With what particular chiefs this arrangement was made, or what were the terms of the arrangement, the Author has not learned; yet, as we shall see hereafter, he represented it to have been made at "Fort King" with _Co-Hadjo_, an unimportant chief, and then attempted to hold the Seminole Nation responsible for Co-Hadjo's promise. But under these circumstances, the reader will ask what consideration was paid Co-Hadjo to bribe him to enter into such a contract? That chief and General Jessup and General Cass, Secretary of War, must have known he possessed no power to bind the Seminole Nation, nor to surrender those persons to slavery. It will long remain a subject of inquiry. Why did the War Department sanction this violation of the solemn articles of capitulation, which these officers termed a _treaty_, and which certainly possessed all the solemnity and binding force of a treaty? There is also an inexplicable obscurity attending this subject. General Jessup wrote Colonel Harney, on the eighth of April, that he had _that day_ made the arrangement, etc.; while the Secretary of War states that he had learned of this arrangement by General Jessup's _two_ letters, dated the first and fifteenth of April. One of these letters appears to bear date seven days before, and the other seven days after, the day on which he declares the arrangement was made. The withholding of such fact seven days from the War Department would be as incompatible with military duty as the giving it seven days before its existence, is irreconcilable with the common perceptions of mankind. In several instances, General Jessup had foretold that a renewal of the war would follow any attempt to deliver up negroes to the claimants in Florida, and it would appear that he must have expected that result; but he communicated to the commandants of nearly all the different posts, that he had made arrangements _with the chiefs_ for returning slaves _captured during the war_. But, up to the twenty-sixth of April, he steadily insisted that no obligation rested upon the Indians to bring in runaway negroes who had fled to them before the war. On the twenty-sixth, he wrote Colonel Brown, of St. Augustine, saying:--"I have made arrangements with the Indians for the delivery of the negroes _captured during the war_. They are to be delivered, if they can be taken without delaying the Indians in their movements, at the posts on the St. John's. The Indians are not bound to surrender runaway negroes. _They must, and shall, give up those taken during the war_: at all events, they shall not take them out of the country. Further than that, I shall not interfere." But while relating facts on this subject, we should be unfaithful to the truth of history were we to omit the letter which this officer wrote, on the following day, to Hon. J. L. Smith, a citizen of Florida. This letter, bearing date at Tampa Bay on the twenty-seventh of April, 1837, says: