To this they must not and shall not sacrifice the last remnant of their country.

You have told us what we may do and be safe.
Yours is a good talk, and my nation ought to listen to it.

They _shall_ listen to it."[1] [Footnote 1: For these speeches of Weatherford's and for other historical details I am indebted to a valuable and interesting book, "Romantic Passages in South Western History," by A.B.Mull, Mobile, S.
H.Goetzsl & Co.

publishers, which is now, unfortunately out of print.
The speeches are well authenticated I believe.] Jackson was too generous and too brave a man to remain unmoved under such a speech from a man who thus placed his own life in jeopardy for the sake of his people.

He bade the chieftain return home, and promised peace to his people, a promise faithfully kept to this day.