Pictorial life of Andrew Jackson . this letter he says:— I have ordered the Indians to stand on the defensive,and have sent them a large supply of arms and am-munition; and told them to put to death, withoutmercy, any one molesting them. They have con-sented to wait your answer before they take , sir, they are impatient for it, well armed asthe whole nation now is, and stored with ammunitionand provisions, having a strong hold to retire to, incase of a superior force appearing. * I am also desired to say to you, by the chiefs,that they do not find that your citizens are evacuatingth
Pictorial life of Andrew Jackson . this letter he says:— I have ordered the Indians to stand on the defensive,and have sent them a large supply of arms and am-munition; and told them to put to death, withoutmercy, any one molesting them. They have con-sented to wait your answer before they take , sir, they are impatient for it, well armed asthe whole nation now is, and stored with ammunitionand provisions, having a strong hold to retire to, incase of a superior force appearing. * I am also desired to say to you, by the chiefs,that they do not find that your citizens are evacuatingtheir lands, according to the ninth article of the treatyof peace; but that they were fresh provisioning theforts. They also request me to inform you, that theyhave signed a treaty of offensive and defensive alliancewith Great Britain, as well as one of commerce andnavigation; which, as soon as ratified at home, youshall be made more fully acquainted with. Nicholls having estabhshed his government, begins CONDITION OF FLORIDA. 381. to think of foreign alliances. He assumes the diplo-matist—is converted into a minister plenipotentiaryof hoth parties—makes, in behalf of his subjects, atreaty, offensive and defensive, and a treaty of com-merce and navigation with Great Britain, and proceedsto England to obtain their ratification. Francis Hil-lishago, one of the principal chiefs of the Seminoles,accompanied him ; and in the meantime his peoplewere left to themselves; who commanded or governedthem is not distinctly known, until the unfortunateAmbrister and Arbuthnot, the one an Englishman andthe other a Scotchman, succeeded to the is, however, well known that these desperadoeswere not inactive; that the unfortunate inhabitants ofthe frontiers of Georgia and Alabama felt tlie full 382 THE SEMINOLE WAR. weight of the vengeance threatened by Nicholls, andthat the Spanish officers beheld with perfect com-posure these atrocities committed within their ownjurisdiction. S
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