1From James Madison to the Chiefs of the Creek Nation, [14 January] 1811 (Madison Papers)
Your father the President of the United States takes you by the hand. He has received from Colo: Hawkins your Talk of the last Autumn. Either you have not been sufficiently informed, or you have not rightly understood his design in sending out the two parties from Fort Stoddert. Good path ways and roads are equally useful to his White and to his Red Children. Rivers & Water courses are made by...