Ran across this and thought I'd share. The people of western Arkansas clearly disliked Principal Chief John Ross.

Semi-weekly Shreveport news., September 16, 1862

From the Cherokee Nation. -- The following is from the Fort Smith Bulletin:

The citizens of the Cherokee Nation have expressed the right of all freemen -- they have reorganized their government which John Ross would have "sold to the Dutch". We now know who our friends are -- all honor to Stand Watie and his associates -- the people of the South will sustain and uphold him.

The people of the Cherokee Nation have elected for principle chief [sic], Stand Watie; assistant principle chief, Samuel Taylor; treasurer, Stephen Foreman; delegate to Congress, E.C. Boudinot.

Boudinot, Watie's nephew, was secretary of the Arkansas Secession Convention, was in an Arkansas Cavalry company from Fayetteville AR at Wilson's Creek, was temporarily a major in Watie's 1st Cherokee Mtd Vols, and was on Hindman's staff at Prairie Grove before becoming the Cherokee delegate to the Confederate Congress.