The Federal Commissioners thereupon declined to enter into negotiations; but those from Georgia persevered.

By presents and strong drink they procured, and their government eagerly accepted, a large cession of land to which the two towns in question had no more title than was vested in all the others.
The treaty was fraudulent.

The Georgians knew that the Creeks who signed it were giving away what they did not possess; while the Indian signers cared only to get the goods they were offered, and were perfectly willing to make all kinds of promises, inasmuch as they had no intention whatever of keeping any of them.

The other Creeks immediately repudiated the transaction, and the war dragged on its course of dismal savagery, growing fiercer year by year, and being waged on nearly even terms.
[Footnote: American State Papers, Indian Affairs, vol.i., p.

15.] McGillivray Signs a Treaty of Peace.
Soon after the Constitution went into effect the National Government made a vigorous effort to conclude peace on a stable basis.
Commissioners were sent to the southern Indians.