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A CENTURY OF DISHONOR.

for you to go to him:" and they showed to the Indian a fine suit of scarlet clothes, and a sword, which thcy were about to give to a chief of the Tennessces who had become their ally

But the Creek answered, "We love him. It is truc, he docs give us silver; but he gives us has. He has giren me the eoat off his back, and the blanket not cverything we want that he from under him."

At last the trustees of the Georgia Colony lost patience: very bitterly they had learned that panpers, however worthy, are not good stuff to build new enterprises of. In eighteen years the colony had not once furnished a sufficient supply of snbsistence for its own consumption: farms which had been rapidly de- cultivated were going to ruin; and the country was generating in every respcct. Dishonest traders had tampered wit and exasperated the Indians, could no longer be implicitly trusted in. For everything that went wrong the English Company was held responsible, and probably there were no of June, 1752, than were the Gcorgia trnstecs, who on that day formally resigned their charter, and washed their hands of the colony forever

The province very soon became the seat of frightful Indian wars authorities neither understood nor kept faith with the Indians: their old fricnd Oglethorpe had left them forever, and the samc secnes of treachery and massacre whic were being enaeted at the North began to be repcated with heart-sickening similarity so that their friendliness lhappier men in all England on the 20th was now formed into a royal governnent, and The new Indians fighting Indians-fighting at the South. as allics to day with the French, to-mnorrow with the English; treaties made, and broken as soon as made; there was neither peace nor safety anywhere.

At last, in 1768, a treaty was concludcd with the chiefs and headmen of five tribes, which scemed to The Cherokees and Creeks granted to the King of England promise better things

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