Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-08-02

.Aid-ds- Camp.
Head Quarters, Eastern Department, ,
Flint Rirer, July 10, 1926. :
SIR: The EXCESSIVE heat of the wea-
Their, added to the many inconvenien-
ces and interruptions which have dali
Iy encountered in the course of my Vi
sit to the Creek Nation, has deprived
me ofthe pleasure of writing to your
Excellency as often, or as fully as
have been DESTROYS Of doing.
have now the honor, without en-
tering into details that could afford but
little interest, to communicate to you
the result Of my conferences with the
Indians.
After meeting in this state, the Chiefs
Of the Mcintosh party, and at Broken
Arrow, those of the opposite party,
and hearing their respective state.
ments, with the evidence for and a.
gainst each party, / have urged them
TO an adjustment of differences, to
which they have mutually assented.
The Mcintosh party demanded re.
taliation for their fallen Chiefs, with
the immediate restoration of property
taken or destroyed. Their demands
were founded on the 9Th article Of the
Treaty of February last-which pro-
misses, ON our part, protection to the
"emigrating party" against the whites
and all others; which party they 1.-THE
followers of Gen. McIntosh) assume
themselves exclusively to be.
Whether this provision Of the Trea-
ty was or was not intended to protect
the Greek Indians against themselves,
or to protect a comparatively small
part Of them against the main body Of
the Nation, were questions which l
was, happily, not called upon to de.
eide: as, in the event of hostilities hav-
ing subsidized, my instructions simply
required me to make peace upon just
principles, and to require the complain.
ants, as well as the opposing party, to
abstain from acts of retaliation or vio-
lence. The reputed hostile party con-
sists ofall the principal Chiefs, and Of
nearly forty-nine fj1ieths of the whole Of
the Chiefs, Head-men and Warriors Of
the Nation-among whom, / recog-
nized many who were in our service
during the late war, and who, to my
certain knowledge, have been for twen-
ty years past (and l think they have
been at all times) as friendly TO the U.
States as any of our Indian neighbors
could have been known to be
l met them at Broken Arrow, the
usual place Of holding the Great Coun-
Gil of the Nation; could not there
fore, but view this supposed hostile
party as, in fact and in truth, the Creek
Nation,-and altogether free OF the spl-
rit ofhostility ascribed to them. have
received from them, in Council Assem-.
bled, the most deliberate assurance OF
their determination to be peaceable and
friendly towards their absent people, as
we'll as towards the United States
They regretted the necessity which,
they contend, existed for the strong
measures they adopted against Gen.
Mcintosh and others, who, they affirm,
forfeited and lost their lives by having
violated a we'll known law of the Ma
ton. They have engaged to restore all
property taken, and to pay for all that
has been destroyed contrary to law
and they have promised to allow rea-
sonable time for those who have Dor.
rowed and run off with money out OF
their National Treasury, to reimburse
the same.
The Council strongly and unani-
mously objected to the late Treaty, as
the offspring of fraud, entered into
contrary to the known law and deter
mined will of the Nation--and by per
sons not authorised to treat. They
refused to receive any part Of the con-
sideration money due under the Treaty,
or to give any other evidence Of their
in it.
In conclusion-they expressed the
hope that their white friends would
pity their deplorable condition, and
would do them the justice to reconsl-
der, and "undo that which has been
wrongfully DONE" have, pursuant
to my instructions from the Depart
ment of War, endeavored to convince
the Council, but without success, oil the
fallacy Of their objections to the Urea
ty, and to dissipate their delusive hopes
that it can ever be annulled. ! have
assured them that, in all our treaties
with the powers of Europe as well as
with near fifty Indian Nations, there