several have been in our possession yet I have sent them all safe home This alone must convince that we have a wish to live in peace provided it can be done on proper terms. M^r Bryant will inform you more particularly of our friendship. Wishing that your nation may have wisdom to live in peace, I conclude this talk and remain a real friend to you and every honest man in the Creek land. James Seagrove to the Kings, Chiefs, Head-men and Warriors of the whole Creek Nation. Dear Brothers S^t. Marys 14^th April 1793. I sent you a talk on the 22^d of last month by an Indian which I hope you have received. it was addressed to the whole of the Creek nation on the late murder and robberies committed on this country by the people of the Creek Towns. lest any accident should have prevented these talks reaching you, I now send you a Copy of them and hope that on the Chiefs of the nation perusing them they will see the necessity of immediately complying with my demand and delivering up to me an equal number of those who murdered our people in cold blood and without any reason or cause whatever. It now appears that they killed seven persons — six were found and a man of the name of Upton is missing ever since the murder at Traders hill, where he then was. This demand is agreeable to your own laws and being founded on strict justice and the laws of nations I cannot doubt but that you have for will speedily have seven of those persons who were foremost in advising, planning or executing the horrid murders alluded to, seized on and delivered to me, that their blood may atone for what they have done — This alone can save your country, for I must inform you that as much as the United States respects you as a people and wishes your happiness and prosperity yet the late wanton unprovoked outrages of your people on this country has been of so heinous a nature as to call loudly on your government to see satisfaction made. Indeed I am convinced that the Citizens of America will not submit to any thing short of what I now demand. Should your people be lost to a sense of justice and regardless of peace or their existence as a nation and obstinately decline a compliance with my just demand, I must desire that you will all please to remember that no hasty steps have been taken by me or my Country but that full opportunity is now given for punishing the aggressors and thereby you may continue to live in peace and friendship with the United States as long as you chose. That certain white men in your land have been principal advisers and promoters of the late acts of violence I have not a doubt. I have always told you these white villians would bring ruin on you unless you drove them from among you. Is it not very strange that the whole of the white men of your land should be so blind as not to discover the designs of these base men which evidently appears to involve you in a War and have you destroyed thereby to plunder your property and take your lands that you now live on. I bouse my friends and Brothers and clear from among or destroy a set of such men as I have described, you cannot be at a loss to know them, their actions have already pointed them out as fit objects of your resentment. All those who advise your people to demand or go to War, those who encourage your people to steal horses and other property and purchase them afterwards are bad, but above all the adherents and supporters of Bowles impositions on you are deserving of severe punishment as they have kept your land in a flame for years and imposed on your people by false promises. I expect these things will be done without delay as on it your future happiness in a great measure depends. I was all ready to set off to meet you all my friends in the Cussetalks agreeable to promise when the murder and robbery on the river took place this has of course delayed me and will until you have ordered examples to be made agreeably to my demand herein contained. When this is done I shall shortly after be with you, and when I shall make known to you many agreeable talks which I have from our great and good father the President of the United States whose greatest wish is to make you his children happy. Notwithstanding the late very bad conduct of your people towards this Country? Yet you have it in your power to live in peace and friendship with the United States on your complying with my present demand. Now Brothers would you not be much to blame to suffer your whole Country to be ruined to save from just punishment seven bad men who have brought trouble and disgrace on your land and destroyed an equal number of our people, your good friends and that without any cause, It gives me great pleasure to find that you were so wise as not to take the Shaiwanese and other Northern Indian talks you