The Kentucky Gazette

July 11.

It has long since been surmised, that the Creek and other hostile southern Indians were instigated to hostilities against the United States by the Spanish-American government; from a late step of the Spanish commissioners it appears that something serious is intended.

Their commissioners, it is confidently reported, have signified to the executive of the Union, that their court expects a compliance with certain demands of the Creeks, which they think just, and that they are determined to support the Creeks in those demands should they not be complied with.

Taking this circumstance unconnectedly, it must appear strange, that the Spanish government should dare to offer such an insult, How do our affairs with the Creeks so nearly concern them as to warrant their taking this decided part? Does it not appear like a pretext for hostility; for they surely cannot imagine that we shall crouch before their haughtiness.

Yet how can their circumstances at home allow them to think of a war with us, in this hemisphere? Is not all this rather one effect of the combination of despots against liberty? was it not settled in the councils of European despots, that the spark of liberty here should be smothered at the same time, that the fire of freedom in France which threatened thrones and their possessors, should be extinguished? a little time will unfold the whole mystery of this conspiracy of despotism; Americans should be on their guard!