which, right or wrong, should not have been taken without a reference to you. For he was appointed, I believe, on your recommendation; and whether or no, no one knows the man so well as yourself. From the outset, he has been our great hope at Waitara. He has always sided with us, without regard to the enemies he made for himself by so doing; and in the midst of his domestic troubles, --- because of looking to the Government, which confessedly does nothing in native disputes, unless both sides