[42] The American Board itself was inclined to be non-committal and temporizing [Garrison, op. cit., vol. iii, 30]. The _Missionary Herald_, so valuable an historical source as it proved itself to be for Indian removals, is strangely silent on the great subject of negro slavery among the Indians. Its references to it are only very occasional and never more than incidental. [43] Kingsbury was superintendent of the Chuahla Female Seminary. [44] Worcester died, April, 1859 [_Missionary Herald_, 1859, p. 187; 1860, p. 12]. [45] _Missionary Herald_, 1859, pp. 335-336; 1860, p. 12; The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, _Report_, 1856, p. 195. [46] Report of C. C. Copeland, 1860. [47] Cooper was also Chickasaw agent. On the fifth of October, 1854, some of the principal men of the Chickasaw Nation, Cyrus Harris, James Gamble, Sampson Folsom, Jackson Frazier, and D. Colbert, petitioned President Pierce for the removal of Agent Andrew J. Smith on charges of official irregularity and gross immorality. A year later, Superintendent Dean reiterated the charges. Smith's commission was revoked, November 9, 1855; and, in March, 1856, Cooper was assigned the Chickasaws as an additional charge. Henceforth, the two tribes had an agent in common. [48] This note itself bore no date but there is documentary proof that it was received at Fort Smith, November 27, 1854. It is to be found in the Indian Office among the _Fort Smith Papers_. [49] The allusion is, of course, to the "higher law" doctrine expressed in Seward's Senate Speech of March 11, 1850. [50] Commissioner of Indian Affairs, _Report_, 1859, pp. 190-191. The letter of Dr. Treat referred to by Agent Cooper is herewith given. It is accompanied by the letter that covered it and that letter, as it is found among the _Fort Smith Papers_ in the United States Indian Office, bears a record to the effect that the copy of it was transmitted by the southern superintendent to Washington, November 28, 1855. FORT TOWSON Nov. 16, 1855 SIR: I have the pleasure to forward a copy of letter, addressed to the Rev{d} S. B. Treat, Corresponding Secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, by C. Kingsbury and others--Missionaries among the Choctaws--and request the same may be transmitted to the Hon Comr of Indian Affairs for the information of the Government of the United States. The letter as you will perceive refers to an exciting and highly important subject--in which the States adjoining the Indian Territory are deeply & directly interested, as well as the Choctaw People. I cannot refrain from the expression of my gratification at the position assured in this letter by the old and valued Missionaries among the Choctaws. The copy was handed to me by Rev{d} Cyrus Kingsbury, one of the signers to the original letter. Respectfully DOUGLAS H. COOPER, U. S. Agent for Choctaws