General Jessup now saw that both Seminole Indians and negroes had clear conceptions of justice and honor. That his efforts to deliver over negroes to slavery had defeated the entire object of the articles of capitulation of the eighteenth of March. The Indians had fled. The negroes, except those who were imprisoned, had fled. The twenty-six vessels, collected at Tampa Bay to transport them to New Orleans, were yet idle; and, to use his own words, "_all was lost!_" Abraham, acting for his brethren while West, in 1833, had caused the article to be inserted in the supplemental treaty, giving the Seminoles a separate country for their settlement. In forming the articles of capitulation with general Jessup, he again exhibited his capacity for negotiation; obtaining the insertion of an article which, if carried out, would have proved a triumphant vindication of their cause. But from this second manifestation of his powers for negotiation, the Government of the United States found it necessary to recede, in order to maintain its designs of enslaving the Exiles. CHAPTER XII. THE RENEWAL AND PROSECUTION OF THE WAR. Objects of the first and second Seminole War--Action of General Jessup and the Executive in regard to the Capitulation--His alleged arrangement--Resumes hostilities with intent to carry out original design of General Jackson--Establishes a series of forays for the capture of Negroes--Choctaws and Delawares employed--Cherokees refuse--Send a Delegation to make peace--Ross, the Cherokee Chief, addresses a Letter to Wild Cat, Osceola, and others--Difficulty with Creek Warriors--General Order--General Jessup's policy--Creek Warriors discharged--Capture of King Phillip--His message to Wild Cat--Influence of Cherokees--Wild Cat bears plume, etc., from Osceola to General Jessup, proposing to negotiate--Jessup sends back answer--Wild Cat, Osceola and Exiles come in to Fort Peyton--Are betrayed--Seized as prisoners--Imprisoned at San Augustine--Wild Cat escapes--Thrilling Narrative--Cherokee Delegation induce Micanopy, Cloud and others to visit General Jessup--They too are seized, and one hundred Exiles captured--Extraordinary conduct of General Jessup--Cherokees leave in disgust. By the articles of capitulation, entered into on the sixth of March (1837), the second Seminole War had been terminated. General Jessup so regarded it, and so declared it. The Exiles and Indians so regarded it, and some eight hundred came in under it and registered their names for emigration, in good faith. The people of Florida regarded it in that light, and remonstrated against it. They declared it a treaty of peace; but complained of its terms, for the reason that it gave up the slaves whom they claimed to own.