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

,