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dians through their towns. 82 The Chickasaws also 

 had become embroiled with the Creeks. 83 For over 

 three years they carried on an intermittent warfare 

 with them, and were heartily supported by the fron- 

 tiersmen, who were prompt to recognize the value 

 of their services. At the same time the hostile In- 

 dians were much cowed at the news of Wayne's 

 victory in the North. 



All these causes combined to make the Creeks sue 

 for peace. To its shame and discredit the United 

 States Government at first proposed to repeat to- 

 ward the Chickasaws the treachery of which the 

 British had just been guilty to the Northern In- 

 dians ; for it refused to defend them from the Creeks, 

 against whom they had been acting, partly, it is 

 true, for their own ends, but partly in the interest 

 of the settlers. The frontiersmen, however, took a 

 much more just and generous view of the affair. 

 Mansker and a number of the best fighters in the 

 Cumberland district marched to the assistance of 

 the Chickasaws; and the frontier militia generally 

 showed grateful appreciation of the way both the 

 Upper Cherokees and the Chickasaws helped them 

 put a stop to the hostilities of the Chickamaugas and 

 Creeks. Robertson got the Choctaws to interfere on 

 behalf of the Chickasaws and to threaten war with 

 the Creeks if the latter persisted in their hostilities. 

 Moreover, the United States agents, when the treaty 



84 Robertson MSS., Ecooe to John McKee, Tellico, Feb. i, 

 1795, etc. 

 83 Blount MSS., James Colbert to Robertson, Feb. 10, 1792. 



