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This is all I have to say and now I give you in charge of this officer and his soldiers.
Then the Indian chief of the police arose and said, "Our chiefs here have appointed me captain of our police, but they did not appoint me to bear arms against the weak and innocent, but that I might help and protect them. [[underlined]] Your [[/underlined]] officer has brought his soldiers armed against my tribe. I shall not resist him. If he chooses to kill us unarmed as we are he can do it. You say, your President has sent the money by you, which is to take us to Indian Territory. Take it back to your President. We will not leave our land and we are afraid of the land in Indian Territory. Take your money home. When you took our chiefs to Indian Territory, you took some money to [[insertion]] pay [[/insertion]] their fare there. If the money belonged to the President, we want you to give it back to him from our own fund. This fund is the money which we received in payment for our land which we sold."
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