Disrci?ardini? his plighter! foith, he a~;1in marched his forces lo invaclr vour fir<>sidcs. Finally forced to tlissolw connection with the ~lcxie~n m,tion, they invn~lccl your soil with an overwhelming majority. One hundred nnd eighty of your countrymen were sur- rounded on your frontier by three thousand of the enemy, and after gallantly contending with them for several days, until the most of this gallant litlle band had fallen in noble fight: the few prisoners who remained, together with the sick, were most basely put to the sword. Three hundred brave men under the command of Col. Fannin, were surrounded in the open prairie by an overwhelming force, were cut off from,,water, after having maintained themselves for a whole day against five times their number. They were finally induced to surrender, and did so, stipulating with the enemy, that they were to receive the usual treatment of prisoners of war~ according to the rules governing civilized nations; in violation of this sacred treaty, they were, after having been robbed and insulted, taken out and basely and inhumanly butchered. An attempl was then made to rob them of their nobly earned reputation, by trumpeting forth to the world a pretended official report, utlerly false and unfounded in all its particulars, and discovering in every line, a disgraceful and contemptible disposition, by falsehood and detraction, to blacken the reputation and tarnish the memory of the illuslTious dead. For the purpose of securing the liberation of their President, who is our Prisoner, they have entered into treaties with our Government; they also induced them to send on commissioners for the purpose of seeing to the execution of those treaties in violation of all honorable principles, they have detained those Commissioners as prii;oners, and while they were falsly pretending, and assuring you, that they were fulfilling their treaties in good faith, thereby inducing you to disband your army and make no preparation for war, they were planning another exterminating war, straining every nerve; and collecting upon your frontier, a large body of troops, for the purpose of falling on your defenceless families, unawares, and of exterminating you from the soil. They have sent agents, with large sums of money to the Indians, residing amongst you, and have granted commissions to their Chiefs, in order to induce them, to commence an indis- criminate Slaughter of your wives, and children while you are engaged in honorable war for your rights.
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