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Pulaski County Native American Data and News Stories
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
July 30 1823 Page 3
Milledgeville, Georgia, July 8
A gentleman of unquestionable veracity writes to us from Pulaski county, that a few Indians having encamped, two
or 3 weeks ago, in a neighbouring county for the purpose of supplying themselves with venison, a parcel of white
men went to their camp, (the Indians being absent on a hunting excursion) and took their blankets, clothes, saddles,
bridles, provision and skins, and made a bonfire of the whole! The Indians were entirely peaceable, had done no
mischief, and were furnished with recommendations from M
Intosh and Barnett, soliciting for them friendly treatment. But it was the misfortune of these children of the
forest to meet with savages worse than Indians. Our correspondent is apprehensive that some innocent person will
suffer, for this abominable act, so contrary to hospitality, justice and humanity, and appropriately remarks Had
those we call savage committed a similar outrage on our unoffending citizens, who had business in, or passing through
the Nation, what an uproar and bustle it would make! We should hear of nothing but revenge and restitution.
[Submitted by Nancy Piper]
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