tribes had adopted a settled and well understood policy, involving resistance to further encroachments

upon territory which they regarded as their especial domain. In their controversies in regard to these encroachments the Indians had learned to distinguish between the king of England and those whom they regarded as their oppressors, and to assume that while the latter

judge to

Wyoming

were

trespassers, the former

was a just

whom

The revision of the they could appeal. deeds, and the establishment of the treaty line of

1768, they regarded as having been especially directed by the former, in acknowledgment of the justice of their claims, and this impression was strengthened by the policy which Johnson

pursued, as distinguished from that which was sanctioned by colonial authority.

Unfortunately the colonists made not only no effort to remove by their repeated violations of the treaty the irritations alive which its establishment was deline, kept this impression, but,

" His

discretion,

majesty, with great wisdom and was pleased to direct that (no

settlements) should now be made below the great Kanhawa river, with which I acquainted the Indians, agreeable to my

but numbers of settlements had been made there previous to the cession, Attempts made since to form others on the Mississippi, and great numbers in defiance of the cession, or the orders of the government in consequence thereof, have orders,

since removed not only below the

hawa, but even the cession, and

Kanbeyond the limits of in a little time we may probably hear that they have crossed the Ohio wherever the lands invite them j for the body of these people are under no restraint, and pay as little regard to government as they do to title for their possessions."