Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1825-10-04
HENRY OF '76.
VIEWS IN GEORGIA.
Estract of letter from Citizen of Ge

.icEfracf OF q letter from a CITIZEN OF Georgia,
to ms friend Ia Virginia.
sc Is it time that the people of Georgia should
clamor for and insist on the fulfilment OF the en-
ssgement entered into the part of the United
States, in the articles of cession of 1902! They
will DE found on the first volume oil the new ed-
tfon of the laws of the United States. Read
them. Let me then invite your attention to the
situation OF the Indians within the United States al
the period of their date. A large part of Ohio, al
most all of Indiana and Illinois, portion of Ken
lucky, one half of Tennessee, the whole of which
now comprises Alabama, and nearly all of Mssis-
sippi occupied by Indians. Georgia ceded Alab.
and Mississippi received as price s. ,250,O00
only, with an engagement TO ex,inguish the Indian
title to all the lands reserved herself so soon as
the same could be obtained pesceably and on rea-
sonable terms What has followed? quarter
of a century has elapsed No such contract exists
with any other state. The Indians have been re-
moved entirely from Ohio; mostly from Indiana
and Illinois, entirely from Kentucky, n and S.
Carolina entirely from Tennessee. Entirely from
Missouri and almost from ArlSansaw. From one
half of Mississippi and from 2-3ds of Alabama
BY the removal of the Cherokees from Tennessee
and of the Creeks and Cherokees from Alabama,
they have been urged, in greater numbers, upon
the reserved limits of Georgia, and what is worse,
the United States, by the Treaty of Fort jackson,
(Which hope you will consult, il is in the same
vol) guaranty TO the Indians that very country
which by her contract with Georgia, she had enga-
ged to remove them from! From the period of
that treaty to the present time, Georgia, as she
ought to have been, has been urgent for the fulfil
ment of that engagement. Surely when the u
nted States removed the Cherokees from Tennes-
see, it would have been easy to let them remain
there, and remove them from the Territory of
Georgia. When she purchased Madison county
Alabama, from the same nation, it would have
been just as easy to have caused them to have re-
lineulshed lands in Georgia, when afterwards at
the treaty of Fort Jackson, of the immense tract of
land then acquired in Alabama, part could have
been suffered to remain in the possession of the In
dians, and their removal procured from Georgia!
But this is not all. When an arrangement was
made by Gen Jackson with the Cherokees for their
removal beyond the Mississippi, the Federal Co.
yernment, for ifle, released them from that en-
gagement. 1t is submitted to your honest impartial
consideration, to say, whether under these crcum-
stances, Georgia has not right to be urgent? But
let us pursue the enquiry. All at once most Phi
lantmopic spirit has sprung up at the north t had
not then the ascendancy'') which has Infused it,
self into the Federal rulers that is much better to
have copper coloured christians than white ones
and copper coloured citizens than white ones, &C.
Accordingly, missionaries and schoolmasters, and
artizans have been sent at public expense, among
the Indians, who have established their head quar-
tiers among those within the limits of Georgia
land in the country, protection, and salaries are en-
Joyed by them. That these creatures should wish
the removal of the Indians which would break their
comfortable establishments, is preposterous. Ac-
cordngly they have set themselves against all ef-
forts TO remove them. They ,ohine about their
ignorance, the necessity of their their
Improvement in civilization, the injustice that has
been done then, the necessity of making atonemenf
and God knows What beside, until really believe
ms Ia a.
IN the habit of hunting Indians as deer. One
thing is evident; from the time that these mssioners
went about among the Indians their tone has been
altered, and their obstinacy increased in regard to
relinqushng their lands here and removing beyond
the Mississippi. Yet these industrious workers
are all OF them agents and paid by the money of
the Federal Government Look at these things and
tell me If they do not convince YOU that the u. S.
instead OF pursuing policy which would increase
the facilities for fulfilling her engagements with
Georgia, has pursued exactly opposite course.
She first pens up the Indians within the limits Of
Georgia, and then sends among them agents, whose
interest she makes il, 10 persuade them to stay
there.
"You seem TO be in great doubt whether the late
treaty was fairly procured, and have not been un-
spaiing OF your censures upon our poor Governor
And the evidence upon which you do this is deriy-
ed from the correspondence of Crowell, Andrews
and Gaines Again, say, bear US for our Cause
Crowell ought never to have been,sppointed to the
Office he now fills He never had any qualihca-
tons for it, He was originally from ". Carolina,
from whence he came 10 Georgia In that state he
was distinguished as great cock fighter and ella
morous psrtizsn Of Gen. Clark. From Georgia he
went TO Alabama, became broken merchant. and
then by some strange freak of fortune, was elected
delegate from that territory to Congress While
there, Gen. Mitchell was removed from the Creek
Agency, and Crowell by his intrigues, by bis hs-