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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 smudge & 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