The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16

1 WeAtherford said:
 General Jackson am not afraid of you. fear no man for I am a Creek warrior have nothing to request in behalf of myself: you can kill me If you desire. But come to beg you, to send for the women and children of the war party who&a are now starving in the woods. Their fields and cribs have been destroyed by yopr people who have driven them to the woods without an ear of corn. I hope that you will send out parties who will safely conduct them here in order that they may be fed. exerted myself in vain to prevent the massacre at Fort Mims. am now done fighting. The Red Sticks are nearly all killed. If I could fight you any lopgst ] would do so most heartily. Send tpr the women and children. They never did you any harm But kill me. if the white people want 1t done.
 persons who had surrounded tho mar auee exclaimed, "Kill hIm. Kill him" General Jackson commanded silence and in an emphatic manner said.
 Amy man who would kill as brave man as this would TOD the dead"
 Meek in his romantic poem takes this account of the z incident which has been accepted as literally true by all Alabama historical writers since, and adds to 1t proud statement or Weatherford who is represented as he might fear the power of Jackson surrounded as he was by his victorious army.
 "A brave man knows a brave mans heart"
 But General Woodward who was in camp at the time, although not at the tent of the general when the Indian leader came in. writes of the surrender quite plainly and his account. though dramatic enough is not near so TO- mantle The general was a fighter and a doer. Writing was new to him un- til he was well advanced in life. and vet the letters he wrote in his old age are terse and forceful. They are illumined by distinctive and origi- nal style, which lifts their interest much higher than if they had been weak limitations of some other mans writing. They read almost like the old general had written them with the point of his dirk.
 As plain and blunt as he was he was a great admiref of W eatherford. He bitterly resented. almost personally re- sented some of the things that were written in later Alabama days of the Indians and whites when the land was new But he thought as highly or the Greek leader as any man that ever wrote of him. Of Weatherford the General said: The Indians called him truth teller and he was all of that !"
 Gen. WOOdwaFd'H Version.
 So to clear up misapprehensions Of the real act of the surrender of Wea- therford and through it the hopeless abandonment by the Indians of all hope of resisting the inroads Of the white settlers General Woodward writes of the surrender as he knew it.
 in reading it. the Alabama reader should understand that the places and scenes he mentions are almost in sight Of the Alabama Capitol. The events took place just across. the Tallapoosa river and between its junction with Coosa and tho Southern suburb of We- tumpka which was th'y famous Hick- ory Ground where the Indians held their councils. The General, who had a strain of Indian blood in his veins. explained that after he had served a while in JacksOn's army, during which time he fought at tbe battle of Cdlee- be. he declined further service in the army as an enlisted soldier but made