Continued troubles with the Indians--English emissaries in Kentucky--Mission of Antoine Gamelin--Preparations for war--Campaign of General Harmar--Successive defeats of Colonel Hardin--Conduct of the militia--Retreat of Harmar--Indian deputation to Lord Dorchester--Letter of Sir John Johnson--Colonel Gordon--Letter of Brant to Colonel McKee--Pacific views of Lord Dorchester--Renewed efforts of the United States to bring the Indians to peace--Interposition of Corn-planter--Mission of Corn-planter and Colonel Proctor--British officers wish a mediation--Letter of Colonel Gordon--Colonel Pickering holds an Indian Council at the Chemung--Red Jacket's course--Brant interferes--Indian Councils at Buffalo--Influence of Colonel John Butler and Brant--Mission of Colonel Proctor and Corn-planter frustrated--Important position of Brant--Correspondence between the Secretary of War and Governor Clinton--Colonel Pickering's Council with the Indians at Painted Post--Mission of Hendrick, the Stock-bridge chief--Renewal of hostilities--Campaign of General St. Clair--His defeat--Thayendanegea among the Indian captains--The panic that followed--Clamor against St. Clair--His resignation--Wayne appointed his successor--Refusal of Colonel Willett to embark in an Indian war. 291 CHAPTER XI. Preparations for an Indian Consultation at Philadelphia--Captain Brant invited to attend--His objections--Letter of the Rev. Mr. Kirkland to Captain Brant--Letter of the Secretary of War to the same--Letter of Colonel Gordon to the same--Letter of Captain Brant to the Secretary of War--The Secretary of War to Captain Brant--Attempts from Montreal to prevent Brant from going to Philadelphia--His journey--Feelings against him in the Mohawk Valley--His arrival at New-York and Philadelphia--Liberal offers made him--Letter to the Count de Puisy--The offers rejected--Undertakes a Mission of Peace to the Miamis--Returns to New-York--Pursued by a German from the German Flats bent on taking his life--Discovered in New-York--Brant returns to Niagara--Murder of Colonel Harden and Major Trueman--Letters of Brant to the Secretary at War--Feelings of the Western Nations--Correspondence between Brant and McKee--Great Indian Council at the Au Glaize--Sickness of Captain Brant--Hostilities deferred until Spring, and a treaty with the United States ordered--Return of the Delegates of the Six Nations--Address to President Washington--Separate organization of Upper Canada--Arrival of Governor Simcoe--Letter to Brant from the Duke of Northumberland--Preparations for the Great Council of 1783--Fresh dissatisfaction of the Indians--Private Councils--They send their ultimatum in anticipation--The American Commissioners depart for the Indian country--Their arrival at Niagara--Friendly conduct of Governor