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Government. The Creeks never had till this year a national government & Law. Every thing of a general tendency was left to the care & management of the public agents, who heretofore used temporary expedients only & amongst the most powerful & persuasive was the pressure of fear from without & presents. The attempt in the course? of the last & present year to establish a national council to meet annually to make general regulations for the welfare of the nation promises to succeed. the laws passed at the first meeting to punish thieves & mischief makers has been carried into effect in a few instances where the personal influence of the Agent for Indian Affairs was greatly exerted. On a trying occasion the chiefs were called on to turn out the Warriors & the punish the Leaders of the banditti who