Excerpt from The Documentary History of the Campaign Upon the Niagara Frontier, Vol. 2: In the Year 1813; June to August, 1813
Sir, - I received your letter of the 27th ult. At the time of delivering your letter to the Secretary of War I had some conversation with him on the subject of the war, and of employing such of the Indians as have firearms and were offering their services to the United States last fall. He observed that they may be of service and would refer the matter to the President.
The President has given no permission to employ the Indians or even accept of their services. He has sent a speech to the Six Nations by me giving his advice to them to retire from the lines during the war, to Alleghany, where they may sleep in safety.
(Prom Ketchum"s History of Buffalo and the Senecas, Vol. II., pp. 427-8.)
Major-General John Armstrong, Secretary of War, to Major-General Dearborn.
Dear General, - Your affair of the 27th ult. is matter of public and private congratulation, much qualified, however, by the loss of Pike and the escape of the frigate, the capture or destruction of which was, according to the Commodore"s calculations, to give him a decided and permanent ascendency on the lake. Another drawback upon it, less apt to be noticed by ordinary critics but in itself very vexatious, is the escape also of Sheaffe with the main body of his regular force.
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