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bility that I trust you will be able to excuse to the government 

 of the United States, to which you will have to answer, and 

 through which I had so recently passed, promising the aged that 

 remained at home my protection, and taking the warriors with 

 me in the campaign, is as unaccountable as strange. But 

 it is still more strange that there could exist, within the United 

 States, a cowardly monster in human shape, that could violate 

 the sanctity of a flag, when borne by any person, but more 

 particularly when in the hands of a superannuated Indian 

 chief, worn down with age. Such base cowardice and mur- 

 derous conduct, as this transaction affords, has not its parallel 

 in history, and shall meet with its merited punishment. You, 

 sir, as a Governor of a State, within my military division, 

 have no right to give a military order whilst I am in the field : 

 and this being an open and violent infringement of the treaty 

 with the Creek Indians, Capt. Wright must be prosecuted and 

 punished for this outrageous murder ; and I have ordered him 

 to be arrested and confined in irons, until the pleasure of the 

 President of the United States is known upon the subject. 

 If he has left Hartford before my orders reach him, I call upon 

 you, as Governor of Georgia, to aid me in carrying into effect 

 my order for his arrest and confinement, which I trust will be 

 afforded, and Capt. Wright brought to condign punishment for 

 this unparalleled murder. It is strange that this hero had not 

 followed the trail of the murderers of your citizens ; it would 

 have led to Mickasucky, where we found the bleeding scalps 

 of your citizens ; but there might have been more danger in 

 this, than attacking a village containing a few superannuated 

 women and men, and a few young women, without arms or 

 protectors. This act will to the last age fix a stain upon the 

 character of Georgia. 



(Signed) Andrew Jackson. 



To this letter Gov. Rabun sent the following answer : 



Executive Department, Georgia, 



Milledgeville, 1st June, 1818. 



Sir, — I have lately had the honour to receive yours of the 

 7th of May, founded on a communication from Gen. Glascock, 

 relative to the attack recently made on the Chehaw village. 



