theNiagara council and was called, no doubt, with the full concurrence of SirJohn Johnson. Through these influences, as before stated, but one tribe consented to thetreaty of Fort Finney, as it is known in history ; while the Delawares,Wyandots, Mingoes, Cherokees, Pottowottamies, Kickapoos and fox nationswere kept away. The most active agents in all these councils on the partof Britain wer
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