Letter to Andrew Pickens from Charles Pinckney, July 4, 1790

Letter to Andrew Pickens from Charles Pinckney, July 4, 1790

July 4, 1790

Pinckney discusses a peace agreement between the Creek and the US.

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Pickens, Andrew, 1739-1817

Cox, Danielle

Perkins, Erin (transcription),

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Ms. 121, Andrew Pickens Papers, 1782-1804

English

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Dear Sir

Our friend Colonel Gervais having mentioned to me by your request that it was propable a pacification was or would soon be concluded between the Creeks & the United States & that Mr McGillivray was going with Colonel Willett to New York. I confess it has given me some sensations which if realized will be full as agreable as any I have ever experienced upon a public occasion of such importance

Until now I concieved myself in some measure precluded from mentioning except confidentially the communications which passed between the President of the United States & myself on this subject, but if a pacification is concluded & I have had any agency in producing it I consider the work of peace of so pleasing & important a nature that I confess I am anxious to know whether I ought to claim to myself any merit in having been in some measure the humble instrument of forwarding it-

I am the more interested in being informed upon this subject because I have ever viewed the infant & exposed state of our frontiers as very essentially entitled to the attention & fostering care of the Government, & as the national support & defence as well as the means of effecting it were

taken from the individual States & given to the Union I have always considered it as part of the duty of our Executive to be as full & as regular in his communications on the subject as he possibly could–

You must recollect that when on a tour through the frontiers of ninety six I recieved verbally some communications from you which were afterwards confirmed by the Letters you did me the honour to write on that Subject- As soon as the Commissioners had failed in producing a peace I wrote to the President the inclosed Letter which I believe I once read to you I now venture to send you an extract of his answer to me soon after recieving which I heard that Colonel Willett had arrived & was gone express to the Creek Nation-

If you have recieved or may recieve any accounts respecting this Business in which you can be able to judge how far the representations I have made may have been attended to or may have been useful, you will oblige me by transmitting them for as I have already said, it would give me great pleasure to know that the attention I have paid to the interests of the frontiers & my endeavors to promote them may in some degree have contributed to effect a peace-

You well know that during the little

time I have been in administration I have had an occurance of difficult & important points- among them I consider the question of the Indian War & the consequent application from Georgia for assistance, & the removal of the Seat of Government as the most delicate & trying- the latter is now settled & the differences it occasioned buried I hope for ever in Oblivion- & if the former should also be settled I think we may congratulate ourselves on being once more in a situation which promises domestic harmony & prosperity- I am with Regard

Dear Sir much obliged
Yours Truly
Charles Pinckney
July 4 1790

To
General Andrew Pickens
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