THE AMERICANS AND THE ABORIGINES. 



SCENES IN THE SHORT WAR. 

 FROM THE GERMAN OF CHARLES SEALSFIELD. 



[MAGA. MAY-JULY 1846.] 



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" I tremble for my people, when I think of the unjust acts 

 of which they have been guilty towards the aborigines." 

 JEFFERSON. 



TTP01S" the road connecting the town of Coosa with 

 vJ Milledgeville, the capital of Georgia, and near 

 to the spot where, at the present day, a convenient 

 hotel invites the traveller to repose and refreshment, 

 there stood, towards the close of the last century, 

 beneath a projecting rock, crowned with a few red 

 cedars and pine-trees, a rudely constructed but roomy 

 block-house. In front of the building, and between 

 two massive perpendicular beams, connected by cross- 

 bars, swung a large board, upon which was to be 



