NORTH AMERICA. 
what news ? They informed us that they were run- 
ning about forty kegs of Jamaica fpirits (which by 
darning would have made at lean: eighty kegs) to 
the Nation ; and after having left the town three 
or four days, they were furprifed on the road in 
the evening, jufl after thev had come to camp, by 
a party of Creeks, who discovering their fpecies of 
merchandize, they forthwith ftruck their toma- 
hawks into every keg, giving the liquor to the 
thirfty fand, not tailing a drop of it themfelves ; 
and they had enough to do to keep the tomahawks 
from their own fkulls. 
How are we to account for their excellent policy 
in civil government : it cannot derive its influence 
from coercive laws, for they have no fuch artificial 
fyftem. Divine wifdom dictates and they obey. 
We fee and know full well the direful effects of this 
torrent of evil, which has its fource in hell ; and 
we know furely, as well as thefe favages, how to 
divert its courfe and fupprefs its inundations. Do 
we want wifdom and virtue ? let our youth then 
repair to the venerable councils of the Mufcogul- 
ges. 
CHAP. 
