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administration. The then Principal chief had been tampered with by the United States' government agents. He had been induced to call the people together to deliberate on the question. Trusting to personal popularity, he had concerted with adherents of his own in the council, to appoint a delegation to exchange away the original country for a new one in the west. This he had planned without first obtaining the public consent, "which the usages of the nation required." It had been contrived beforehand that the popular debates should be insidiously turned into a direction favoring the contemplated design. When the discussion had been brought to the desired point, the Principal Chief presented himself before the people, attended by his confidential ministers. He read a talk he had prepared to send to Washington city, telling the President that "their game having disappeared, they wished to follow it to the west." He had not dreamed that "any one would have had the moral courage to rise in opposition under such circumstances"; but thought himself