THE REunion AND FINAL EXODUS¹.

Difficulties in effecting a reunion of Tribes—Its objects—Exiles and Seminoles move on to Creek² Lands—They settle in separate Villages—Creeks³ demand Exiles as Slaves—Exiles arm themselves—They flee to Fort Gibson—Demand protection of the United States—General Arbuckle protects them—Reports facts to Department—Administration embarrassed—Call on General Jessup for facts—He writes General Arbuckle—Reports facts to the President—President hesitates—Refers question to Attorney General—Extraordinary opinion of that Officer—Manner in which Mr. Mason was placed in office—Exiles return to their Village—Slaveholders dissatisfied—Slave-dealer among the Creeks—His offer—They capture near one hundred Exiles—They are delivered to the Slave-dealer—Habeas Corpus in Arkansas—Decision of Judge—Exiles hurried to New Orleans and sold as Slaves—Events of 1850—Exiles depart for Mexico—Are pursued by Creeks—Battle—The Exiles continue their journey—They settle near Santa Rosa—The fate which different portions of the Exiles met—Incidents which occurred after their settlement in Mexico—Conclusion.
1846.

The Creeks and Seminoles had been separated for nearly a century. They had most of that time lived under separate governments. Each Tribe had been controlled by their own laws; and each had been independent of the other. They had often been at war with each other; and the most deadly feuds⁶ had been engendered⁷ and still subsisted⁸ among them. To unite them with the Creeks, and blot⁹ the name of “Seminole” from the page of their future history, in order to involve the Exiles in slavery, had long been a cherished object with the administration of our Government. It was now fondly hoped, that that object would be

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