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he did amounted to but little, for his influence had 

 greatly waned, and in 1793 he died. 



On the Georgia frontier the backwoodsmen were 

 very rough and lawless, and were always prone to 

 make aggressions on the red men ; nevertheless, even 

 in the case of Georgia in 1791 and '92, the chief fault 

 lay with the Indians. They refused to make good 

 the land cession which they had solemnly guaran- 

 teed at the treaty of New York, and which certain 

 of their towns had previously covenanted to make 

 in the various more or less fraudulent treaties en- 

 tered into with the State of Georgia separately. In 

 addition to this their plundering parties continually 

 went among the Georgians. The latter, in their ef- 

 forts to retaliate, struck the hostile and the peaceful 

 alike ; and as time went on they made ready to take 

 forcible possession of the lands they coveted, with- 

 out regard to whether or not these lands had been 

 ceded in fair treaty. 



In the Tennessee country the wrong was wholly 

 with the Indians. Some of the chiefs of the Chero- 

 kees went to Philadelphia at the beginning of the 

 year 1792 to request certain modifications of the 

 treaty of Holston, notably an increase in their an- 

 nuity, which was granted. 38 The General Govern- 

 ment had conducted the treaties in good faith and 

 had given the Indians what they asked. The fron- 

 tiersmen did not molest them in any way or tres- 

 pass upon their lands; yet their ravages continued 

 without cessation. The authorities at Washington 



38 Do., Secretary of War to Governor Blount, Jan. 31, 1792. 



