Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1825-09-27

strongest clanls.' having seen ana auIIehseu you,
having received from you the evidence of your
wrongs, my next duty will be to see the chiefs OPP
posed to you and TO address them, and to hear them
and their Witnesses; for bad may suppose them
| o be- it is known that they have laid down their
arms, and, therefore, the laws OF civilized nations
will not sanction their condemnation without a
hearing You must, in the mean time, persevere in
the judcious course you have heretofore pursued;
you must bear in mind the wishes of the President
which have communicated TO you-be quiet and
peaceable and listen not the bad councils ofthose
who would plunge you into the evils Of war, when
war would not relieve, but would inevitably add to
your msfortunes. The 200 600 dollars due to the
| Indians, according TO the provisions of the late
| treaty, will be withheld from them until their diff
ferences are settled, and instructed to say that
the ch,ei who commits further violence will forfeit
his share OF the money.
After the differences are settled, the $500, 900
will be paid the same scale of distribution oil
their annuity
have read your laws, and am gratihed TO find
| none so sanguIuary as that alledged by your enc
mics TO exist, under colour of which, il has been
stated, they perpe,ratei the murders OF which you
| complain Your Friend,
(Signed) E.P. GAINES.
Mai, Gen. Commanding.
To The Chiefs aud Warriors Creek Nation,
| now at Indian SPRING.
| Indian Springs, goth June, 1925.
! GENERAL AND FRIENp-
| Your talk of yesterday we have, and have given
to the same, proper consideration. In some psri
oil your talk we disagree-we will reply TO 1t in the
order you have given tive are glad father,
the President has instructed Won to afford us the
protection you offer. A number OF Us anxious
to go with you to Broken Arrow TO the talk to
be held there, and desire of you 10 afford TO, and
assure us, ofthat protection--we know our father,
! the President, wishes to be protected: so nj
Commissioners in the Treaty have told US: will
let you know tomorrow who of us wish TO go TO
Broken Arrow.
We have no doubt but that the information you
have received, relating 10 the friendly dispositions
OF the hostile Indians, is true we too
them and know too well what they wish 10 be-
iieve so--you may have been imposed on by bad
men who wish us and our friends harm-we are
sorry our father has talked 10 you about us, we
hear from your talk--we disagree with YOU in that
talk, IN this--we must have the murderers of our
great Chief and other head men given up to be tried
by our laws. Ifthey have split blood against the
nations law, they must suffer the law direct
Tor such crime--you know DIR father, The Pre-
>ident, would have called upon the nation to give
up any OF our Chiefs Warriors, if they had muir
dered any OF our white brothers, to be punished as
the law said--We expect and demand the same in
this case-lt is right il should be done so--not only
Our great Fathers before the present have said
SO, but the Great Spirit has said so-You have
said you have read our Laws, and that you find no
such Law as that hostile Indians say our Chief
Gen. Mcintosh violated, which caused his DEATH
that Is true, there is no such law nor ever was: if
there had been such law that, and made when |
II Is said II was, why were not all our Chiefs and
head men put TO death for signing the treaty made
with the Commissioners at this place in 1921 81
4 on can tell our father that we never knew anv
such law. Bad men, both white and red, made the
st nryf l.
restored to life; we knew that before; but as they
cannot, you say we must not ask the law to be en-
forced upon those who take away life: that is not
the way our white Brothers talk to one another;
when one OF them murders another he is tried by
your laws; and ffound guilty you punish him; this
IS all we ask give US it, justice demands it, and we
expect you will assist US in the execution You saw
our Great Father will not interfere among his red
children when they quarrel; we were always taught
to believe otherwise; that he would interfere
when one party was plunderng and numbering an
other without any cause whatever as has been the
case with his children Of the Creek Nation Ii was
on that account that some of us went all the way
TO tho City of Washington, TO see our Father, and
were OF the opinon from what he said in his talk to
them, that went to him, that he would interfere
10 protect us-That has been promised in another
place and at another time; that is, i'm the Treaty
made last: when the treaty made at this place
some OF the Chiefs left here before it was signed
because they heard that some of the Tuckabatches
SAID they would Kill any who signed it: they who
ana then sign 1t then required the Commissioners OF
our Father, the President, who was sent TO us by
him and to actor him, that he would agree to |
protect US from "the encroachments and imposi- |
tlons OF the whites and all others which was
done by the Treaty. These are the words of our
II ather-speakng by the authority of our Father |
the President, we have been imposed On II the :
whites and others since that time, and on MS ana
our friends that gone 10 the G.eat Spirit, they
nave committed open hos;i!i:ies ana made great |
entertainments upon our property; besides oar all
Is destroyed by them, and nov we are told after /
having been driven from peaceful homes in the
uead Oh the night by the Red Sticks, that our father
through you, will not interfere to assist us-we |
ask and require in good faith an execution of that
artcle--our Father has never net disappointed us |
W hope therefore he will take that part of your
iaik back and render the satisfaction we demand
and are entitled TO. You request us to meet the |
Hosties in Council-we have already told Won
hat many OF us wish go 10 the Council at Broken
Arrow--Say you will protect us and we go-our
wrongs require our presence in that Council; JUS
tice cannot be done without some Of US are there
many OF the hosties will deny what they have said
u we are not there to confront them;s you want
truth let US go and you will get it when we all
meet together In your talk you tell us g. il is
known the Hostiles have laid down their arms, and
therefore the Laws of Civilized Nations will no,
sanction their condemnation without a hearing"
w have no doubt but that you have been told
so. whoever told you so is not our friend for it
Is NOT so we hear from the Nation well as Others
and more certain, the hosiiles still threaten MS with
death ii TO be found in the nation; this we know.
We do not know whether the Laws Of civilized ma
tons, in all cases required hearing before condem
nation. We do not wish the hostIes condemned
without hearing; take them up, try them, hear the
proof, decide for yourself; you will find them gull
"; II you do not, we do not wish them condemned
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