The Muscogee Nation

In this solemn and important council, rising up before the wisdom and experience of so many venerable Sachems, and having the eyes of so many heroic chieftains upon me, I feel myself struck with that awful dissidence, which I believe would be felt by any one of my years, who had not relinquished all the modesty of his nature.

At a council of the chiefs, head men, and warriors of the Creek nation, convened by authority, the talk of the president was communicated by the agent. After a profound silence of many minutes duration, Speckled Snake, a warrior whose head was whitened with the frosts of more than a hundred winters!  And who supported himself on the shoulders of two young men, it is supposed, arose, and spoke as follows:

Brothers! We have heard the talk of our great father, it is very kind, he says he loves his red children.