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The General Government does not treat us as free people, and we treat one another bad among ourselves. I said when I left that nation, if this nation did not please me, I would go among the wild Indians in further west, and I feel the same way yet. Friend Daniel, in your nation you are a free man. Your right to your land is good. If you enroll for the west, you are no more a free man. Your right to the land is doubtful. While I write to you I feel the effects of it. Freedom and liberty are all we want in this world. We have none in the west. Give my respects to all your friends, at any rate. - I can't tell whether they are my friends or not. Cherokee language - 'image' Isaac Bushyhead x Kahl - lengha - Suttee. Cherokee language - 'image' x Tayn-eh-dee Danl Colston.

To Mr John Martin Coosawatie, east of the Mississippi. Arkansas Feb. 16. 1835 Dear Sir, I hope these few lines will find you & family in good health. Myself & family are as well as can be expected. But sickness, of all kinds has been raging ever since I have come to this country - first, the fever & ? in the summer, - and this winter, the cold plague & pleurisy are very severe - a great many deaths suddenly in these parts. I was requested by Mr Benj: Cooper to ask that you would let your neighbours Kaltestiah & Susan Cherokee name?* know that his wife is dead - their near connection also. Tell them never to come to this country and the balance of their friends; if they want not to shorten their days, never let them come here. For you can go to no place hardly, but what you see tolerably large grave yards; and * Yaw-hou-k?