_Charley Amathia_ then rose, and said--`The speakers of the nation are
all dead; but I recollect some of their words when they had the meeting
at Camp Moultrie. I was not there, but heard that we would be at peace,
and that we would have our annuity paid to us for twenty years. _White
people have told me that the treaty at Camp Moultrie, which was made by
great men, and not to be broken, had secured them for twenty years; that
seven years of that treaty are still unexpired_. I am no half breed,
and do not lean on one side. If they tell me to go after the seven
years, I say nothing. As to the proposition made us by the agent about
removing, I do not say I will not go; but I think that, until the seven
years are out, I give no answer. My family I love dearly and sacredly.
I do not think it right to take them right off. Our father has often
said to me that he loves his children--and they love him. When a man is
at home, and got his stock about him, he looks upon it as the
subsistence of himself and family. Then when they go off, they reflect
and think more seriously than when quiet at home. I do not complain of
the agent's talk. My young men and family are all around me. Should I
go west, I should lose many on the path. As to the country west, I
looked at it; a weak man cannot get there, the fatigue would be so
great; it requires a strong man.'"

This talk made the agent very angry; he told them that they should stand
by the treaty at Payne's Landing; he desired them to retire, and when
they came again to act like chiefs and honourable men.

"October 25, 1834. The council convened at 11 o'clock. Interpreters as
yesterday.

"The _agent_ said to the council, `I am ready to receive your answers to
the questions which I submitted to you.'

"_Holato Mico_.--`I have only to repeat what I said yesterday, and to
say that the twenty years from the treaty at Moultrie has not yet
expired. I never gave my consent to go west; the whites may say so, but
I never gave my consent.'

"_Jumper_.--`We are not satisfied to go until the end of twenty years,
according to the treaty at Camp Moultrie. We were called upon to go to
the west, beyond the Mississippi. It is a good country; this is a poor
country, we know. We had a good deal of trouble to get there; what
would it be for all our tribe.'

"_Miconopy_.--`I say, what I said yesterday, I did not sign the treaty.'

"_Agent_.--`Abraham, tell Miconopy that I say _he li