unconsciously brings our one of the very ideas sought to be conveyed by the present chapter; namely, the extremely close connection between Arkansas and Indian Territory.
[166] This old, old song, “written on the model and to the air of ‘The Old Country Gentleman’,” runs thus:
The song I’ll sing, though lately made, it tells of olden days,
Of a good old Scottish gentleman, of good old Scottish ways;
When our barons bold kept house and hold, and sung their olden lays
And drove with speed across the Tweed, auld Scotland’s bluidy faes,
Like brave old Scottish gentlemen, all of the olden time.
Scottish Songs, printed by W. G. Blackie and Company (Glasgow).
[167] The commissioners to whom Ogden referred in his letter of February 15, 1861, may have been the tangible evidence of Governor Rector’s first attempt to influence the Indians.
[168] Fleming, Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama, 46, footnote 1.
[169] Smith, Debates of the Alabama Convention, 443-444; Official Records, fourth ser., vol i, 3.
[170] Governor Moore had appointed the commissioners, including Hubbard, on his own initiative before the convention met. See his address, Smith’s Debates, 35.
[171] House Journal, Arkansas, 38.
[172] House Journal, Arkansas, 314, 445.