compliment was accepted
and gracefully and magnanimously returned, for his highness, with a
gracious and cheerful smile, came up to me and clapping his hand on his
breast offered it to me, saying, 'I am Ata-Cul-Culla,' and heartily
shook hands with me, and asked me if I knew it. I answered that the
good spirit who goes before me spoke to me and said 'that is the great
Ata-Cul-Culla.'" The chief then asked him if he came direct from
Charlestown, and if his friend John Stuart were well. Mr. Bartram was
able to his great pleasure to reply that he had seen John Stuart very
recently, and that he was well.

15 Page 386. French emissaries were shortly in the vicinity of this
fort. At a great meeting of the Cherokee nation the indefatigable Louis
Latinac struck a hatchet into a log, crying out, "Who will take up this
for the king of France?" Saloue, the young warrior of Estatoe, instantly
laid hold of it, exclaiming, "I am for war!" And in indorsement of this
compact many tomahawks were brandished, already red with British blood.

16 Page 397. As an interesting example of the appropriate and successful
method to address barbarous peoples, the historian Hewatt gives entire
the text of a speech to several tribes of Indians which Stuart, in his
capacity of superintendent of Indian affairs for the South, delivered at
a general congress at Mobile, attended by Governor Johnstone and many
British officers and soldiers. It is strikingly apt, and despite the
figurative language for which the Indians had so strong a preference, it
is direct and simple, bold yet conciliatory, dignified in tone, but with
a very engaging air of extreme candor, and it may be that Stuart's
influence over them lay chiefly in fair and impartial measures and the
faithful performance of promises. Among the writers of that date he is
rarely mentioned without some reference to his mental ability, which
seems to have been very marked, or to the exact and strict fidelity with
which he followed the letter and spirit of his instructions. A certain
fling, however, by one who had wanted the office to which Stuart was
afterward appointed is so deft a bit of character-drawing in few words
that, regardless of its obvious spite, it is worth repeating,--"a
haughty person, devoted to parade, and a proud uniform."

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