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Fort Wayne August 31st 1846

Sir, We regret to learn that the Miami Indians refused to empty immediately with their last party and postponed their removal to the country assigned them west of the Mississippi to some future period. Healing for the nation of the Indians, as we do, we with sincerely to see them removed far from the corrupting influence of white people, and placed under the immediate protection of the government. Back an application, we are informed, has been made to the War Department for thoughts to coerce these ignorant, ill advised and unfortunate creatures, and accelerate their removal. Permit us to day, that it is with disgust and contempt we look upon an application of this nature, and that we commit both depreciating the result of such an application, if needed to. No family believe such a measure to be both appointed to the generosity and unanimity of our government. The withholding alone of the amenities of the Miamis will create among them such difficulties as they cannot overcome. Let them be without this usual seriousness for one winter only, and this state of (illegible) will teach them in a forcible manner the absolute necessity of complying with their solemn regulations. We thank you most respectfully, but are most earnestly against the employment of force and coercion in the removal of the Miami Tribe of Indians. We have been induced to think that formerly, at least we had some difference with the Indians, and rather than to take that from Indians, not only stripped of very thing they had, but...