now among them to be restored, and by what means will the sad scene of plunder taken from our Citizens be recovered, even admitting that the feelings of humanity were not awake in the breasts of the near connections of the women and children who have been butchered by Savages. brutality. — may such Scenes throw gloomy reflections over the hope of peace and safety to the Inhabitants of Georgia. is very distant. The people have an undebitable claim on Government for protection, and the establishment of a proper peace can be of no duration, and it is much as the people of this Country can have no dependance upon, without previous measures being taken to compel a due observance thereof. The present system of defence is deemed not more than adequate for the frontier settlements and should the proposed alteration take place, I have little doubt but the three Southern Counties Viz: Liberty, Glynn, and Brandon, will be entirely depopulated by a total removal of their inhabitants. I have the Honor to be Sir, Your most Obedient Servant Edw.^d Telfair. His Secretary of War \ John Galphin to General Irwin. Sir, Feeling with the greatest concern the hostilities and bloodshed which has been produced by the differences subsisting between us in all parts of our borders, we now offer in behalf of our nation towards [terminating