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at dawn of day, he woke from his slumbers by the yell of his injured Countrymen, his house enveloped in flames & his wives & children mingling their cries with the ascending smoke. Fighting bravely, with his musket in hand, he fell at his door, shot down by his once admiring friends, but now his enemies. He was dragged after death, by the heels to the edge of his yard, & his head shattered to unclear by the repeated Vollies of Rifles in the presence of his children. This was the consequence of the manner of obtaining the Lands in question! Two other Chiefs shared his fate with but littleunclear of cruelty. Poor ignorant and unfortunate Chieftains. You Deserved a better fate, if you had been in the influence of better Councils. "And Alabama has been acquired say, the Committee, for the use of the---