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The language of your letter of Nov. 20th. recd, to day, indicates a view of the present legal relation of the Indian Negroes to Emancipation, that is different from my idea of that relation. If I am in error, I shall cheerfully conform to the truth of things so soon as I am made sensible of the truth. I obtained my present idea on this subject from daily attendance in the Council of the tribes with the U. States' Commissioners under the lead of Hon. Dr. N. Cooly, in Sept. last. The statement there made by the Commissioners was, that "Measures should be taken for the unconditional Emancipation of all persons held in bondage, & for their incorporation into the tribes on an equal footing with the original members." I have not learned that any "measures" in relation to this matter have made Emancipation in the Indian Country an accomplished fact.

You will do me the justice of not accepting this presentation of my views as an argument against yours:- but only as a simple statement of my own, and as embraced by me in circumstances which precluded a more correct opinion,