Conquest of the country northwest of the river Ohio, 1778-1783 : and, life of Gen George Rogers Clark . ng proposition to Colonel Clark: HAMILTON TO COL. CLARK. (Fac-simile reduced one-half.) jLn,*. ?? Sty. -^^r **^W us^tt*^ ^&* ~&~ u Referring to this letter, Clark says : I was at a great lossto conceive what reason Lieutenant-Governor Hamiltoncould have for wishing a truce of three days, on such termsas he proposed. Numbers said it was a scheme to get meinto their possession. I had a different opinion, and noidea of his possessing sach sentiments, as an act of that22 338 TRUCE DECLI
Conquest of the country northwest of the river Ohio, 1778-1783 : and, life of Gen George Rogers Clark . ng proposition to Colonel Clark: HAMILTON TO COL. CLARK. (Fac-simile reduced one-half.) jLn,*. ?? Sty. -^^r **^W us^tt*^ ^&* ~&~ u Referring to this letter, Clark says : I was at a great lossto conceive what reason Lieutenant-Governor Hamiltoncould have for wishing a truce of three days, on such termsas he proposed. Numbers said it was a scheme to get meinto their possession. I had a different opinion, and noidea of his possessing sach sentiments, as an act of that22 338 TRUCE DECLINED BUT CONFERENCE GRANTED. nature would infallibly ruin him, but was convinced thathe had some prospect of succor, or of otherwise extricatinghimself. Although we had the greater reason to expect are-enforcement in less than three days that would at onceput an end, I yet did not think it prudent to agree to theproposals, and sent the following answer : COLONEL CLARKS REPLY r * fet-n 4%*% 7^/^ ipias>ri%j> uiaJ_j( /rt*^ ^^/u^ ft LX<M4^) urt^L Jg& S^^ -ft* *Sl£t ^Aa %*~/7 The flag having returned,1 says Hamilton, the firing *The original letter of Hamilton and this reply of Clark are in the Drapercollection of manuscripts, Wisconsin Historical Society. HAMILTON S ACCOUNT OF THE NEGOTIATIONS. 339 recommenced. Lamothes volunteers now began to mur-mur, saying it was very hard to be obliged to right againsttheir countrymen and relatives, who they now perceived hadjoined the Americans. As they made half our number,and after such a declaration were not to be trusted. The Englishmen wounded, six in number, were a sixthof those we could depend on, and duty would every hourfall heavier on the remaining few; considering we were atthe distance of six hundred miles from succor, that if wedid not burn the village we left the enemy most advan-tageous cover against us, and that if we did, we had noth-ing to expect after rejecting the first terms but theextremity of revenge, I took
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