FURTHER DIFFICULTIES IN PROSECUTING¹ THE WAR.

Emigrants² under Captain Morrison—Feeling among the Regular Troops—They detest³ the practice of catching⁴ Negroes—Another party Emigrate—Still further Emigration—Situation of the Exiles—Deep depravity of the Administration—General McComb’s Treaty—His general order—Peace cheers the Nation—Citizens of Florida return to their homes—Administration congratulates its friends—More murders perpetrated—Planters flee to villages for protection—Massacre⁵ of Colonel Harney’s party—Indians seized at Fort Mellon—Exiles refuse to participate in those massacres⁶—They would make no Treaty—Administration paralyzed—Report of Secretary of War—Its character—Barbarous sentiments of Governor Reid—Resolution of Legislature of Florida in favor of employing blood-hounds—Original object in obtaining them—The effort proves a failure—General Taylor retires from command of Army—Is succeeded by General Armistead.

We now resume our chronological⁷ narration⁸ of events connected with the Exiles of Florida, during the year 1838.

On the fourteenth of June, Captain Morrison arrived at New Orleans from Tampa Bay in charge of some three hundred Indians and thirty negroes, on their way to the West; he having been assigned to that particular duty. These Indians and Exiles had most of them come to Fort Jupiter by advice of the Cherokees, and surrendered under the capitulation of March, 1837. At the time they reached New Orleans, Lieutenant¹⁰ Reynolds was absent with his first emigrating party; and the thirty-one negroes left at New Orleans were at that time in the hands of the Sheriff. Captain Morrison felt it his duty to hasten the emigration of those whom he had in charge, and on the sixteenth, he left that city with his prisoners for the Indian Country without waiting the return of Lieutenant Reynolds. On reaching Fort Gibson, he delivered them over to the officer

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