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Letter from W.G. Ewing to William Medill, May 19 1847: Sheet #3

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Indiana. They were the men who employed this honest & faithfull sub Agent of yours, & sent him on there to attend to their business. I told you in Nov 1845 that I then believed such was the fact--I now tell you that I know it to be so, & that proof is abundant if required or needed.

On his return from Washington men were dissatisfied, for it seemd he had failed had not secured their claims, but had spent their money doing nothing for them but having through false sympathy excited the Indiana delegation in his fav. & forced you to confer on him the appointment of removeing agent which you had previously concluded to give to Dr. Fitch. Here then sprung up a disagreement between this worthy individual and these poor fellows whom he had duped, & whose money he had spent, not in trying to serve them, but as they believed in securing for himself a new office. They exposed his double dealing & spoke out about these things--since then he has been very malicious, and doing them secretly all the injury in his power. Of this you are no doubt aware, His secret letters to you & his anonymous Newspaper proclamations can not fail to satisfy you of his malice towards them.

In January 1846 these new claimants were all "honest good men," and their claims "were [illeg]," decidedly more so than those sanctioned by the Treaty of Nov. 1840--this honest & disinterested public officer could then be hired (alias bribed) to help collect them,