THE HIRING OF FOREIGN SOLDIERS AND EMPLOYMENT OF INDIANS
IN THE CIVIL WAR 72-84
The policy of the British Ministry in employing foreign
soldiers and Indians in the war with the Colonies deprecated by
all classes in England and America and throughout Europe 72
Violent opposition in Parliament to the hiring of foreign
troops; exasperation in the Colonies (in a note) 73
Unreliable and bad character of the Hessian mercenaries 74
Remarks upon the bad policy of employing them, and their
bad conduct, by the royal historian (in a note) 74
The employment of Indians still more condemned and denounced
than the hiring of foreign troops 74
Employment of Indians by both the French and English during
the war of 1755-63, between France and England 75
At the close of the war the French authorities recommended
the Indians to cultivate the friendship of England 75
Both Congress and the English sought the alliance and
co-operation of the Indians; misstatements of the Declaration
of Independence on this subject (in a note); the advantages
of the latter over the former in conciliating the Indians 75
The employment of the Indians in every respect disadvantageous
to England 76
English Generals in America individually opposed to the
employment of the Indians in the military campaigns 76
Failure, if not defeat, of General Burgoyne's army by the
bad conduct, and desertion, of his Indian allies 76
But Washington and Congress, as well as the English
Government, sanctioned the employment of the Indians in the
war, and the first idea of thus employing them originated with
the first promoters of revolution in Massachusetts 77
Omissions of American writers to state that the aggressions
and retaliations of the Congress soldiers and their coadjutors
far exceeded in severity and destruction the aggressions and
retaliations of the Indians on the white inhabitants 77
Many letters and biographies of actors in the Revolution show
that very much of what was written or reported during the
Revolution against the English Loyalists and Indians was
fictitious or exaggerated 78
Proceedings of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts
(before the affairs of Concord and Lexington) to enlist and
employ the Indians against the British 79
General Washington, under date of July 27th, 1776, recommends
the employment of Indians in the revolutionary cause 80
The Americans have no ground of boasting over the English
in regard to the employment of Indians and their acts during
the war 81
Efforts of General Burgoyne to restrain the Indians, who were
an incumbrance to his army, and whose conduct alienated great
numbers of Loyalists from the British cause 82
The conduct and dread of the Indians roused great numbers
to become recruits in General Gates' army, and thus rendered
it far more numerous than the army of General Burgoyne (in a note) 83
American invasion and depredations in the Indian country the
latter part of 1776, as stated by Dr. Ramsay 84
The invasion unprovoked, but professedly as a "precaution"
to "prevent all future co-operation between the Indians and
British in that quarter" bordering in Virginia, North and South
Carolina, and Georgia 84
Complete destruction of Indian settlements; their country a
desolation 84