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changed for the better. From every observation which I have been able to make for many years past, I am confident that the little progress which the southern Indians have made toward civilization has been owing to the want of exertion or capacity on the part of the Agents. Col.Hawkins was undoubtedly, in my opinion, a man of considerable talents and zeal, but for several years before his death, he was incapable of much exertion, and besides he had formed a conclusion which appeared to have too great influence over him: and that influence was injurious to, and paralized his efforts. He was also has had a tendency to throw the Creeks back to the point where the Colonel found them. It was my intention to have gone out to the Alabama last September, but my own sickness and those of my family have entirely disappointed me; and at this time the Creeks and Cherokees have a meeting in the Cherokee nation for the purpose of setting the boundary between them. I have sent my assistant to attend them, and when he returns I shall go out aand then fix upon a day for holding a meeting to treat for the piece of land they have agreed to cede on the (unclear), for the use of Georgia. I believe it has been usual for the President to give a special commission or authority for the purpose of holding a treaty; but when I wrote to the war department in July, that I had obtained the consent of the Indians, Mr. Graham wrote me that the absence of the President prevented his sending me a special commission. As the matter now stands, of such an