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political friend, Gen: Jackson: of how he had stopped at his house for a call & his horse has died there & detained him & then the President had sent him forth not only with a new horse, but a new employ, -- on a mission which from his earliest recollection had been the dream of his ambitions -- to be useful to the Indians. He entreated them to take warning by the fate of the Tribe in the North & Emigrate & live; not like them Remain & Rot. He assured them they ought to accept the Treaty & Take the Five Millions offered: "Take this money" said the Reverend Commissioner, "for if you do not, the bordering States, will forthwith turn the screw on you tighter & strikeout tighter, till you are ground to powder. And look not for mercy: -- for the measure of the present ruler of America will not change with his successor, whom I know, as I do know myself. -- Do you complain of wrongs? Remove & you can retaliate. If the white man here strikeout oppresses you, there you can strikeout oppress him. If he slicks you here, you can slick him there." The harrangue being ended, the voting recommenced and continued all day. At night, the groups withdrew to