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Red Clay Jan. 25th 1837

Mr. J. H. Payne, My dear Sir,

                I thought I would send you a copy of the foregoing remarkable document; and leave you to your own reflections on it. 
    Mr. Ross tarried at home one night and a part of two days a week unclear on his way from Arkansas to Washington. He succeeded in detaining a delegation from the Cherokees, west' to unite with him at Washington. They accompanied him a part of the way, and then at Washington. They accompanied him a part of the way, and separated on account of the difficulty of travelling, the western route. 
    The last Council appointed a Committee to settle with Judge Martin, the National Treasurer, and receive from him the National property in his hands; as he was about to remove the National property in his hands; as he was about to remove to the west. Just as they were about closing their business, or had actually closed it; and before they had all left Judge Martin's. a number of General Wools' Army made prisoners of Judge Martin, Judge McCoy, Messrs. Lewis Ross, and Elijah Hicks? & they also seized the contents of the iron unclear containing smudge accounts, and papers of the Treasurer. Ft. Hicks. smudge contained in the chest was returned. They blotted out the a  smudge taken to General Wool at the Agency. The prisoners? were soon set at liberty; but the accounts and papers were retained. The reason a unclear was that they were needed at New Town where the Commissioners and the treaty Committee word scratched out are transacting  business. It was also said to these men that other books and papers were needed and should be given up.
    A few days since I heard from my two sons who were