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Clinch13’s Expedition—Met by Sailing-Master Loomis and two gun-boats—Fort blown up—Destruction of human life—Negroes captured and enslaved—Property taken—Claimed by Governor of Florida—First Seminole War commenced.
When Mr. Madison assumed the duties of President (March 4, 1809), the Exiles were quietly enjoying their freedom; each sitting under his own vine and fig-tree, without molestation14 or fear. Many had been born in the Seminole country, and now saw around them children and grand-children, in the enjoyment15 of all the necessaries of life. Many, even of those who fled from Georgia after the formation of that colony, had departed to their final rest; but their children and friends had been comparatively free from persecutions since the Treaty of Colerain, in 1796. Discarding all connection with the Creeks, and living under protection of Spain, and feeling their right to liberty was “self-evident,” they believed the United States to have tacitly admitted their claims to freedom. With these impressions, they dwelt in conscious security, believing no further attempts would be made to re?nslave them. Mr. Madison had penned the memorable16 Address of Congress to the people of the United States, published near the close of the old Confederation, in which was reiterated17, in glowing language, the doctrines18 of the Declaration of Independence; and in the Convention that framed the Constitution, he had declared “it would be wrong to admit, in that instrument, that man can hold property in man.”
1810.
The people of Georgia were not satisfied with the existing state of things. They were greatly excited at seeing those who had once been slaves, in South Carolina and in Georgia, now live quietly and happily in the enjoyment of liberty, with their flocks and their herds19, their wives and their little ones, around them; but they were on Spanish soil, protected by Spanish laws. The only mode of enslaving them was, firstly, to obtain
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