A talk from the Cherokees to the envoy from the Wabash and other Indians, July 12, 1779.

One paragraph is interesting: "We cannot forget the talk you brought us some years ago into this Nation, which was to take up the hatchet against the Virginians.

We heard and listened to it with great attention, and before the time that was appointed to lift it we took it up and struck the Virginians.

Our Nation was alone and surrounded by them.

They were numerous and their hatchets were sharp; and after we had lost some of our best warriors, we were forced to leave our towns and corn to be burnt by them, and now we live in the grass as you see us.