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are in unison with the public policy on this question, and so plain and palpable is the necessity of the speedy removal of the Indians from the Buffalo and Tonnewanta Reservations that there would be no difficulty in now selling them in detail and at extravagant prices. In fact a large and powerful Company has offered to purchase the legal title to one of them, with a view to take possession of the Lands not actually cultivated by the Indians, and to hold in defiance of their claim; but it was not thought right by my Brother, to expose the Indians to the collisions and encroachments, which such a Sale would necessarily subject them to, and the offer was therefore declined. I am very respectfully, Your assured friend T. L. Ogden Thomas Eddy Esq.