The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-09-16 00:00:00

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TREATY BETIVEEN THE UNITED STATES
I, 1815.
COM_ of AMERICA 4ND TH E CREEK RATION.
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the following Document, rather a singular one of
•I its kind, has not hitherto appeared in this country ; :4
;120 6 2 hut an official copy of it having fallen into our bands,
lured. we lay it before our readers:—
nesulA.
66 JAMES MADISON; President of the United,Statee
Resolved,
,ed for the of America :
I ARMY '6 To all and singular to whom these prtsents shall
/N, in the come greeting.
ties of the cc Whereas certain articles of agreement and capie .
tulation were made and concluded on the ninth day
r, ernnled of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand
libl'lmP" ' eight hundred and fourteen, between Major-General
11,e (ler-
' Potriebes, Andrew Jackson, in the name of the President of
IRITISH the United States of America, for .and io behalf of
• Duke of
iy, „d„ the said United States, and the chiefs, deputies, and '
; warriors of the Creek Nation ; and whereas the
a I President having seen and considered the same. sod,
i 1 16' 9d• 1 by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of
i the United States, duly ratified and confirmed the • •
I said articles of agreement and capitulation, Which • .
S. are in the words following, to wit :
e; " Whereas an unprovoked, inhuman, and sane 4". 1 '
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guinary war, waged by the hostile Creeks against the • e •
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xlO 0 0 United States, hath been repelled, prosecuted, and
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5 5 e determined, successfully on the part of the said
h, States, in conformity with principles of uatittteni juss
5 0 0 5 0 0 tice and honourable warfare—and whereas consi.
5 5 0 . iteration is due to the rectitude of procoerlit.g, dic- •
2 2 0 tated by instructions relating to the .rreelite'rtishment
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Lg. 908 of pence: be it remembered, that, prior to the cone
..,. 5 0 0 quest of that part .f the Creek Nation hostile to the
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5 0 0 United States, numberless aggressions had been com- •
e 2 2 0 mitred against the peace, the property, and the lives
d, of citizeus of the United States, and those of the
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• Creek Nation in amity with her, at the mouth of
•e, , Duck River; Fort Mimnis, and elsewhere, contrary
3 0 to national faith, and the regard due to an Article of
u 49 i 0 the Treaty evirictuded at New Yttrk, in the year
1790, between the two nations ; that the United
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States, previously, to the perpetration of such out..
by rages, did, in order to ensure future amity and
nd concord between the Creek Nation and the said
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g. States, in conformity with the stipulations of former •
;y Treaties) fulfil, with punctuality and good faith,
119 11 7 her engagements to the said tee jot, •
en that more
Ise than two-thirds of the whole numeer of chiefs and ,
er 5 3 2 warriors of the Creek Nation, disregarding the
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genuine spirit of existing treaties, suffered themselves -
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3 0 0 to be instigated to violations of their natured honour
Ice and the respect due to a part of their own nation
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in faithful to the United States and the principles of
2 0 0 humanity, by impogors denominating themselves '
m prophets, and by the duplicity and misiePrentatiott
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u- of foreign emissaries, whose Governments treat war,
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4 6 0 open or understood, with the United States. Where.
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; fore, lst.—The United States demand an equivalent
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1 4 13 0 . for all expences incurred in prosecuting the war to .
yI its termination, by a cession of all the territory be-
K. ' longing to the Creek Nation within the territories of
5 0 0 the United States, lying west, south, and south
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-i. „s. /00. : eastwardly of a line to be run and described by per-
,_ sons duly authorised and appointed by the President
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n, . of the United Statese—begioning at a point on the
110 6 eastern bank of the Coosa River, where the south
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: boundary line of the Cherokee Nation • crosses the
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t same : running from thence down the said Coosa
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117 0 River with its eastern bank according to its various r .
p- , . meanders to a point one mile above the mouth of 6'.
53 1 6. Cedar Creek, at Fort \Vi !Hams thence east two
,mites,
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theme south t womi les, thence west to the eastern bank
of the said Coosa River, thence down the eastern bank
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thereof according to its various meanders, to a point
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opposite the upper end of the great falls (called by e
th the natives Wootumka), thence east from a tree
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14 0 0 meridian line to a point due north of the mouth or
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; the Ofneskee, thence south by a like meridian line
" 6 1,2 9' to the mouth of Ofneskee on the south side of the
r- I Tallavocrusa !liver, thence up the same nccorditig to .
he l its various meanders to a point where a direct course
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6 0 0 will cross the same at the distance of ten miles from.
y- 1 the mouth thereof, thence-a direct line to the mouth •
r. 1 of Summochico Creek, which empties into the Cita-
5 7 0 i tahouchie River, on the east aide thereof, below the
r. 1 F:ntaulau Town, thence east from a true meridian
2 2 0 line to a point which shall intersect the line now
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r 6 8 6 dividing the lands claimed by the said Creek Nation
r- !from those claireA and owned by the State of r,
50 0 Georgia : provided, nevertheless, that where any - I
4, ' possession of any chief' or warrior of the Creek
tell 0 0 , Nation, who shall have been friendly to the United
v. "States during the war, and taken an active part .
58 17 10 therein, shall be within the territory ceded by these
„,`: articles to the United States, every such person shall
13 3 0 be intitled toa reservation of land within the said
I, 1 territory of one mile square, to include his improve.
Hi. g 5. 98d, ments as near the centre thereof as may be, which
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if ; shall ensure to the said chief or warrior and his de-
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scendants, so long as he or they shall continue to oc- •
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copy the same, who stra!l be protected by and sub-
;49 14 14 ject to the laws of the United States; but upon the "
of London r voluntary abandonment thereof, by such possessor ..
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ior his-descend:llaq, the tight of occupancy or pose
craters. , session of said lands, shall d volve to the United - •
States, and be identified with the ri. bt of i roperty ....
ceded -hereby. - •
a inspec-
t 2d. The United States shall guarantee to the
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0 wee at Creek Nation the integrity of all their territory east-
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nasally and northwardly of the said line, to be run .• '
tents here,
ides much and described as mentioned in the first oracle.
1 any other " 3d. The United States demand, that the Creek -.• ;
~I." ilin:P‘:r- N t•on nit-union all communication, and cease to
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i.l a fault hold any intercourse with aoy British or Spanner • .. -
post, garrison, or town; and that they shall not . .
admit among them any agent or trader, who shaft-
London. not derive authority to bold t,•lnvot.r,•6l. abr.-44411i .
lam, in intercourse with them, by istertee front this -Pre- •
eident or authorised ;Bent of the United States: -v.
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