Identifier: osceolachiefofse00elli (find matches)
Title: Osceola, chief of the Seminoles;
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916
Subjects: Osceola, Seminole chief, 1804-1838 Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842
Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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triding forward to the table, he drew his hunting-knife while walking, raised it above his head, andbrought it down with a vicious force that drove theweapon not only through the paper but cleanthrough the top of the table on which it lay. Thatis what I think of that treaty! he exclaimed withflashing eyes, glaring around in the faces of thestartled spectators, as he and his brother chiefs sul-lenly stalked out of the place. General Wiley Thompson was the Indian agent.He was soon convinced that the Indians had no in-tention of migrating, and he called the leadingSeminoles together in October, 1834. He wastedno words, but notified the malcontents that theirremoval had been determined upon and would beenforced. The reply of the Indians to this was tobegin laying in stores of ammunition and preparingfor the struggle. Some months later the leadersagain met the agent, who read the message fromPresident Jackson. This was an earnest appeal tothem to live up to the terms of the treaty, closing
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OSCEOI.A AND THE TREATY. Page 28. THE NF..V YORK vRT ANDL THE SEMINOLE WAR. 29 with the assurance that only by doing so could theysave themselves from the loss of many lives, theirproperty, and humiliation and punishment. This appeal was so forcibly worded that it dividedthe Indians, and a considerable number gave theirconsent to the removal. Osceola, however, was asdefiant as ever. What particularly enraged him wasthat several of the chiefs who had promised to standby him were won over. He could hardly restrainhimself from attacking them in the presence of theagent, and, turning upon the latter, he charged himto his face with taking an unfair advantage of hispeople. By this time General Thompson was alsoangry, and he told Osceola that he was a treacher-ous dog who was misleading his people, and wastheir worst enemy instead of being the friend hepretended. The war-chief did not restrain his ownopinion of the agent, who, losing all patience,ordered the arrest of Osceola. He was put in

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