Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-07-27
DOMESTIC.
From the National nteWgencer:
THE CHEROKEE TREATY.

The animadvcrsons against the late
convention with the Cherokees, which have
recently appeared in ONE of the public
papers OF tennessee, are of the most yio-
lent character. 1t is broadly asserted, in
those papers, that the government has ce-
ded large portion of the lands obtained
from the Greeks in 1914, 20 the Cherokees.
ihe'trequent repetitions of these assertions
have induced us TO examine the subject, as
tar as we have been able TO obtain the ma
terials necessary to sach an investigation.
From these 1t appears, that the northern
and western boundaries of the cession are
left underlined in the treaty with the Greeks
in 1914. To ascertain the extent of the
cesslon in those directions, it becomes ne
cessary to establish the extent of the Greek
title on the north and on the west.
The first affects the interests of the
Cherokees and Chickasaws, according to
the claims which have been urged ~ them
respectively. The second affects the in
terests of the Chickasaws and Choctaws.
upon the same principles. Ii is commended
by some of the papers, that the. Creek ,irle
extended to the Tennessee river to point
where the creek path crosses that stream.
near the angle Of Madison county, upon
that river; and that it extends Westward
ly along the Tennessee 10 the mouth Of
Caney creek, and from the head of that
creek to the Cotton Gin Post on the Tom
bigby river, which is represented to be
about sixty miles south of the bend of the
Tennessee. 1t is believed that the lines
run by General Coffee, correspond with
this delineation. Others contend that the
Creek territory intersected the Tennessee
river at Nickajack, near hundred miles
higher up, being that much to the eastward
OF the point before described. Tn corrobo-
ration OF the claim thus made, it is assert
cd that the Cherokees never owned any
land to the south of Tennessee.
1t is proper to observe, that the treaties
OF the United States, or of the state of
Georgia, with the Greek nation. furnish no
evidence OF the boundaries of that tribe,
except on the Georgia side. By the trea
ties of l772, concluded with the Cherokees
and with the Creeks, by the provincial 90
vernment OF Georgia, at which both tribes
were present, it appears that the corner
between those tribes had been previonslv
fixed at certain point on Little river. bv
those treaties, and run from thence along
the ridge dividing the waters falling into
Little river on the east, and Broad river on
the west, to place then marked by the
provincial commissioners, and called the
Cherokee corner, which is within about
eight miles of Athens. the scite of the Uni
versIty OF Georgia. To the year 1883, trea~
ties were again entered into with those
tribes, on the part of Georgia, by which
the Cherokee line was extended to the
high shoals OF the Appalachee-the Chez
rokees cedlng large district of country
on the west, and the Greeks still larger
on the east of that line. Thus far there
is no obscurity in the case. The Chero~
KEGS hold the lands Immediately SOUTH
westwardly of the high shoals of the Ap-
paiachee, which is about degree south of
the southern bend of the Tennessee. How
tar south OF the high shoals of the Appala-
chez the Cherokees hold, is unknown to US.
by treaty held with the Cherokees in
the year 1795, by Generals M'Intosh and
Pickens, and Colonel Hawkins, on the part
OF the United States, the Cherokee lands
were admitted to extend westwardiy to the
mouth OF Duck river.-Since that period,
they have c-ded 70 the United States all
their claim to the lands lying in the bend
OF i ennessse, west of the eastern boundary
OF Madison county, with the exception of
two reservations IN favor Of persons settled
upon them and the United States engaged
to procure from the Cbickasaws the reiip-
quishment of their claim to these reserva-
tons. In the year 1906, the United States,
by treaty, engaged to use their influence
with the Chickasaws to establish, az the
boundary between them and the Chero~
KEGS. creek emptying into the Tennessee
river on the south, near the lower end Of
the Muscle shoals, called Caney Creek,
and from the head ofthat creek 20 the Fiat
rock on Bear oreek.-Thus far the claims
OF the Cherokees can be traced b[treaties.
The recognition last menlioncX does not
decide upon the validity - .;, claim
even asitres2 (cis tie Caick ,saws but ,