Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1824-06-18

agreement and cesson Of the year 1902. As
Stunning, as IT does, principles which cop,rovert
asserting facts which cannot permit myself
to admit; 1t becomes my duty, in the recess of
the Legislature Of Georgia, TO enter my protest,
in be half of the people this State against them
IN the sarno manner as believe they would
themselves do, if they had an opportunity of
speaking by their Immediate representatives.
The avowal OF these principles the assertion of
these facts, involve the destruction of the COM
pact between Georgia and the u. S. make il null
and Woodland leave no alternative to Georgia
but acquiescence or resistance. If nuIlifed by
the act ofone party, the :ther party is absolyed.
and both are tree to declare the resumption Of
taeir original rights. VIII this cancel,nent
make for Georgia or for the United Statess
Give us back our iands--we give you back your
money-and, without making war upon the
States of Alabama and Mississippi, we will run
the risk of concluding with them the best bargain
we can. Ut would be a better bargain for GeOr.
gia than that, the execution of which, we urge,
: upon the general government. But, before
tins, we will have to ask little money of YOU.
Refund to Georgia the FIVE millions winch YOU
gratultously presented to certain persons the
| price OF the pacifcation Of New Enrlantl--and
which you paid from the proceeds of our lands.
And is il come to this, Is it discovered, at last
that Georgia has no claim either upon the Uni
ted states or upon the ln1ians, under the com.
: poSe va ASo-. b1t IL - Il dream, a VISION.
a pliantasma, with which the dcludci people of
Georgia have been plagucing themselves for
twenty years! And pray you, Of what other
construction is the Message 10 Congress suscep-
hble: Are not the indians, then, treated as al
ioiial proprietors--as an independent people,
having plenum ct Observation-Disclosures and seized
per mi ct per tout s. that, therefore, Georgia can
take nothing but at their will and pleasure,
J The United States promised in the compact, to
extngus!l, for Georgia, the Indian claims to the
lands reserved, assoon as it could be done peace
ably and on reasonable terms. The Prcsi-
dent, IN his message, CONSTITUTES this into stipu-
iaton to do, in this respect, whatever it might
please the Indians at any time to do. Of what
value was such n stipulation to Georgia, She
could take nothing by it, which she had not
without 1t. Georgia might, according to the
President intreat the United States to ask the
favor Oh the Indians, to sell peacefully and on
reasonable terms, and if the Indians pleased to
answer, No, never! the just claims of Georgia
were satisfied, now and forever. Was ever such
stipulation h card of before, either in compact
between government AMI govern nent, or in
/ contract between man and man? Georgia has
not required of the United States to invade In
dian rights, to satisfy her claims; she has only
asked of the United States to do for her what
she has done for herself-ac1uire Indian lands
iWhcnsoercr and whercsoever she wanted them;
employ the same means for us, in the fulflment
OF treaty obligation, which you habitualy EN-
pioy for yourselves, without any such obligations
In short, do as you dill in the case of the Flori.
da treaty, and others.
When the President says lie and his prelcces-
sors have invariably done So, may he not have
forgotten the treaty of 1871 when a comman;linr
word to Gen. Jackson woul have procured for
us the Creek lands within orr limits, on at least
as good terms as it did procure other lands for
the United States, bcJoni them
Iappeal to the records Of your Office. sir. as
the vouchers of the fact, that when that was ne
gotiatei, the obligations of the Unitcd States
were no more remembered than if the compact
1902 had never existed. Make an estimate
from the same records of what you, since 1902,
have acquired from the Indians for yourselves,
and compare it with what, under the pledges O..
the agreement, you have acquired for Georgia.
The difference will be about as 100 to an unit;
and yet, ii IS asserted, that the United States
have sought every opportunity TO filfl the stipu-
iations OF the compact. And may ask the ia
vor of you, sir, to put POUR finger ou that part-
cular part of them where it Is shown that pro-
position to extinguish claims in your behalf has
been answered by the potent mono-sylIable, No!
aud that You have been content. The history
of the Plymouth colony, and of William Penn,
might have been illustrated by the patience with
which such an answer had been borne; and the
government of the United States have never
pretended, until now, that 1T would have been
! borne at all. Now We turn over ac;y leaf
the principle of thu oil treaty at Philadelphia.
the qu'd pro quo principle, must govern all trea
ties aid satisfy all consccnccs.-Wouiii it had
been 50 from the beginning, confess to YOU.
sir, do moi like this Kind OF half honesty Ii
the principle of Penns treaty was right, that of
every other which followed was wrong, ana he
"a' has done wrong is il front of conscience
bound to get back to right To undo, prompt
iy ana directly, what you have unrightcously
done, IS dictate, think, Of the Platonic and
, Socratic school--undoubtedly that of a much
higher, the Christian. Begin, therefore, with
; Georgia, if you please, to unsettle all that has
been settled, but let not Georgia be the first and
the last. Say, in spirit of repentance, that
what iiayc taken unlayfully we will restore
that the cdict of Pope Alexander, of pions me-
rnory, shall pass for nothing; the proclanations
and charters of divers Kings Of England, for no.
thing; priority of occupation, priority ofciviliza-
ton, priority of Christianity, all nothing Span
ISL precedent, which, by the law of force, took
every thing, and gave in return stripes and
blows, ofcourse for nothing; and beseeching the
forgiveness of sins, return to the principles and
practices of William Penn. But then. IS not
atonenent still due to the aboriginal How fif
you take the rule of the message for our ruidel
can you repair the wrongs, of all kinds, done
him since the landing on the rock at Plymouth,
Your whole substance would not compensate
them BY one half. Bet, sir, not even the Puri-
tans and the QuaiScrs will consent to give VI
now; and, If things are to remain as VIC find them
why is Georgia to be selected for a propitiatory
oferIDg' 1t is fact unqucstionable, that for
ID or 20 years past, wei! knowing your obliga-
tons to Georgia under the cornpact Won have