In the depths of the Everglades last fortnight were secret rejoicings. In many a primitive Indian village, protected from the inquisitive white man by evil-smelling swamps, warriors and squaws grunted their satisfaction at the news that, after a 100 years of botheration, the U. S. was at last to let them alone in their dank solitude.
In 1832 the U. S. made a treaty with the Seminole Indians* whereby they ceded their Florida lands to the U. S., promised to move to what is now Arkansas. They failed to move. The Seminole War (1835-42),...
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