, 1872-12-19

in the meantime slipped of to Arkansas. Fore
man was the name Of the man who headed the
band who Killed Major Ridge, and, knowing the
vonge the death Of his relatives, Foreman and
come other OF his assassins hunted Stand Waite
down like q dog. No wild beast was compelled
to take oftener to the mountains, and lead a
! more precarious life. He made go many hair
charmed life, and he Was as active in revenge
as in escape. The whito people took
pity on him and befricnded him !;
ind, in hand-to-hnnd fight with Foreman at
Waite killed him With his bowie-knite. For this
homicide, Stand Waite was acquitted at Benton
vile, aud Alfred VI. Arlington defended him On
the trial. John Rosa poured out his money to
complete my unc1e's ruin. but not lawyer
there would prosecute him, and Arlington called
attention to that fact in his speech Of justifca-
ton. You will find that trial in the Supreme
Court Library. Arlington afterwards went to
Chicago, and became quite prominent man Us
a pleadar, and he wrote some romantic and not
very reIabIe books about desperado-Gfe in the
Southwest"
JOHN ROSS IMPLICATION.
''What was the nature OF this controversy,
and how much Vas John Ross Responsible for it,
Mr: Boudinot 2"
swell, air, John Ross benefited by these mat
ters, although he always denied that he had any
responsibility for them. However, he did moth
ing to punish the original murderers OF my FAM
ly. I was taken by missionaries, sent to Ver-
mont to school, and kept there until was Is
vendetta life for Life, and about $50 persons
we're killed. In 1886, Stand Waite and John Ross
came together and agreed to bury the hatchet,
but Waite was never fully secure until the date
Of his death. Those fouds make a striking
chapter in the traditions Of the Cherokees.
Nothing like them had been known until the
war broke out between the North and South,
when John Ross played fast and 1osse, and, If
We were unfaithful to one Government, he WAS
unfaithful to both.
Stand Waite became Brigadier General in
the Confederate army, and this fact alone would
account for Ross disposition to go the other
way. In the game way, the removed Creeks
the fight between the Ridges and Rosses. In tho
Creek Nation, the unpopular man was Mcintosh,
the father OF the present delegate to Washing
ton. Mcintosh Was murdered o little time be-
war came On, in 1861, Mcintosh became 3 Briga-
dier General in the Confederacy, and this was
sufficient reason for Yopothleohola to join the
Federal army.
YoPoTHLEoHo1A
vas in some respects tho oounterpart OF John
Indian preiudices, tall and fne.looking, and he
between the Federal and the Rebel Indians,
A. Bird Greek, west Of tho a.,! Little
ScIAtbl1s 1AftIs hA6Ao LG44tooA
commanded on one side and Yopoth1eoho1a on
tho other. Mcintosh lost from 20 to 80 men.
and in all about $50 Indians were killed Yopoth-
leohola had no chance, for he was poorly
armed, and burdened with his women
and children; he escaped into Kansas, and died
there while John Ross fed for time to Phil
adelphia. In the wsr, the Cherokees suffered
severely, and, early in the war, TIE were cut of
from the Confederacy-"
Is John Ross, Mr. Boudinot, WAS the father Of
the present Cherokee Chief, William P. Ross?"
fYes, sir; he was g. remarkable man, shrewd
and diplomatic, and he maintained his as-
tendency for forty years over the Cherokee
Nation. The present Chief is graduate Of
Princeton College, and man Of capaoity."
tanning the rival arguments OF Chief ". P. Ross
and himself on the question Of the Indian Ter
ritory, and made the request that | do him no
injustice in my Hawattlah, which is Cherokee for
newspaper. GATH.