American watchman and Delaware advertiser., 1825-09-16
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to death Mcintosh, and Etome Tustunnuggee ior
violating the law made at Broken Arrow. This
execution was magnhed by Gov. Troup into am
act OF hostility to the United Statesq and The poy-
ernment was requested to order lis troops TO chas-
tIse the hostile Indians, for merely enforcing ala
article OF internal police The governmen, very
properly declines to interfere With the intestine dis
putes OF the Indians except to protect the friendly
Greeks from indiscriminae massacre, aud Governor
Iroup called up the States south of the Potomac 10
stand to their arms.
HIS Incorporate language has been universally
condemned, that It Is scarcely necessary make it
The subject of remark excepting so far as it shows
IN connexion with the OF the state lepsla-
ture, the principles upon which the state govern
nent has based its claims. The legislature, during
the extra session, authorized survey or the land de
scrbed in the treaty, and enacted that they should
be divided among certain inhabitants OF Georgia by
means OF a land lottery BY these steps the have
sanctioned the doctrine set up by the Governor thae
" upon the ratification Of The treaty, the title and
jurisdiction became absolute in Georgia." and that
The United States have no further concern il,
the matter than to furnish troops aud fgpd, To car.
ry the treaty into effect.
The title OF the Indians is regarded as nothing
their claims upon our justice and sympathy nothing
he assumed obligations of the United States are l.,
be desplstd because made with savages; and public
opinion, and the great principles of moral Justice
and humanity, are to be set at noue hit by the Amer
lcan Congress, as they were by the Valve, des and
Sepulvedas Of the 10Th century.
"Depend upon it,'' says Gov Tronp, in his let
ter Of May s, 1925, to Joseph MarshaI amy re.
venge will have. II will be such as We have rea.
son to believe the Great Spirit would Il tquire Soclt
as our Christ would moi think too much.;' ! IJor.
rible perverson Of language! The nanrs of the
God OF Mercy, and of the teacher OF pure morality
introduced to sanction this unhallowed all for The
determination Of the helpless, unofFendpg natives
OF the forest We can not adequately express our
abhorrence ot sentiments like these.
Again In his letter to General Ware. he saysu
sincerely trust, that if these inuriated monsters
shall have the teimery to SIT 1o0t within our SET
tied limits you may have the opportunity to give
them the bayonet freely, the instrument which they
most dread, and which is most appropriate 10 the
occasion''s
Is this the spirit with which these aboririnals
should DC treated? 4? After We have encouraged them
to relinquish their ancient habits, for the customs
and arts of civilized life, seek to despo them Of
their lands by fraudulent treaty, aud 10 dtive them
again into the forest, with habits untitled to sustain
the hardships OF The hunting life, and with long
ing wish for The civilization which we have encour.
aged them to hope, and debarred them from obtain
ing, In such situation shall we prohibit them
from complaining, or threaten them with the bayo-
net, because they visit justice upon those violaors
OF their laws who have been the authors Of tler
distress We stand in delicate relation to those
Indians. We inhabit the land OF their ancestors
We powerful people. beyond the reach Of
their arms or of the arms of any vino may under
take TO ayenge thern.
They are weak, and few in number, indebted 10
our sense OF justice for protection upon the soil
which they once owned in absolute right. They
have attempted to cvlllze the rising generation, and
have suffered the white men to encompass them in
their settlements. in the hope that they might be
preserved under the protecting arm af this great
republic, until in The Iullness of time, they should
be received into the bosom Of the American family
and be identified with US, as one people. We still
have it'll our power to drive them beyond the pre-
cncts OF civilization, where, half savage and half
civilized, they will soon fall victims 10 The difficult
Ties OF their sitnation; or, IN reslstlngi they may
bring upon themselves universal destruction They
may perish, they have resolved to do, upon tb.
smoking, bood-slaked ruins of their huts, and
leave not soul to tell the tale Their race may
disappear from the earth and no historian. nor ota-
tor, OF Indian extraction, to narrate their wrongs
or to call down vengeance upon those who have pos
sessed themselves of their fair ifherIance. But
will public opinion be annhilated2 : Can We forget
our own injustice? Will not the page Of our his,
tory be indeibly stamped with the exrpa,on Of
the abotgnals: Our Descendants will read, thar
in the nineteenth century, the American Congress
ratified fraudulent treaty, by which an Indian ma.
lioh was oePiseu vi ta tesiitoiy, dbhhSt IT'S VIII,
and without its copsent--that this treaty was made
with small party Of those ignorant creatures who
we're caIoled and bribed to be The instruments Of
their countrymen--that the Senate was
nduced by deception, ra,iiy it and that still the
rational government, in conjunction with the state
proceeded to execute it at the point OF
he bayonet, by the determination OF the Indians.
Shall this last sentence close the record OF this
lisgraceluI transaction Shall our desc cendants see
be bones Of these oborginas whitening the western
,lains CT Georgia, as enduring testimony Of ourcru