Letter from Georgia Governor Telfair to Secretary of War Henry Knox describing the remote prospects for peace with the Creek Nation: Page #2

Letter from Georgia Governor Telfair to Secretary of War Henry Knox describing the remote prospects for peace with the Creek Nation: Page #2

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now among them to be restored, and by what means will the vast amount 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 Savage brutality. I say when I draw these gloomy reflections into view that hope of peace and safety to the Inhabitants of Georgia is very distant. The people have an undubitable claim on Government for protection, and the establishment of a paper peace can be of no duration, and it is such 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 [undecipherable] Liberty, Glynn and Cambden, 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