[3030] [CHOCTAW COUNCIL]
To the Editor of the Arkansas Gazette: Choctaw Council.
Council Ground, 12th May, 1836.
Capt. Wm. Armstrong, Choctaw Agent:
"Sir-We, the undersigned, Chief and Captains of Mushula- tubbee district, Choctaw Nation, having heard, with regret and mortification, the several rumors relative to the hostile disposition of the Choctaws to the U.S. government and its citizens, do most respectfully request you to state to our great father, the President, that we repel the charge with indignation; that we believe these rumors are propagated by bad white men, who delight in war and an unsettled slate of things. We have ever been the friends of the United States, and are ready to vindicate ourselves from such charges, by marching in aid of our white brethren, to any point where our services may be wanted. You have told us that the United State government desires that the Choctaws will not go into Texas, to join in the war now going on between the Mexicans and Texians. Our people do not wish to violate any of the United States treaties, and will not go to Texas, but will remain quietly in their own country. We will take particular care to prevent our young men from violating this pledge. Very respectfully, Your friends and brothers, [Signed by the Chief and Captains.] hostility to the United States government. He said the Choctaws were always the friends of the whites - that they fought under Gen. Wayne - that he led a party under General Jackson, against the Creeks and Seminoles, and was at the capture of Pensacola. He said "that when the war-fires were lighted in the north, and the war-whoop was heard in the south - when the Creeks, Seminoles, and the British, we,e fi~hting the Americans - then the Choctaws would not turn against their old allies; but now their white friends doubted their friendship:" and exclaimed, "its enough to make my old heart bleed." The old Chief Mushulatubbee said, at the council, It makes my heart sorry to hear the Choctaws accused of
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