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hatchet will be again resumed. Indeed/a little 
time before we reached Malden, messengers 
from the southern Indians had arrived to sound 
the disposition of those who lived near the 
lake, and try if they were ready and willing to 
enter into a fresh war. Nor is this eagerness 
for war to be wondered at, when from the re¬ 
port of the commissioners, who were sent down 
by the federal government to the new state of 
Tenassee, in order to put the treaty into effect 
and to mark out the boundaries of that state 
in particular, it appeared that upwards of five 
thousand people, contrary to the stipulation of 
the treaty lately entered into with the Indians, 
had encroached upon, and settled themselves 
down in Indian territory, which people, the 
commissioners said, could not be persuaded to 
return, and in their opinion, could not be forced 
back again into the States without very great 
difficulty^. 
A large portion of the back settlers, living 
upon the Indian frontiers, are, according to 
the best of my information, far greater savages 
than the Indians themselves. It is nothing 
uncommon, I'am told, to see hung up in their 
chimney corners, or nailed against the door of 
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* The substance of this report appeared in an extract of a 
letter from Lexington in Kentucky, which I myself saw, 
and which was published in many of the newspapers in the 
United States. 
