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To the Dog Warrior, Mad Blue, and all the principal Chiefs of the Creek Nation.
Friends!
Your talk by Captain Chisolm affords me great pleasure. The desire you so warmly express of peace and friendship with the United States is highly gratifying: and the preparatory step, you have so early wisely taken, ^for of establishing that friendly intercourse between the two nations, so highly interesting to both, on the principles of good faith and mutual confidence, is a proof of that wisdom and policy which mark a great nation.
Friends!
I thank you for the assurances you give that no mischief shall be done on our frontiers; and doubt not, that our people will now not be afraid to meet; to take each other by the hand; and eat, & smoke together in peace ^harmony and friendship.
Friends!
You say that some of your people intend to Cumberland this winter, to purchase ammunition and other necessaries; and wish me to issue my pro= =clamation, to protect them, in their journey, and prevent any mischief being done by ill designed persons
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persons among our people. Be assured I shall ^with pleasure comply with your request; and be assured that your people may go and return in use my utmost exertions to prevent any of your people from ^being molested, or interrupted on their journey. the utmost security, without any apprehension of being molested or interrupted in their journey.
Friends! I thank you for your favorable opinion of me; and believe me, when I declare, I was always a friend I shall also endeavor to preserve peace and harmony between our people and yours, and prevent
I thank you for your favorable opinion of me. - Believe me I always was, and ever shall be, a friend to all the ^red people who wish to preserve ^that peace and harmony so desirable to all good men. Under the influence of this friendship, I shall be vigilant in preventing any mischief, or encroachment on your hunting grounds; under the full assurance that you will on part, continue to act under ^on the influence ^firm ^principles of peace amity and good faith.
A Copy
25 October 1796
