John May to _Do._, April 19, 1786.

Clark MSS.

Bradford's Notes on Kentucky.

John Clark to Johnathan Clark, April 21, 1786.] Anger of the Kentuckians.
The Kentuckians were by this time thoroughly roused, and were bent on making a retaliatory expedition in force.

They felt that the efforts made by Congress to preserve peace by treaties, at which the Indians were loaded with presents, merely resulted in making them think that the whites were afraid of them, and that if they wished gifts all they had to do was to go to war.