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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 4: (search)
people of Virginia. New York could but remonstrate with the governor of Canada. Clinton to La Jonquiere, 12 June, 1751. The deputies of the Six Nations were the first to manifest zeal. At the appointed time in July, they came down to Albany to renew their covenant chain; and to chide the inaction of the English, which was certain to leave the wilderness to France. When the congress, which Clinton had invited to meet the Iroquois, assembled at Albany, South Carolina came also, Drayton's South Carolina, 94 and 239. Clinton to Bedford, 17 July, 1751, in New York London Documents, XXX. 16, and Clinton to Lords of Trade, same date. for the first time, to join in council with New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts,—its earliest movement towards confederation. From the Catawbas, also, hereditary foes to the Six Nations, deputies attended to hush the war-song that for so many generations had lured their chiefs along the Blue Ridge to Western New York. They chap. IV.} 175
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
ake in the heats of midsummer. The spirits, said they, of our murdered brothers are flying around us, screaming for vengeance. The mountains echoed the warsong; and the braves dashed upon the frontiers for scalps, even to the skirts of Ninety-Six. In their attack on that fort, several of them fell. We fatten our dogs with their carcasses, wrote Francis to Lyttleton; and display their scalps, neatly ornamented, on the tops of our bastions. J. Francis to Gov. Lyttleton, 6 March, 1760. Drayton's South Carolina, 246. Yet Fort Loudoun, on the Tennessee, was exposed to the savages, beyond the reach of succor. Adair's History, 254. From Louisiana Annual Register, III. 61. the Cherokees obtained military stores; and, extending their alliance, they exchanged with the restless Muskohgees the swans' wings painted with red and black, and crimsoned tomahawks, that were the emblems of war. Annual Register, III. 61. Carolina was now in conflict with the moun- chap. XV.} 1760. t