[93] General Jessup at all times practiced upon this principle. When "Louis," the guide who planned the defeat and massacre of Major Dade, became a prisoner and Wild Cat claimed to have captured him, General Jessup disregarded the claim of Pacheco, the owner, and sent the negro West; and, in other instances, he kept those known to have been slaves as guides, and, at a proper time, sent them to the Western Country, as freemen. He even bribed negroes to act as guides to his army by promising them liberty, and carried out such arrangement. [94] Vide this Memorial at length, Ex. Doc. 225, 3d Sess. XXVth Congress. [95] All these communications may be found at length in the Fifth Vol. Ex. Doc., 3d Session XXVth Congress. But these arrangements made with the chiefs are supposed to have rested entirely in parole. No copy of any such agreement has been found by the Author, who is fully of opinion that it does not exist in any authentic form. [96] Vide Ex. Doc. 225, 3d Sess. XXVth Congress. [97] These Letters may be found in Ex. Doc. 225, 3d Sess. XXVth Congress. [98] This Correspondence may be found in the 8th vol. Ex. Doc., 2d Sess. XXVth Cong., No. 285. [99] Of this declaration he had subsequent cause to repent, and most eloquently he expressed his mortification, in a letter to the Secretary of War. Vide his Letter or Jan. 2, 1839, in the Document last quoted. [100] These facts may all be found officially recorded in Ex. Doc. 78, 2d Sess. XXVth Congress, and Ex. Doc. 225, 3d Sess. XXVth Congress. [101] The Interrogatories were embraced in a paper, of which the following is a copy: "MEMORANDA OF SPECIFIC QUESTIONS TO BE ADDRESSED TO OSCEOLA. "Ascertain the object of the Indians in coming in at this time. Also their expectations. _Are they prepared to deliver up the negroes taken from the citizens, at once?_ Why have they not surrendered them already, as promised by Co-Hadjo at Fort King? Have the chiefs of the nation held a Council in relation to the talk at Fort King? What chiefs attended that Council, and what was their determination? Have the chiefs sent a messenger with the decision of the Council? Have the principal chiefs Micanopy, Jumper, Cloud and Alligator sent a messenger? and if so, what is their message? Why have not those chiefs come themselves? "(Signed) THOS. S. JESSUP, _Major General Commanding_. "SAN AUGUSTINE, _August 21st, 1837_." [102] From the first and second interrogatories, the reader will see that General Jessup was fully conscious, that the attempt to deliver over those negroes to slavery who were claimed by the citizens of Florida, had been the sole cause for renewing the war. He dictated the first and most important interrogatory propounded to Osceola--"_Are you prepared at once to deliver up the negroes taken from the citizens?_"