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Indian Territory Agent Dew Moore Wisdom Letter

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Indian Territory Agent Dew Moore Wisdom Letter
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Letter in relation to Corruption Court Cases, the upcoming sale of Oklahoma Territory, the genetic shift within the territory, Government Incompetence, and the foundation of a Civil Court. United States Indian Service Union Agency Muscogee I.T. January 28th 1888 Dear Judge, I have only time to write you briefly, I have been sick for several days had a cough a case of maniacal fever but I am up on my feet again. During the late cold spell I got a severe fall and almost broke my right wrist, and my hand is still cramped and swollen. I think Porterfield ought to comprise that Rumor case against me, and let me off as light as possible for several years I have worked for other people, ant it seems impossible for me to get ahead. I have now been out of ? Clerks Office 6 years, and all suits against my securities are barred. This helps me some and I now know what I have to meet in order to save others, and protect them from loss on my account. This territory is undergoing a change rapidly, and it now seems as if a Federal Court were to be established at some convenient point in the Territory with Civil & Criminal Jurisdiction, and if such should be the case, I have got a dead strong a good law practices. The Creeks now seem willing to sell Oklahoma to the Government absolutely, and if they do, a new state will be formed west of here. Of course the Country is overrated in point of fertility of soil, nevertheless it is a genial climate, the considerable good land, and will sustain a large population. The Creeks are very much in debt, and the sale of Oklahoma may be considered a forced one in a certain sense, but the Creeks can not escape the inevitable, in 10 years from the time without intervention on the part of any power, the "Nigger" will take the Creek nation, the Creeks are decreasing all the time, and the "Nigs" are breeding like rabbits, and by nature less inclined to pulmonary diseases which sweep off thousands of Indians. What this country most needs is Capital, which has been refilled by back of Civil law, or any mode by which contracts may be enforced, or debts collected. All goods sold, or money loaned to an Indian is upon honor alone, and this fact makes trade conservative and slow and a "boom" is hardly to be expected when a court with civil jurisdiction is established, a remedy will be found to remove the present stagnation in commercial circles. The Court may be located at Muscogee, and it may be located at Fort Gibson, 8 miles from here, where there already suitable public buildings erected originally for Military Quarters, and where Col Coppinger, a son-in-law of Jas. G. Blaine is now in command of companies of infantry. I have seen his wife, she is very much like James G. and rather darkling in appearance but said to be crude mentally. Several new Railroads are projected into the Territory, and every part of it ? soon to be visited by the "Iron Horse". There is now practically no opposition to Railroads here, not as much as would be encountered in Decatur Co Tenn. I am going to Fort Smith tomorrow to see wife and children, and will return in a few days and resume my old round of Clerical duties. Give my love to Hu. C. Anderson and other friends, and write me when you can. I sat down only to say a word and find myself running ? over ?. I suppose ? will run for Governor, all ok, but I am for ? Isham G. for Senator anyhow. Your friend as ever, Dew M. Wisdom PS I suppose Bob Haynes wants an office, well I will come all the way to ? to see he dont get it.