September 18, 1802

Boston paper the COLUMBIAN CENTINEL

Most of the ministerial writers are in requisition to execise their arts as "able editors" to prove the speach of RED JACKET, one of the chiefs of the Seneca, Onondaga and Cayuga tribes of Indians, a forgery. It frets the "galled withers" of the administration to find its intolerant and arbitrary acts arresting even the observation of the "sons of the forest;" who have no interest in the political contentions of the whites. But there is nothing sharper than Indian wit, nor nothing keener than Indian observation. The red people are very apt to think plainly; and as apt to speak as they think. The Six Nations to which RED JACKET belongs, always remained faithful to the standard of their Father WASHINGTON; and the Jacobin scribblers may as soon expect to hear them speak disrespectfull of him; as to find them giving any praise to the man, who has violated all his principles of government, repealed his laws, and turned out of office men who were faithful to him and their country.