FLORIDA.


mer Indian settlement of Tallahassee, and immigration be-
gan to move in.
 The settling of the country would have proceeded much
more rapidly but for the difficulties presented by the Ind-
ians, who were in possession of the best lands, and extremely
jealous of their rights. It was the desire of the whites that
the Indians should be removed, like the Creeks, to some


reservation west of the Mississippi,
end were begun in 1828. Several
Osceola, were bitterly opposed to
majority were willing at least to c
tion was appointed to visit and re


reservation.


an
of
suce
)nsi
por


Owing to procrastination


d negotiations to this
the chiefs, including
h a change; but the
der it, and a delega-
t upon the proposed
n and delays, this del-


egation did not
1832, and upon
was favorable.
the Indians had
fused to accept 1
The United Stat
bound under the
mendation, dete


set out upon their journey until September,
Their return in March, 1833, their report
But in the mean time the opposition among
become more violent, and many of them re-
the recommendation of the delegated chiefs.
es authorities, holding that the Indians were
terms of the treaty to accept this recom-
rmined to force them to do so: and there-


upon began the longest, bloodiest, and costliest war that was
ever waged between whites and Indians in America.
 This war-known in history as the Seminole War-was
too complex in its operations and too varied in its vicissi-


tudes to be dealt with in detail here. An admirable
and minute account of it will be found in the closing
ters of Fairbanks's History of Florida," and with les
than is there devoted to it justice can not be done
subject. Beginning with the appalling massacre of
Dade's command on the 28th of December, 1835, t
raged unceasingly until August, 1842. The Indians
with amazing pertinacity and courage, and the result
campaigns of 1835 and 1836 was decidedly in their
After that they gradually lost ground ; but not until (


y clear
chap-
s space
to the
Major
he war
fought
of the
favor.
General