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page_69 < previous page page_69 next page > Page 69 with each other142 but because he had had great hopes of receiving the post himself.143 The time was now drawing near for him to repair to Washington to resume his senatorial duties since Congress was to convene the second of December. To further his scheme for Indian enlistment, Lane had projected an inter-tribal council to be held at his own headquarters. E. H. Carruth worked especially to that end. The man in charge of the Southern Superintendency, W. G. Coffin, had a similar plan in mind for less specific reasons. His idea was to confer with the representatives of the southern tribes with reference to Indian Territory conditions generally. It was part of the duty appertaining to his office. Humboldt144 was the place selected by him for the meeting; but Leroy, being better protected and more accessible, was soon substituted. The sessions commenced the six- (footnote continued from previous page) I do certify that the within statement of the different chiefs were taken before me at a council held at my house at the time stated and that the talk of the Indian was correctly taken down by a competent clerk at the time. GEO. A. CUTLER, Agent for the Creek Indians. [Indian Office Special Files, no. 201, Southern Superintendency, C 1400 of 1861.] 142 Their acquaintance dated, if not from the antebellum days when Hunter was stationed at Fort Leavenworth and was not particularly magnanimous in his treatment of Southerners, then from those when he had charge, by order of General Scott, of the guard at the White House. Report of the Military Services of General David Hunter, pp. 7, 8. 143Daily Conservative, November 13, 1861. 144 Coffin to Dole, October 2, 1861, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Report, 1861, p. 39. Â < previous page page_69 next page >

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