[Footnote: _Do_., Secretary of War to Governor Blount, Jan.

31, 1792.] Their Outrages on the Tennesseeans.
The General Government had conducted the treaties in good faith and had given the Indians what they asked.

The frontiersmen did not molest them in any way or trespass upon their lands; yet their ravages continued without cessation.

The authorities at Washington made but feeble efforts to check these outrages, and protect the southwestern settlers.

Yet at this time Tennessee was doing her full part in sustaining the National Government in the war against the Northwestern tribes; a company of Tennessee militia, under Captain Jacob Tipton, joined St.Clair's army, and Tipton was slain at the defeat, where he fought with the utmost bravery.