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Crowell, the Indian agent, says: " The President takes 

 a deep interest in the success of every effort the object 

 of which is to improve the condition of the Indians, 

 and desires that every aid be furnished by the Indian 

 agents in advancing so important an object; and he 

 trusts your conduct will be such as to avoid the pos- 

 sibility of complaint on the part of those who are 

 engaged in this benevolent work. You will give a 

 decided countenance and support to the Methodist 

 mission as well as to any other society that may choose 

 to direct its efforts to improve the condition of the 

 Creek Indians. It is not conceived that they can have 

 any just cause of apprehension against the privilege 

 of preaching the gospel among them, and you will use 

 a decided influence with them to reconcile them to its 

 exercise on the part of the mission. The department 

 feels confident that, by proper efforts on your part, 

 you may secure the mission the right of preaching 

 among the Indians, which is deemed to be so essen- 

 tially connected with the objects of the society." 



In addition to the barriers thrown in the way of the 

 missionaries by the hostile chiefs and their partisans, 

 new troubles arose out of the treaty made by Mcin- 

 tosh and his party, by which the lands included in the 

 chartered limits of Georgia were ceded to the United 

 States for the benefit of Georgia, for the consideration 

 of the sum of four hundred thousand dollars. This 

 gave great offense to the majority of the nation, and 

 they rose against him with violence and massacred 

 him and some others under circumstances of great 

 barbarity. This threw the nation into great confusion, 

 and exerted a most deleterious influence upon the in- 

 terests of the mission. The school, however, was 

 continued under all these discouragements, and by 



