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warned, that he was but giving the Cherokees occa-
sion to boast throughout the wilderness in their own towns, and among the Choctaws, the Chickasaws, and the Creeks, of their having obliged the English army to retreat, not from their mountains only but from the province, shunned the path of duty, and leaving four companies of Royal Scots, sailed for Halifax by way of New York; for, wrote he, ‘I cannot help the people's fears.’
And afterwards, in his place in the House of Commons, he acted as one who thought the Americans factious in peace and feeble in war.
Ellis, the governor of Georgia, wiser than Lyttleton, had been less peremptory with the Creeks, and had been able to secure their good will.1
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1859.
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