All the old annalists, all the old frontiersmen who in after life recorded their memories of the Indian wars, tell with interminable repetition stories, grewsome in their blood-thirstiness, and as monotonous in theme as they are varied in detail:--how such and such a settler was captured by two Indians, and, watching his chance, fell on his captors when they sat down to dinner and slew them "with a squaw-axe"; how another man was treacherously attacked by two Indians who had pretended to be peaceful traders, and how, though wounded, he killed them both; how two or three cabins were surprised by the savages and all the inhabitants slain; or how a flotilla of flatboats was taken and destroyed while moored to the bank of the Ohio; and so on without end.

[Footnote: Draper MSS., Major McCully to Captain Biddle, Pittsburgh, May 5, 1792; B.Netherland to Evan Shelby, July 5, 1793, etc., etc.

Also Kentucky _Gazette_, Sept.

I, 1792; Charleston _Gazette_, July 22, 1791, etc.] The Frontiersmen Wish War.
The United States authorities vainly sought peace; while the British instigated the tribes to war, and the savages themselves never thought of ceasing their hostilities.

The frontiersmen also wished war, and regarded the British and Indians with an equal hatred.