rge another reply. From arguments calculated to produce conviction,
I will appeal directly to the hearts of those who hear me, and ask
whether it is not already planted there. I resort especially to the
convictions of the western gentlemen, whether, supposing no posts
and no treaty, the settlers will remain in security. Can they take
it upon them to say that an Indian peace, under these circumstances,
will prove firm? No, sir; it will not be peace, but a sword; it will
be no better than a lure to draw victims within the reach of the
tomahawk.

On this theme, my emotions are unutterable. If I could find words
for them--if my powers bore any proportion to my zeal--I would
swell my voice to such a note of remonstrance, it should reach every
log house beyond the mountains, I would say to the inhabitants, Wake
from your false security; your cruel dangers, your more cruel
apprehensions, are soon to be renewed; the wounds, yet unhealed, are
to be torn open again; in the daytime, your path through the woods
will be ambushed; the darkness of midnight will glitter with the
blaze of your dwellings. You are a father--the blood of your sons
shall fatten your corn-field; you are a mother--the war-whoop shall
wake the sleep of the cradle.

On this subject you need not suspect any deception on your feelings.
It is a spectacle of horror which can not be overdrawn. If you have
nature in your hearts, it will speak a language compared with which
all I have said or can say will be poor and frigid.

Will it be whispered that the treaty has made a new champion for the
protection of the frontiers? It is known that my voice as well as
vote has been uniformly given in conformity with the ideas I have
expressed. Protection is the right of the frontiers; it is our duty
to give it.

Who will accuse me of wandering out of the subject? Who will say
that I exaggerate the tendencies of our measures? Will any one
answer by a sneer, that all this is idle preaching? Will any one
deny that we are bound, and I would hope to good purpose, by the
most solemn sanctions of duty, for the vote we give? Are despots
alone to be approached for unfeeling indifference to the tears and
blood of their subjects? Are republicans unresponsible? Have the
principles, on which you ground the reproach upon cabinets and
kings, no practical influence, no binding force? Are they merely
themes of idle declamation, introduced to decorate the morality of a
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