“Captain Olmsted again alludes to this subject in his annual report for 1870, (Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1870, p. 201.) He there states that the unsettled condition of the freedmen, and their uncertainty as to the final action of the Government, render some of them unsatisfied; but those of them with energy to labor for themselves and their families live as well as the Indians, and are better able to take care of themselves than the majority of their race in the Southern States. He declares the rumors and reports regarding their ill- treatment by the Indians as almost entirely without foundation, but considers it as becoming every day more and more evident that it will be incompatible with their interests to be received as citizens of the nations or to live under Indian laws. As the Chickasaws had refused them the rights of citizenship, and the Choctaws had taken no action whatever in tine matter, he recommends that in case the latter should fail to provide for the necessities of the case, the Government should remove them, or make other provision for them as soon as possible, as the Indians are evidently determined to await action by the United States authorities.”