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mitted outrages on the Indians, but they could not 

 be executed. Often the border people themselves 

 interfered to prevent such outrages, or expressed dis- 

 approval of them, and rescued the victims ; but they 

 never visited the criminals with the stern and ruth- 

 less punishment which alone would have availed to 

 check the crimes. For this failure they must receive 

 hearty condemnation, and be adjudged to have for- 

 feited much of the respect to which they were other- 

 wise entitled by their strong traits and their deeds 

 of daring. In the same way, but to an even greater 

 degree, the peaceful Indians always failed to punish 

 or restrain their brethren who were bent on mur- 

 der and plunder; and the braves who went on the 

 warpath made no discrimination between good and 

 bad, strong and weak, man and woman, young and 

 old. 



One of the sufferers was General Joseph Martin, 

 who had always been a firm friend of the red race, 

 and had earnestly striven to secure justice for 

 them. 13 He had gone for a few days to his plan- 

 tation on the borders of Georgia, and during his 

 visit the place was attacked by a Creek war party. 

 They drove away his horses and wounded his over- 

 seer ; but he managed to get into his house and stood 

 at bay, shooting one warrior and beating off the 

 others. 



Among many attacks on the boats that went down 

 the Tennessee it happens that a full record has been 

 kept of one. A North Carolinian, named Brown, 



18 American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I. Martin 

 to Knox, Jan. 15, 1789. 



