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Commissioners and nobody should ever know any thing about it. It mentioned that twelve thousand dollars were then at the disposal of Mr Ross, besides seven thousand which Macintosh suggested might be divided thus,-- three thousand to Charles Hicks, -- two thousand to Mr McCoy;-- and two thousand to Mr Ross; all as secret gifts.

A dead silence ensued. The Council appeared thunderstruck and no one more so than the venerable Path Killer. Faltering & agitated he arose, and addressed the assembly. He expressed his astonishment, his deep grief; -- he mourned that he had been mistaken in one he valued as an honest chief; -- he mourned still more that he had been mistaken in one he had, till that moment, confided in as a devoted brother. But all affection must expire before such a breach of trust. He referred the course to be adopted to the General Council, only reminding them that treachery must never be overlooked.

Macintosh, having somewhat regained his self-possession, arose, to stammer out a lame reply. It was broken and agitated. The substance of it was that he did not wish to force any thing upon the nation; that the course they would pursue was entirely at their option; that he