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HARRISON TO EUSTIS Vincennes 29th. Jany 1812. Sir I have the honor to acknowledge the Receipt of your favors of the 25th. & 26th Ultimo with their enclosures. The Honorable mention which the President has been blessed to make of my own Conduct of this troops I commanded in the late action amply [illeg.] me for all the falsehoods & caluminious of [illeg.] and party writers. My warmest thanks are [illeg.] to the President for the good opinion of me which he has been pleased to express and to you sir for the polite manner in which it has been Communicated. The Presidents approbation of & his thanks for their good conduct have been communicated to the Several Corps which served upon the Campaign in a General Order -- I have the honor to enclose a copy of a letter lately received from Captn. Snelling -- It is almost impossible to select the truth from that mass of falsehood & inconsistency with which information derived from Indians always abounds. I know the Peter, mentioned by the Captn, and I do not think that implicit credit is due to what he says -- However he has always been on our side - The people whose horses were stolen last spring & in the Spring of 1810 by the Potawatimies & Kickapoos who were attached to the Prophet are very clamorous for compensation permit me to recommend that $500 be stoped of the annuity of each of those Tribes to satisfy those claims. I also beg leave to recommend that half of the Piankeshaws & as much of the Kickapoos annuity be confiscated by the Govt. in Consequence of their having permitted their warriors to join the Prophet & make war upon us - Considerably more than half the Kickapoos were with him & nearly half of the Piankeshaws - The Potawatimes ought also to be made to suffer for their Conduct - but that Tribe is so large that the Annuity which they now receive is now sufficient for them -- I am with great Respect sir yr. Hbl sert [unsignedThe Honble 5 |
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