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He seemed anxious and uneasy. He ordered his [horse aborne?], rode 25 miles that night, to his father in laws, at Etowa. The following day he rode his horse sixty miles on his way homeward, and killed it with the fatigue. A note at the back of one of the national documents, says of this retreat: "McIntosh, with a deep sense of guilt and disgrace, in the utmost rejection of spirit and confusion of mind, with all speed , made a very sudden departure for his country." The following letter was [unclear] dispatched to Big Warrior, for the Chiefs and Head en of the Creek Nation to which McIntosh belonged, in order to apprise the of the particulars: "In general council "New Town, Cherokee Nation, "Friends and Brothers, Octover 14, 1823 We have this day [unclear] through. painful and unpleasant ceremony. Your Chief, William McIntosh, arrive here soon after the commencement of the present Council, accompanied

by seven others of his countrymen, including his son and 

interpreter. They were received by the General Council as friends and