The reinforcements you have ordered this way, go considerable by the additional number of

officers, will fully enable me to crush the little opposition they may dare to offer along the road,
and secure that part of the country against all there future attempts, till you think proper to order
us to act in conjunction with the rest of your forces to exterminate that vermine from a country
they have forfeited and with it all claim to the rights of humanity.
I have no pretension to be a judge of Indian affairs, but rather be very reluctant to ever appear to
be under the least obligation to the indigenous cherokees, and has to the Catabas? they are no
more a nation: I would rather chose the liberty to kill an savage that may come in our way, then
to be perpetually doubtful whether they are friends or foes.
There is no doubt but it is, I have been in the power of the six nations to interrupt the
communication at any time since the troops were dispatched there to. But there is as little doubt
but that such a ?? would, in the end, bring certain ruin on their own heads; an therefore lie as
much their own interest as ours to remain quiet and amicable indeed it is more so; for their
commencing ??? against us and perishing therein might be attended with the so of our inferior
posts and in a few of our vengeful but must incevilabilly occasion such measures to be taken as
would bring about the total extirpation of their Indian nations
The English or daring to form conspiracies, as the consequence will most certainly occasion
measures to be taken, that in the end will put a most effectual stop to their very being.