I therefore now enclose you a duplicate of that letter.
Copy of a letter from the Governor of Georgia, with the deposition
it covered of a Mr. Hull, and an original passport signed by Olivier,
wherein he styles himself Commissary for his Catholic Majesty with the
Creeks.
Copy of a letter from Messrs. Viar and Jaudenes to myself, dated October
the 29th, with that of the extract of a letter of September the 24th,
from the Baron de Carondelet to them.
Copy of my answer of No. 1, to them, and copy of a letter from myself,
to the President, stating a conversation with those gentlemen.
From those papers you will find that we have been constantly
endeavoring, by every possible means, to keep peace with the Creeks;
that in order to do this, we have even suspended and still suspend the
running a fair boundary between them and us, as agreed on by themselves,
and having for its object the precise definition of their and our
lands, so as to prevent encroachment on either side, and that we have
constantly endeavored to keep them at peace with the Spanish settlements
also: that Spain on the contrary, or at least the officers of her
governments, since the arrival of the Baron de Carondelet, have
undertaken to keep an agent among the Creeks, have excited them and the
other southern Indians to commence a war against us, have furnished them
with arms and ammunition for the express purpose of carrying on that
war, and prevented the Creeks from running the boundary which would
have removed the cause of difference from between us.
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