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You shall stay there until the lightning rips open your coffin, or the autumn winds tumble you into the swamp. So saying, he left him, and went back to the camp left him to die in the old woods, where no help could ever come; and in this wild and awful manner buried alive perished the savage half-breed." "That was an awful death, indeed," exclaimed Mrs. Harmar.
Shortly afterwards, St. Clair hastened to Fort Washington at Cincinnati, and there held a military conference with General Josiah Harmar. From thence an expedition under Major John F. Hamtramck was to be directed against the villages on the lower Wabash, so as to prevent them from aiding the Miamis higher up.
"With blessings on the traitor's head, of course," remarked Wilson, ironically. "I could imagine how it was received," said Mr. Jackson Harmar. "The people were indignant and cursed the traitor." "The people of Philadelphia knew Arnold's real character," replied old Harmar.
"And why shall you always remember the death of those two men?" inquired Mr. Jackson Harmar. "Well, from peculiar circumstances connected with them," replied Higgins. "However, your father knew them most intimately, and he can tell you more about them than I can." "Come, father, we call on you for the story," said Mrs. Harmar. "You shall have what I can recollect of it, my child.
It was a time of blood and desolation," remarked Mr. Jackson Harmar. "I was intimately acquainted with several families residing in the valley at the time of the massacre," said Morton; "and one man, who was taken prisoner after seeing his whole family slaughtered, and who afterwards escaped from the bloody band, narrated the whole affair to me."
On the twentieth, Harmar ordered the burning and destruction of every house and wigwam in the town, and censured the "shameful cowardly conduct of the militia who ran away, and threw down their arms without firing scarcely a single gun."
Clair now determined to hold the treaty at Fort Harmar at the mouth of the Muskingum, and sent a message to the tribes now collecting on the Detroit river, to that effect.
"I've heard something of that prayer," said Morton, "since the Revolution, but nothing that I could depend on." "An account of the scene is given by John Adams, who was a chief actor in it," said young Harmar. "Old John Adams?" enquired Higgins. "He was the man! He was the Washington of our politics during the war. He was the man!" and Higgins rubbed his hands together.
Some of the historians who have commented on these campaigns of Scott and Wilkinson and the Kentucky militia, have sought to minimize and even to discredit these expeditions. Says Albach: "The expeditions of Harmar, Scott and Wilkinson were directed against the Miamis and Shawnees, and served only to exasperate them.
Congress was evidently seeking to carry out the letter and spirit of the Ordinance, and to extinguish the Indian right of occupancy, by fair negotiation and purchase. Time will not be taken here to enumerate the many difficulties encountered by General St. Clair in the negotiation of the treaty at Fort Harmar.
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