Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1825-11-25


interests, disregarded by his government and CON
teinned by himself; in short, his single declaration
III the lace OF truth, made by that government the
basis OF the most offensive against this
even to the extreme of threatening us with the
sword, and actually drawing out regular force for
its execution.
The history of the treaty of 1925, and the cha
racter of the events which followed, will be best
learned by the documents and evidence heretofore
published and those laid before you. The
epitome Is, that the treaty was untainted with
fraud "a most other Indian treaties-was made with
an authority long since recognized by the u States
as competent TO make twas acquiesced in at first
by the sreatbody of the nation and would have been
cheeriully submitted TO by the whole tribe as the
hostile Chiefs in Council indicated to Col Lamar
u the Agent had not returned from his mission to
w ashihgton and altered lit was this ominous
return IRON his defeat before the President and SEE
male, IN which Mcintosh foresaw the ruin which an
ihiurated man would bring upon him and his gene
rallon--" We are not in any danger until he comes
nome himself and commences hostility and urges it
upon US, says NcIntosh-sIf ratified (meanins
the ueaty) 1t may produce horrid state of things
among those unfortunate Indians - saws the Agent
what the penetrating sagacity of the one foretold
soon came to pass--Mclntosh was no more and
thus The evil genius of the other, which predicted
the coming OF the whirlwind, which rode i'm il and
directed The s'orm saw in the fell swoop the
triumph Of his Vaccinations and the fulfilment of
MS prophecy. Mcintosh and his Chiefs had civ en-
Their assent to the survey of the country, and this
assent was seized by the Agent to divert the public
odIum from himself, and 10 fasten it on the Chief
magistrate OF Georgia, who had sought and obtain
ed that assent. The naked declaration of the A
gent TO this effect. unsupported by title OF proof
was sufficient to command the absolute credence oil
MS government, and contrary TO all o,posing tes,i-
mohy OF the most conclusive character, TO warrant
IL IN charging the caamitfs of the nation upon the
same magistrate as the author of them ALTO for
oiu the survey and To embody corps of regulars 10
prevent IT. and to continue both it, offensive order,
ana It's offensive armament after anothe, of it's
agants, by false testimony had proven To its "a is
iacuon, that no such assent was ever given and
Haa announced 10 1t moreover what was no the
TACT, but what Oh his authority il implicitly be-
lleved 10 be the fact, that the pacifcation OF the
Indians had been concluded and o. course order
and tranquility permanently restored; nevertheless
the offensive mandate is unrev oked and he parade
oil bayonets maintained. The Indian righ, of oc-
cupahry Is the only one acknowledged by the Eu-
ropean powers from The beginning the only one
acknowledged by all the public instruments through
which Georgia derived her tle-ihe onl, one COR
ceded 10 The Indians by Georgia in all her ire ties
WIN them IRON the first settlement of the country
and the only one recognized by the United States
themselves.
The Spaniards and the French, without respect
ing even this right, have forcibly appropriated TO
themselves entire countries when and here il suit
eu mem he English and Americans have 20 far
respected as 10 make compensation for the reIin
qnishment OF claim, ABANDONMENT of use II is
Iue .ha' WIN regard 10 this right OF use the Uni
'eu States IN their own territory might have given
10 II any latitude which pleased them because The
son ana jurisdiction belonged TO them; but with re-
gard 10 The territory OF Georgia, here the soil and
Juiisuctioh are indlspuiably hers, this right of use
can ohiy De construed TO mean what in all the trea-
10 do Il.
',es u aid mean,'he right oiuse for hunting. Wien.
therefore, tho United Siaes, BY changing The mode
oi life OF the aboriginal upon the soil ne Ceorc;
changed essentially this right, and caused her lands
70 oe separately appropriated for the purpose of til
rage ana gave every encouragement 10 fixed habits
u agriculture, they violated the treaties i'm their let
ter AID spirit, and did wrong TO Georgia. It's M,
eas strange tan true, that of all the various tribes
VI aVoIiSihes dispersed over the vast country with
IN the limits OF the United States two of then,
within the limits of Georgia, have been sneciaIlv
selected as most fit subjects for the O, eration NJ
'hls great scheme OF recamaton ard that the par
tIai success OF TINS scheme, BOUNDED in wrong tn
georgia. and continued la wrong) should be held
up to us now as mirror in which we =, e invi,ed IN
see al once our own dcformy md the moral beauty
VI IT'S au'hofs' ana That thus original and continued
wrong should be set up in bar OF our undoubted
rights.
me state oil Georgia contends that the iurisdic
tioh over the country in question, is absolute in
herseif-She proves IL by all the titles tbroucb
which she derived her claim from the berinnin7,.
ny the chartsrs and proclamations of the mother
country; by the repeated ACCOMPLISHMENTS of the
United states themselves, and by their soiemnv
expressed recognition in the first and second ar,j-
Giles oil the agreement and cession of tyO2-I, was
shewn that II Georgia bad the juIisdction Georgia
had never parted with II; aud thai it she had II moi
she can nev er have 1t in virtue Of any authority OF
any power known to her. Yet Georgia has been
denied the right OF survey OF her own soil within
her own jurisdiction, right as inseparabJe from
that jurisdiction and as innocent right of way
and this notwithstanding the consent to that
as Is verify believed, freely given by every Chief
within the limits OF the territory. who could by any
possibility suffer harm or delrimcnt from i--Nay
more, 1t IS confidently believed that ii the IJnteJ
States government or its agents had not extorted
from one portion OF the Indians objections 10 the
survey, there .ould not have been found sincle
individual who would have thought oil entertain, ing
any; and here it will not escape you that at the
councii OF Broken Arrow, where the Commission
Ol Georgia were present, the military officer of
tic Unted States, under his instructions. ,p,,la
known to the chiefs that his gov eminent bad re.ov
ed MOI 10 permit the survey, that If spirit at
any time' from any cause, had animated the Indian
10 hoslty against Georgia, the savage " ould have
awaited himself oil the survey as pretext 10 fall np
on our people, and with the more feroci,y becats
assured ti7t he would be sustained by the arms of
, the United Ststes
The last pretexl of the President. Tor rssi,,,ooo
tOthe survey, Is the obligation to execute the 9Th
article oilhe treaty, which guarantees protection
TO NE kte~dly Indians. Under that guaranty the
I United States passIvcy suffer NcInto.h and bis
trends to be murder ed in the hour of peril. no
arm ~ iiled TO save OF TO protect The danger pas,
the Chiefs massacred--ther property d. teoyeI
| or dspsrsed-ihe survivors, in Georgia, asking