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found out!! I presume that Mr. Bean's receipt was dispensed with, and that Col. McKinney has touched you [r] accounts with his magical wand!!!! Will a people, brave and generous as the Americans, countenance such inh:uman robberies; and can their President, who is so great and good, tolerate such panders in office? who have no claims, only upon his magnanimity, and that is clefted by every act of fraud which is perpetrated by the "lilly livered" crew, upon the poor and half naked Indian! who , worn down by wrong and oppression, directs his last lingering hope to ''Jackson," as his earthly REDEEMER!! Tah-Lohn-Tus-Ky.
· 1 Arlcansas Gazette, September 8, 1830.
2 Luther Blake, a lawyer who was sometimes called "Judge" although he never sat on the bench. Unitecl States House Documents, 22d Cong., 1st Sess., No. 502. 3 See Houston concerning the misgovernment of Indian agents, July 7, 1830. · 1 Major Farrington was the son-in-law of General William McIntosh. 6 See Houston concerning the misgovernment of Indian agents, July 7, 1830. 0 See Houston concerning the misgovernment of Indian agents, July 7, 1830. ;General William Clark, brother of George Rogers Clark (August 1, 1770- September 1, 1838). See the Dictionary of American Biography, IV, also R. G. Thwaites, Ecirly Western Travels, XIII, 134. 8 See the evidence given by Major John W. Flowers during the investiga- tion of Congress into the matter of Houston's bids for Indian contracts, June 18, 1832, and June 22, 1832. Major Flowers's statements are conserva- tive, but they give strong evidence that Houston's criticism of the admin- istration of Indian affairs was by no means groundless. See United States House Executive Documents, 22d Cong., 1st Sess., Doc. 502, pp. 46-47, 52-54.
[December 8, 1830]
INDIAN MATTERS. 1
To the Editor of the Arkansas Gazette. SIR-In a Supplement to your paper, dated 20th Oct. I have observed a communication made to you by "TEKATOKA," and addressed to the STANDING BEAR, alias Gen. SAMUEL HOUSTON." The character of that document was very well calculated to exclude it from the columns of any respectable newspaper; but it seems that the author, willing to gi:ve publicity to his learning and his numerous Latin quotations, was anxious to cast it upon the world, hoping no doubt its return "after many days." What the object of the writer could be I cannot ascertain; but it seems,
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