CHAPTER XVIII.

Pre-emptive right to the Indian reservations, sold to the Ogden Company-- Council to obtain an extinguishment of the Indian title--Red Jacket's reply to Mr. Ogden's speech--Indians refuse to sell--Another council called--Account given by Hon. Albert Tracy--Various utterances of the orator on that occasion--Indians appeal to the governments of the United States and New York--Noble response of Governor De Witt Clinton of New York--Final success of the Ogden Company.