U.S. & Indian Differences Regarding Ohio River Boundary Irreconcilable; War Will Continue
Document 1793The Indians have acknowledged the receipt of the recent treaty commissioners' speech, which declared that the U.S.-Indian Boundary could no longer be the Ohio; the Indians have stated that they will accept no other boundary. The commissioners now state that the negotiations are now ended, and the war will go on.
To the Chiefs and Warriors of the Indian Nations assembled at the foot of the Miami Rapids–
Brothers. We have just received your answer, dated the 13th inst, to our speech of the thirty first of last month, which we delivered to your Deputies at this place. You say it was interpreted to all your nations: and w presume it was fully understood. We therein explicitly declared to you that it was now impossible to make the River Ohio the boundary between your lands & the lands of the United States. Your answer amounts to a declaration that you will agree to no other boundary than the Ohio. The negotiation is therefore at an end–
We sincerely regret that Peace is not the result; but knowing the upright & liberal views of the United States, which as far as you gave us opportunity, we have explained to you, we trust that impartial judges will not attribute the continuance of the war to them–
Done Done at Captain Elliots, at the mouth of Detroit River, the Sixteenth day of August 1793
B. Lincoln B Wesley Randolph Timothy Pickering } Commissioners of the United States
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