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to be allowed the benefit of what was rightfully their own and to this end, the investigation was desired by him, and it had been his earnest hope that it would have effected it. He had oftentimes attempted to procure a general meeting of the Tribe of Tallassee having a desire to talk with them, but was as often foiled, they appearing to have an idea of what he wished to converse about: and being also more immediately under the influence of Tuske- henehaw anxious to avoid it. An opportunity being at length afforded, he appeared unexpectedly at their meeting and finding Tuskehe= =nehaw with them remonstrated with him about the evil course he was pursuing, telling him that the pernicious talks he was making to the Indians, were not his own talks and did not originate with him, but were derived from others of whom he was the dupe, and that if he thus obstinately persever'd in such course it must necessarily end in consequences that would be ruinous, and that all would be afflicted with sorrow for. Tuskehenehaw not= =withstanding continued stubborn, and afterwards proceeded in the same way he had begun, disregarding his friendly remonstrance; and the events which he had so much fear'd on account of it, had unhappily of late become realized. Flying rumours of contemplated disturbances had occasionally passed amongst his people, but they were considered by them as unworthy of their beleif: they did not open their ears to them. Now indeed the as= =tounding facts had broke out upon them. He had received information of a matter which he had been unable properly to compre= =hend: it was concerning a paper or letter, said, or pretended to have been sent from People beyond the Seas; this it was said had been circu= =lated in some of the Indian towns: he had heard that it had been sent to Kun-char-te-Micco, to Enehar-Marth-looche, to Neah-Micco, and that Tuskehenehaw had also received it: he was informed that runners had come from Nehar Micco to Tuskehenehaw bring= =ing four broken sticks to him, and word that "they were ready," and it appeared that it was about the time of the last of these broken sticks that hostilities had commenced among them. *

The circumstance of the paper said to have been circu= =lated he could not, as he had before said, well understand; it could not have been the work of Indians, for they cannot read or write, the only way in which he can account for it is, that White people must have been at the bottom of it. His people