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Brothers, we are astonished at our brother's conduct at this place; and we have lost all confidence in his fidelity towards the interests of the red brethren east of the Mississippi river; therefore we advise you, as brothers, to keep a strict watch over his conduct; or, if you do not, he will ruin your nation. ---------- The Commissioners have this day departed without a foot of land; and we wish you prosperity in all your national concerns."
5. Though not immediately relating to the particular Indians I have undertaken to describe, it may not be uninteresting if I digress a moment to state that the Cherokee prophecy with which this epistle closes was soon fulfilled: In February, 1825, Macintosh and other Creek Chiefs made a Treaty with the United States contrary to the will of their nation. The universal Indian penalty for such an act is outlawry; the red man exacts the death of any one so offending by the hand of any true friend to his country. Three hundred Creeks, headed by Menawee, went on the night of the 29th of April, 1825, to the abode of Macintosh, ordered the other inmates to save themselves, that Macintosh and three Chiefs who