[Captain Sam by George Cary Eggleston]@TWC D-Link bookCaptain Sam CHAPTER III 2/19
He deserves nothing better. During the summer of the year 1813, while the United States and great Britain were at war, a general Indian war came on which raged with especial violence in middle and southern Alabama.
The Indians fought desperately, but General Jackson managed to conquer them thoroughly. He was empowered by the government to make a treaty with them and he insisted that they should make a treaty which they could not help keeping.
He made them give up a large part of their land, and so arranged the boundaries as to make the Indians powerless for further harm. The Indians hesitated a long time before they would sign the treaty, but it was Jackson's way to finish whatever he undertook, and not leave it to be done over again.
As the people of the border used to say, he "left no gaps in the fences behind him," and so he insisted upon the treaty and the Indians at last signed it.
Meantime, however, a great many of the Indians, and among them several of their most savage chiefs had escaped to Florida, which was then Spanish territory. Jackson remained at his camp in southern Alabama through the summer of 1814 bringing the Indians to terms.
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