Mr. Habersham, agent for supplies, is instructed to co-operate; and the Governor of South Carolina is requested to afford, upon your application, the aid of the militia of that State, if circumstances, as does not appear probable, should require it. No agreement or arrangement which may be made, or pretended to be made between these settlers and the Indians, ought to be suffered to make any alteration in the plan of suppressing the settlement: for, no such agreement, or arrangement, can possibly be legal; or, considering the manner in which the settlement has been commenced, can, without affording a most pernicious example, receive the future sanction of government. You desire instructions with regard to the prisoners that may be made, in the event of the employment of force. You will be pleased to cause them to be delivered over to the custody of the judiciary, and in preference, to that of the United States; as their laws define and prescribe particular punishments in such cases. ALEX. HAMILTON. SIR: WOLCOTT TO WILKES. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, October 8th, 1794. I have had the pleasure to receive your letter of the 6th instant, addressed to the Secretary of the Treasury, announcing that the President, Directors and Company of the New-York Bank, have generously complied with his proposals for a loan of two hundred thousand dollars for the public service. I inclose a contract for the repayment of this sum on the terms proposed, when the counterpart has been executed on the part of the corporation of the bank. I must request you to transmit it to the Treasury. The proceeds of the loan may be passed to the credit of the United States at New-York, and held subject to the drafts of the Treasurer. I am, with consideration, sir, your obedient servant. OLIVER WOLCOTT, Jun. HAMILTON TO LEE. BEDFORD, October 20, 1794. SIR: I have it in special instruction from the President of the United States, now at this place, to convey to you the following instructions for the general direction of your conduct in the command of the militia army, with which you are charged. The objects for which the militia have been called forth are 1st. To suppress the combinations which exist in some of the western counties in Pennsylvania, in opposition to the laws laying duties upon spirits distilled within the United States, and upon stills. 2d. To cause the laws to be executed. These objects are to be effected in two ways. 1. By military force. 2. By judiciary process and and other civil proceedings. 1. To overcome any armed opposition which may exist. 2. To countenance and support the civil officers in the means of executing the laws. With a view to the first of these two objects, you will proceed, as speedily as may be, with the army under your command, into the insurgent counties, to attack, and as far as shall be in your power, subdue, all persons whom you may find in arms in opposition to the laws above mentioned. You will march your army in two columns, from the places where they Mr. Habersham, agent for supplies, is instructed to co-operate; and the Governor of South Carolina is requested to afford, upon your application, the aid of the militia of that State, if circumstances, as does not appear probable, should require it. No agreement or arrangement which may be made, or pretended to be made between these settlers and the Indians, ought to be suffered to make any alteration in the plan of suppressing the settlement: for, no such agreement, or arrangement, can possibly be legal; or, considering the manner in which the settlement has been commenced, can, without affording a most pernicious example, receive the future sanction of government. You desire instructions with regard to the prisoners that may be made, in the event of the employment of force. You will be pleased to cause them to be delivered over to the custody of the judiciary, and in preference, to that of the United States; as their laws define and prescribe particular punishments in such cases. ALEX. HAMILTON. WOLCOTT TO WILKES. SIR: TREASURY DEPARTMENT, October 8th, 1794. I have had the pleasure to receive your letter of the 6th instant, addressed to the Secretary of the Treasury, announcing that the President, Directors and Company of the New-York Bank, have generously complied with his proposals for a loan of two hundred thousand dollars for the public service. I inclose a contract for the repayment of this sum on the terms proposed, when the counterpart has been executed on the part of the corporation of the bank. I must request you to transmit it to the Treasury. The proceeds of the loan may be passed to the credit of the United States at New-York, and held subject to the drafts of the Treasurer. I am, with consideration, sir, your obedient servant. OLIVER WOLCOTT, Jun. HAMILTON TO LEE. BEDFORD, October 20, 1794. SIR: I have it in special instruction from the President of the United States, now at this place, to convey to you the following instructions for the general direction of your conduct in the command of the militia army, with which you are charged. The objects for which the militia have been called forth. are 1st. To suppress the combinations which exist in some of the western counties in Pennsylvania, in opposition to the laws laying duties upon spirits distilled within the United States, and upon stills. 2d. To cause the laws to be executed. These objects are to be effected in two ways. 1. By military force. 2. By judiciary process and and other civil proceedings. 1. To overcome any armed opposition which may exist. 2. To countenance and support the civil officers in the means of executing the laws. With a view to the first of these two objects, you will proceed, as speedily as may be, with the army under your command, into the insurgent counties, to attack, and as far as shall be in your power, subdue, all persons whom you may find in arms in opposition to the laws above mentioned. You will march your army in two columns, from the places where they are now assembled, by the most convenient routes, having regard to the nature of the roads, the convenience of supply, and the facility of co-operation and union; and bearing in mind that you ought to act, till the contrary shall be fully developed, on the general principle of having to contend with the whole force of the counties of Fayette, Westmoreland, Washington, and Allegany, and of that part of Bedford which lies west of the town of Bedford; and that you are to put as little as possible to hazard. The approximation, therefore, of your columns, is to be sought, and the subdivision of them, so as to place the parts out of mutual supporting distance, to be avoided as far as local circumstances will permit. Parkinson's Ferry appears to be a proper point towards which to direct the march of the columns for the purpose of ulterior measures. When arrived within the insurgent country, if an armed opposition appear, it may be proper to publish a proclamation, inviting all good citizens, friends of the Constitution and laws, to join the standard of the United States. If no armed opposition exist, it may still be proper to publish a proclamation, exhorting to a peaceable and dutiful demeanor, and giving assurances of performing, with good faith and liberality, whatsoever may have been promised by the Commissioners to those who have complied with the conditions prescribed by them, and who have not forfeited their title by subsequent misconduct. Of those persons in arms, if any, whom you may make prisoners, leaders, including all persons in command, are to be delivered up to the civil magistrate; the rest to be disarmed, admonished, and sent home, (except such as may have been particularly violent, and also influential,) causing their own recognizances for their good behavior to be taken, in the cases in which it may be deemed expedient. With a view to the second point, namely, "the countenance and support of the civil officers in the means of executing the laws," you will make such dispositions as shall appear proper to countenance and protect, and, if necessary, and required by them, to support and aid the civil officers in the execution of their respective duties; for bringing offenders and delinquents |