January 24, 1829- The Seminole leaders have called for a meeting with Agent Humphreys to demand that the protection promised by the government be delivered.
Tuckasee Mothla spoke as follows:
Our great Father at Washington is our friend—he is our brother. I wish to send a few words to him from my people. At Washington I shook hands with him, and eat and drank with him. What he there told me I have not crooked from, and I expect that he will be straight-forward with me. I took the trouble to perform a long and tedious journey to see him, and what he told me I do not forget, nor have I departed from it. After having the big
talk with him, I thought that all our troubles were at an end; but it seems as if the white people would never let us rest, and therefore have we come to this council house to have our words written down, that our big father may see them. When I left Washington, the vessel I was in sprung a leak, and we were three days up to our middle in water. We are all Seminoles here together. We want no long talk; we wish to have it short and good. We are Indians, and the whites think we have no sense; but what our minds are, we wish to have our big father know