[42] The American Board itself was inclined to be non-committal and temporizing [Garrison, op. cit., vol. iii, 30]. The Missionary Herald, so valuable an historical source as it proved itself to be for Indian removals, is strangely silent on the great subject of negro slavery among the Indians. Its references to it are only very occasional and never more than incidental.
[43] Kingsbury was superintendent of the Chuahla Female Seminary.
[44] Worcester died, April, 1859 [Missionary Herald, 1859, p. 187; 1860, p. 12].
[45] Missionary Herald, 1859, pp. 335-336; 1860, p. 12; The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Report, 1856, p. 195.
[46] Report of C. C. Copeland, 1860.
[47] Cooper was also Chickasaw agent. On the fifth of October, 1854, some of the principal men of the Chickasaw Nation, Cyrus Harris, James Gamble, Sampson Folsom, Jackson Frazier, and D. Colbert, petitioned President Pierce for the removal of Agent Andrew J. Smith on charges of official irregularity and gross immorality. A year later, Superintendent Dean reiterated the charges. Smith’s commission was revoked, November 9, 1855; and, in March, 1856, Cooper was assigned the Chickasaws as an additional charge. Henceforth, the two tribes had an agent in common.
[48] This note itself bore no date but there is documentary proof that it was received at Fort Smith, November 27, 1854. It is to be found in the Indian Office among the Fort Smith Papers.
[49] The allusion is, of course, to the “higher law” doctrine expressed in Seward’s Senate Speech of March 11, 1850.
[50] Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Report, 1859, pp. 190-191.
The letter of Dr. Treat referred to by Agent Cooper is herewith given. It is accompanied by the letter that covered it and that letter, as it is found among the Fort Smith Papers in the United States Indian Office, bears a record to the effect that the copy of it was transmitted by the southern superintendent to Washington, November 28, 1855.