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returns, you will be more fully informed, relative to the complaints of Red Jacket and his associates. As to the charge of bribery, I know nothing, nor do I beleive a word of it. Small annuities might have been allowed the principal chiefs; but the payment of such gratuities, I believe has been practised under every treaty with Indian tribes of this state, since the organ- ization of its government. It is a subject well un- derstood by them, and no chief has participated so extensively in such largesses, as Red Jacket himself. Allowances here may have been stipulated, as there were at the Treaty of 1797, butMr. Greig as a man of the most unquestionable integrity; and I speak with great confidence when I say, he sooned have spurned the idea of offering a dollar to Red Jacket or to any other Chief, in the shape of a bribe: and I trust it will not for a moment be believed, that money was solicited at his hands, or proffered by him as the wages of corruption. It is true, that Red Jacket was opposed opposed to the sale of the Indian Lands, and every part of them; and it is equally true, that he finally assented to the sale, and is among those who executed the deed of cession. My letter of the 30th of January last, which accompanied the treaty transmitted to the President, explains the course taken, to insure a thorough knowledge of its contents, on part of the chiefs, and to that I refer you for information. Upon the whole subject, there was great unanimity of sentiment among the chiefs-- The proceedings were frank, open, fair and satisfactory to the contracting parties. The Indians have in good faith, quietly and readily fulfilled the terms of their contract, so far as they have been called upon to act; &; notwithstanding in their memorial, they are made to utter murmers loud and deep, to sanction falshoods of the most extraordinary character, and to express a most decided determination not, to receive the pay for their lands, yet when the agent came to settle the annuities of the nation, all were received without difficulty or complaint. Indian settlements surrounded by a white population, like those in the state of New York,