: • REMARKS, 203 
youred to repel their attacks, and slmt them 
with as much unconcern as they would either 
a wolf or a bear. In their expeditions against 
the white settlers the Indians frequently were 
driven back with loss ; but their ill success 
only urged them to return with redoubled 
fury, and their welf-known revengeful dispo¬ 
sition leading them on all occasions to seek 
blood for blood, they were not merely satisfied 
with murdering the whole families of the set¬ 
tlers who had wounded or killed their chiefs or 
warriors, but oftentimes, in order to appease 
the manes of their comrades, they crossed their 
boundary line in turn, and committed most 
dreadful depredations amopgst the peaceable 
white inhabitants in the States, who were in 
po manner implicated in the ill conduct of the 
men who had encroached upon the Indian 
territories. Here also, if they happened to be 
repulsed, or to lose a friend, they returned to 
seek fresh revenge; and as it seldom happened 
that they did escape without loss, their ex¬ 
cesses and barbarities, instead of diminishing, 
were becoming greater every year. The at- 
tention of the government was at last directed 
towards the melancholy situation of the set¬ 
tlers on the frontiers, and the result was, that 
congress determined that an army should be 
raised, at the expence of the States, to repel 
fbe foe. 
