Pictorial life of Andrew Jackson . cipal village, Jacksonfound more than fifty fresh scalps, and in the centreof the town, the old Red-stick standard stood crownedwith the scalps, recognised by the hair as those tornfrom the heads of the unfortunate companions of Lieu-tenant Scott. Hearing that a body of five hundred negroes andIndians had approached St. Marks, and having beenrefused admittance, had demanded its surrender; andknowing the duplicity of Luengo, the governor, whonow pretended friendship for the Americans, while ashort time before he had, to the best of his ability,aided and protec
Pictorial life of Andrew Jackson . cipal village, Jacksonfound more than fifty fresh scalps, and in the centreof the town, the old Red-stick standard stood crownedwith the scalps, recognised by the hair as those tornfrom the heads of the unfortunate companions of Lieu-tenant Scott. Hearing that a body of five hundred negroes andIndians had approached St. Marks, and having beenrefused admittance, had demanded its surrender; andknowing the duplicity of Luengo, the governor, whonow pretended friendship for the Americans, while ashort time before he had, to the best of his ability,aided and protected their enemies—knoAving thesethings. General Jackson left MIntosh with his war-riors to scour the country in the neighbourhood ofthe Mickasuky village, and hastened to prevent thesurrender of the strong post of St. Marks to the ene-mies of the United States. From the moment thatthe Negro-Indian fort was destroyed, St. Marks hadbecome the depot and storehouse of the their councils were held, there they sold their. CAPTURE OF ST. MARKS. 399 bloody trophies, torn from murdered Americans, andthere they received the instruments and means offuture murders. Luengo was the adviser, aider, andprotector of the savages, and the friend and coadjutorof Alexander Arbuthnot, a noted instigator of theIndians to hostility. When Jackson appears on thescene, Luengo changes his tone; he declares that hehad acted in this way only from policy; and now,from an associate of the Indians, he becomes the friendof the Americans, and evinces a sycophancy whichevery brave man cannot but despise. He concludesa letter to General Jackson in these words, MayGod preserve your excellency, is my prayer. I kissyour excellencys hand, and am your most faithfuland obedient servant.* (^t. Marks was now threatened by the hostile In-dians and negroes, and the Spanish garrison wasunable to defend it against them. It was thereforenecessary to occupy it with an American garrison, toprevent it from falling
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