The foregoing are true copies from the records in the War Office. Jn° Stagg Jun^r Chief Clerk. Letter from the Secretary of War to Daniel Smith Esquire, Secretary of the Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio dated 27^th August 1793 Sir, Your several letters of the 17^th June 19^th 27^th and 30^th July with their several enclosures have been submitted to the President of the United States. The excesses which you state are a subject of extreme regret to the President of the United States and seem almost to preclude the hope of establishing order, and peace upon the frontiers between the United States and the Indians. Your situation must have been painful indeed to have been a witness of such lawless violence without possessing the power of remedying them. However your good intentions and the approbation of the President of the United States, must be to you a great consolation. It is unnecessary to be particular in replying to your letters, as Governor Blount who will be the bearer of this [• letter] letter, will be charged with instructions from the President to endeavour by every possible means to reestablish 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 Loyale the 15^th of June last. Be assured Brothers that the misfortunes 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 expresses his highest indignation at the bare attack which has been made upon you during the moments of peace; he has directed Governor Blount to endeavour by the course of the law to bring the perpetrators of that wicked aggression to full punishment. It is sincerely desired by the President that those bad men should not escape the law and that you should see & 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