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Talk of the Secretary of War to the Chiefs and Warriors of the Chickasaw Nation

The President your Father has considered the Talk delivered by Opiamingo, Almataha, Minkomataha, Major George Colbert, Thomas Brown, John Grown and George Augusta, the 24th November last.

In that Talk it is said that your Chiefs on their way to see him, found the road crowded with people going to Cumberland, and that they wished the Boundary line between your Nation and the United States to be run. Your Father knows that a great many people go back every year towards the Indian Country, these cannot be kept at home, but he will as soon as possible have the Boundary line run and marked that so none of them shall have any excuse for trespassing on your land from ignorance. He will besides employ all the means in his power to protect your land from intentional which he hopes will prove effectual.

Since the departure of Opiamingo your Father has had a Talk with those who remained after him. They have wished to know when the Spaniards would leave the Chickasaw Bluff. This your Father could not tell them. He has made a treaty with the King of Spain, a copy of which he has sent to you by Mr. McGhee, in which the King of Spain has promised to leave that post but as the order is to come a great way to the Garrison, the evacuation may not be as soon as has been promised. By the same treaty, as you will see in it, the United States and the King of Spain have agreed to tun and mark the boundary line which is to divide their Country from the United States. The running of this line is very important to all the Indian Nations as well as the United