Thus early in our first maddening the Indians into war, and then falling upon them with exterminating punishment. history was the ingenious plan evolved of The gentleman who bas left on the official records of his country his elaim to the first suggestion and recommendation of this method is "Arthur St. Clair, governor of the territory of the United States north west of the Ohio River, and commissioner plenipotentiary of the United States of Amcrica for remoying all causes of con troversy, regulating trade, and settling boundarics with the In- dian nations in the Northern Depariment." Under all these conditions, it is not a matter of wonder that the frontier was a sccne of perpetual devastation and blood- shed; and that, year by year, there grew stronger in the minds of the whites a terror and lhatred of Indians; and in the minds of the Indians a stronger and stronger distrust and hatred of the whites The Delawares were, through the carlier part of these trou- bled times, friendly. In 1791 we find the Seeretary of War recommending the commissioncrs sent to treat with the hostile Miamis and Wabash Indians to stop by the way with the friendly Delawares, and take some of their leading chiefs with them as allies. He says, these tribes are onr friends," and, as far as is known, "the treaties have been well observed by them. But in 1792 we find them mentioned among the bostile tribes to whom was sent a message from the United States Government, containing the following extraordinary para graphs: "Brethren: The President of the United States entertains the opinion that the war which exists is an error and mistake on your parts. That you belicve the United States want to deprive you of your lands, and drive you out of the country. Be assured that this is not so; on the contrary, that we should bo greatly gratified with the opportunity of imparting to you