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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 Tallagee having a desire to talk with them, but was as often failed, they appearing mohave an idea of what he wished to converse about and being also more immediately under the influences of Tuskehonohaw anxious to avoid it. An opportunity being at length afforded, he appeared unexpectedly at their

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• The paper alluded to by Opothleyahola, was of crossed out: treasons the talk

ascertained to be some old proclamation ?from during the last war with England by Sir Geo. Cockburn commanding the English fleet, & was highly inflamatory & addressed to the Creek Indians and was no doubt the cause at that time of exciting them to make war on the Whites. Where these old proclamations could have been lying all this time is not yet discovered: But an Englishman who is a silversmith & ?resided for some time in Columbus Geo. was the man who rode among the Indians & read & explained these papers but took care to conceal the date, he is now in prison in Montgomery jail, this man says he is the natural son of Francis the Prophet, hung by order of Gen. Jackson and was borne in London at the time Francis visited England.* [end of pasted paper]

the astounding facts had book out upon them. He had received information of a matter which he had been unable properly to comprehend: 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 circulated in some of the Indian towns: he had heard that it had been sent to Kun-char-le-Micco, to Enhar-Marth-looche, to Neah-Micco and that Tus-ke-hene-haw had also received it: he was informed that runners had come from Nehar-Mecco to Tuskehenehaw bringing 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 these hostilities had commenced among them.*

   The circumstance of the paper said to have been circulated 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.