The American Indian as Slaveholder and Seccessionist / An Omitted Chapter in the Diplomatic History of the Southern Confederacy

by Annie Heloise Abel

J. J. Green, William Walker, Van Buren, Ark.:

Not possible to leave here. Southern confederacy certain. Arkansas must save her children by joining it. Write by mail to-day.

Johnson and Hindman,

Official Records, first ser., vol. liii, supplement, 617.

Washington, February 7, 1861.

John Pope, Esq., Little Rock, Ark.:

For God’s sake do not complicate matters by an attack. It will be premature and do incalculable injury. We cannot justify it. The reasons that existed elsewhere for seizure do not exist with us.

Albert Pike, R. W. Johnson.

—Ibid., vol. i, 682.

U. S. Senate, Washington, February 7, 1861.