Letter from Secretary of War Henry Knox to Daniel Smith, Esquire, Secretary of Treasury of United States South of Ohio River: Page #2

Letter from Secretary of War Henry Knox to Daniel Smith, Esquire, Secretary of Treasury of United States South of Ohio River: Page #2

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letter, will be charged with instructions from the President, to endeavor by every possible 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 acknow ledge the receipt of your message dated at [Coyate?] the 15th of June [Cad.] 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 expresses his highest indignation at the \base 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 [undecipherable] to full punishment. It is sincerely desired by the President that those bad men should not escape the law and that you should see or know some 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 sometime the bad escape unpunished by the cunning of the criminals or for want of strong evidence, In such cases we do not present an individual who has been [undecipherable] to his