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seue the necessity of sending commissioners to Washington.We hope and we fear. The wild Indians are hard to manage; the educated, or those considered such, not always trustworthy. Yet, as they have been siilxiueil; as the (’reeks have felt once the power of the nation (the Choctaws have been friendly to the whites), we may expect peace. The rebel Indian leaders proposed, for this end, first, ti settlement of Indian difficulties oniongihemselves; second, a grand council tor this end; and in accordance with this policy, the governor and principal chief of the Choctaw nation, P. P. Piehlvnn, has issued a proclamation, calling the aforesaid council of all the Indians of the Indian eon-fedcratipn and the Indians of the prairies, to lie commenced and held on the first day of September, A. D. 1865, at Armstrong's Academy, in the Choctaw nation, at which time and place there will be duly authorized commissioners from the United States to treat on the subject of a permanent and lasting peace.If we understand the report of the United States Commissioners, they have faith in the result. The assurances of Uie chiefs are certainly very strong. The wild Indians say murk out the path, Wo will follow the civilized agree to commit no acts of hostility against the Government of the United States, nor to molest the whites in any wjiy whatever, and to allow’ emigrants, the overland mail, Ac., to pass through the territory unmolested.New York Obnbn Takers.They have just been making an enumer-
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Philadelphia Age
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, Aug 01, 1865
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