Dunmore had taken the initiative in
securing such allies, at least is purpose; but the insurgent
Virginians had had of late more direct contact with the tribes
and were now striving to secure them but with little success."
"The Westward Movement," by Justin Winsor, p. 87.
General Ethan Allen of Vermont, as his letters show, sent
emissaries into Canada in an endeavor to enlist the French
Canadians and the Canadian Indians against the British in Canada.
See "American Archives," Fourth Series, vol. II, p. 714. The
British General Gage wrote to Lord Dartmouth from Boston, June
18, 1775: "We need not be tender of calling on the Savages as the
rebels have shown us the example, by bringing as many Indians
down against us as they could collect." "American Archives."
Fourth Series, vol. ii, p. 967.
In a letter to Lord Germain, dated August 23, 1776, John Stuart
wrote: "Although Mr. Cameron was in constant danger of
assassination and the Indians were threatened with invasion
should they dare to, protect him, yet he still found means to
prevent their falling on the settlement." See North Carolina
"Colonial Records," vol. X, pp. 608 and 763. Proof that the
British agents had succeeded in keeping the Cherokee neutral till
the summer of 1776 is found in the instructions, dated the 7th of
July, to Major Winston from President Rutledge of South Carolina,
regarding the Cherokees, that they must be forced to give up the
British agents and "INSTEAD OF REMAINING IN A STATE OF NEUTRALITY
with respect to British Forces they must take part with us
against them.
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