[58] Connelley, _Quantrill and the Border Wars_, 147-149, 152. [59] Siebert, _Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom_, 284. [60] This party came to be known, almost exclusively, as the Treaty Party. After the murder of John Ridge, from whom the party took its name, his nephew, Stand Watie, became its leader. Stand Watie figured conspicuously on the southern side in the Civil War. [61] A good general account of these Cherokee factional disputes may be found in Thomas Valentine Parker's _Cherokee Indians_. [62] Kappler, _op. cit._, vol. ii, 561; Polk's _Diary_ (Quaife's edition), vol. ii, 80. [63] George Butler to Dean, January 9, 1857. [64] "... The Cherokee Council is in session, tho they do not seem to be doing much. It will hold about four weeks yet. I will stay till it breaks. I think the Councilmen seem to be split on some questions. It seems as if there are two parties. One is called the land selling party & those opposed to selling the land (that is Neutral lands). They passed a bill last council to sell it. Congress would not have anything to do with it & in fact they got up a protest against selling it & sent it to Washington City & they did not sell the land."--Extract from J. C. Dickinson to Captain Mark T. Tatum, dated Tahlequah, October 16, 1860 [_Fort Smith Papers_]. [65] Kappler, _op. cit._, vol. ii, 388. [66] Rector to Greenwood, June 14, 1860. [67] Tuckabatche Micco and other Creek chiefs wished the southern Comanches to be located somewhere between the Red and Arkansas Rivers. That might or might not have meant a settlement upon the actual Creek reservation. Manypenny promised to look into the matter and find out whether there were any vacant lands in the region designated [Manypenny to Dean, May 25, 1855, Indian Office, _Letter Book_, no. 51, pp. 444-445]. [68] Dean to Manypenny, November 24, 1856, and related documents [General Files, _Chickasaw_, 1854-1858, D304, I400]. [69] For Choctaw political disturbances in 1858, see General Files, _Choctaw_, 1859-1866, I933 and R1004. [70] Some of the Tonkawas most probably went back to their old Texan hunting-grounds upon the breaking out of the war and were found encamped, in 1866, around San Antonio [Cooley to Sells, February 15, 1866, Indian Office, _Letter Book_, no. 79, p. 293]. [71] The Leased District was designed to accommodate any Indians that the United States government might see fit to place there, exclusive of New Mexican Indians, who had caused the Wichitas a great deal of trouble, and those tribes "whose usual ranges at present are north of the Arkansas River, and whose permanent locations are north of the Canadian...." [Kappler, _op. cit._, vol. ii, 708]. [72] The treatment of the Indians by Texas will be made the subject of a later publication. The story is too long a one to be told here. [73] Mix to Rector, March 30, 1859 [Indian Office, _Letter Book_, no. 60, pp. 386-388]. [74] _Annual Report_, 1857.