In the mean time, we shall continue sincerely to cultivate the peace and
prosperity of all the parties, being constant in the opinion, that this
conduct, reciprocally observed, will most increase the happiness of all.
I have the honor to be, with sentiments of great esteem and respect,
Gentlemen, your most obedient and most humble servant,
Th: Jefferson.
LETTER CXXIV.--TO THE PRESIDENT, November 2,1792
TO THE PRESIDENT.
Philadelphia, November 2,1792.
Sir,
The letter of October the 29th, from Messrs. Viar and Jaudenes, not
expressing the principle on which their government interests itself
between the United States and the Creeks, I thought it of importance to
have it ascertained. I therefore called on those Gentlemen, and entered
into explanations with them. They assured me, in our conversation, that
supposing all question of boundary to be out of the case, they did not
imagine their government would think themselves authorized to take under
their protection any nations of Indians living within limits confessed
to be ours; and they presumed that any interference of theirs, with
respect to the Creeks, could only arise out of the question of disputed
territory, now existing between us: that, on this account, some part
of our treaty with the Creeks had given dissatisfaction.
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