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PRESIDENT TO CONGRESS-.
Continued.
From A. y7rJuthnot to Hiilliam Hamtiy.

TTOW Il. 1TOurDOt ~ Vtu"" ItuWO'ys
ocKLockNEE SOUND, 81 MAY, 1917.
/ SIR: On my return this day | received
letter signed by you, dated 93d March.
As you therein take the liberty Of advising
me, as you say, by order Of the Chiefs Of
the Creek Nation, | am glad Of, and shall
embrace this opening you gave me, and re-
ply 10 you at some length-and, sir, let me
premise, that when you lived at Prospect
Bluff, clerk to Messrs. Forbes g. Co. you
did not consider Cappachimicoo, Mcqueen
or any other Of the chiefs of the lower
Creek Nation as outlaws, nor have they
been considered as such by the English 60
yernment, who are the special protector.
Of the Indian nation; and 1t i'll becomes Mr..
Hambly TO call Cappacbimcco an outlaw,
that man, who has even been his friend, aud
by his authority has prolonged his life.
Yes, sir, the young chiefs and warriors Of
the Creek nation considering you as the
chief cause Of their troubles, will have long
ere this had posse ssion of you, and perhaps
with your life made you pay The forfeit for
the injuries heaped on them, had not that
nan who has been your friend from your
carly youth, stepped in as your protector.
Yet, this is the man who Mr.. Hambly pre-
sumes to call an outlaw. A pardoned vii
lain; when going 10 the gaIlows, would bless
the hand that saved his life but Mr.. Ham:
bly, blaspbemes his saviour.
As Mr.. Hambly's generous friend is the
principal cause olmy being in this county,
as an honest man, shall endeavour to full
I'll my promise to him and the other chiefs.
The guilty alone have fear--an honest and
upright man breads no dangers, fears no e.
vii, as he commits no i'll and your arm of
jnstice ought to be applied where it would
rightly fall, on the heads Of The really gull.
ty. Your mean and vile insinuations, that
has been the cause Of thefts and murders,
comes i'll from he who has been the cause of
the murder Of hundreds. Though your u
sage was made yilainous at the fort, yet
your revenge was too savage and sanguina-
ry. II your conduct, sir, to the Indians
were guided by as pure motives as mine,
it would endeavour to influence them, to
respect each other as brothers, and live in
harmony and friendship, cultivating their
lands in summer, and taking their diver
sions Of hunting in winter, respecting their
neighbors, and making yourselves respect
ed by them. II thus, sir, you would act,
(and by your knowledge Of their language,
you have much more IN your power than
any other many you would then be the true
friend of the Indians. Were an instisa-
tor of theft and murder, would hold the
language have done to the chiefs and 9th.
ers who have called on me (? Ask the Lieut..
Cong. at Fort Gaines if my letter 10 him
breathed the strains Of a murderer? Ask
Opy Hachy, or Danny his interpreter, il the
recommendatory note | sent him by order
ofApiny could be written by an instigator
Of murder Ask Apiny himself If my Ian
guage 10 him was that Of murderer? Ask
Mappalitchy, chief residing among the
Americans on Oakmulgee, if my language
and advice favored that Of a murderer? ALI
those and every Indian who have heard
my talks, will contradict your vile asser-
tons.
But, Mappalitchy has given me clue by
which | can unravel whence the aspersion
comes. Not from Apiny, Hateby, or any