letter, will be charged with instructions from the President,to endeavor by every profitable means to re-establish order in his government.

Message from the Secretary of War to the Hanging Maw, sent by Governor Blount.

 Brothers,
    Your Father General Washington the President of the United States has   

directed me to acknowledge the receipt of your message dated at Coyate the 15th of June last.

 Be assured Brothers that the misfortune that has befallen you had deeply

afflicted your father the President who desires that his red children should be treated with the same humanity and justice as his white children.

 He offers his highest indignation at the bare attack which has been made upon

you during the moments of peace; he has directed Governor Blount to endeavor by the course of the law to bring the perpetrators of that wicked offense to full punishment.

 It is sincerely desird by the President that those bad men should not escape

the law and that you should see or know from evidence upon which you could rely that justice has been done you and your nation.

 But Brothers, while the laws are the protection of all good men among us, yet  

sometimes the bad escape unpunished by the cunning of the criminals or for want of strong evidence. In such cases we do not permit an individual who has been wronged to be his own avenger. This is never allowed among the Whites, when the society is well regulated.

   Now Brothers listen:

   If the laws should not condemn the murderers of your friends, is there no

other mode by which you could be satisfied?

   Governor Blount will talk to you upon this print, and endeavor to find some

mode by which we shall still be friends.

   It would afford your father great satisfaction to shake you by the hands this

fall in Philadelphia, and he hereby strongly urges you and the other chiefs of your nation to undertake the journey. He will direct that you shall be comfortably accommodated on your way, and further upon your arrival here he flatters himself that by being face to face, the remembrance of all former injuries will be done away and that we may establish a firm and lasting peace and friendship.

                  Given at the City of Philadelphia
                  this twenty seventh of August, in the year
                  of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred
                  and ninety three.
                
                   (Signed)
                              H.Knox
                              Sec. of War

The foregoing Letter to Secretary Smith and Message to the Hanging Maw are copies from the records of the war office.

                               John Stagg    [Undecipherable] Chief Clerk