Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1825-08-30

construction OF the treaty is taken from tie pocS-
cts of the wives, children brothers and friends of
Mcintosh, and paid to the hostile chiefs. who
murdered him contrary to every principle of r s,ice
and stipulation OF treaty, if you intended il as
the reward Of gallant aud meri,orous acts com,
manded by yourselves. And this the friendly
chiefs cannot but feel most deeply. Nobody ac
quanted with the Indian character can ever believe
that General Gaines will make either safe or per
manent pacihcation until the offering of blood for
blood has fulfilled the law aud the usage of the
country. An ephemeral peace may be patched
up by force menace, but ephemeral il will be.
making in the end the catastrophe the more bloody
had written you OF certain parsonage of the
State Of South Carolina having ntereddles in this
matter, according to information, communicated To
me and submitted to you; there is a strong cham of
corroborative circumstances you will see TO es-
tabsh the facts there alledged and running through
| the entire mass of evidence. The object undoubt-
edly was the annulment of the treaty.
| Whatever knavcry or folly may suggest witt, the
view TO disannull the treaty, will of course be nm.
needed at Washington but indeed sir very much
doubt, unless you have looked with a scrutinizipy
eye to the history of this matter, whether some Of
the sel-interested oppugners OF the treaty NAV not
lead you into error. The idea that the m,;oritv Of
the entire Creek nation is alone competent IN make
treaty, is the fallacious that could be enter
tanned; it is SO far from true in the general that up
less 10y merest accident never happens to be true
in any particular. You have only TO turn IN the
y, notes OF Col. Hawkins, whose authority YOU cam
not dispute, be satisfied that according to the laws
s usages ofthe nation the most important public af
fairs involving Interests determined not by
majority but by minority and frequently very small
minority OF the nation. In the whole course of his
long residence among them, he Fever knew even
the most popular war concurred in by a majority
and all authorities, and all custom will prove to you
that with regard TO the most important of their ma
lcna acts, having relation either TO peace or war;
Coweta must take the lead. If treaty be signed
by the Chiefs of Coweta is considered good: il no,
signed by them, good for nothing. Georgia was
settled in '32-In '33 or "a the first treaty. with
the Greeks was held, then think in &c and again
In 30. The Cowetas are al ways foremost Their
Councils are almost invariably holden on the Cove
ia ground, and Gen. Ogethorpe paid them his frs.
visit there. Hence il is stated in the evidence that
Mcintosh had the power to sell the whole coun-
try, and hence the great efforts made TO prevail on
the old Cowea Chief, Etomme Tusiennugeee NOT
to sell the country efforts which succeeded al Bro
ken Arrow; but this old and !-fated hiefain game
TO Inc afterwards, you read in the documents to
say he had been deceived by the bad wl.te men and
was opposed 10 the sale at Broken Arrow Inn, then
his eyes were opened, and he would follow the adj
vice OF mis- Father the President and sell the lands
Having made this recapitulaiion and common t,.
ry, permit me to suboin that for the qualification
OF a few mercenary and scrdd characters in the
Indian country. you threaten The most fragrant in
justice to Georgia. In The country TO be surveyed
within the limits OF Georgia, none very few of
the hostile party reside, and every of tie oppo-
site party seek the surveys as a measure of conye
nence and interest. The survey will in the frs,
instance extend no farther West than the Cba,a-
hoochie The act OF the Legislature leaving it dis.
creiionary with the Governor 10 run to that river
beis;re the boundary line between Georgia and Ala
bama shall have been ascertained. Having CORES.
ronded with the Governor of Alabama upon this
subject and received his assurance that The LegisIa-
ture OF that State will Immediately on is meeting
IN November, cordially cooperate with Georgia in
running the line, and there being difficulty in ascer-
taaing the precise point at which hat line will COM
mence; the running Is postponed 10 meet the wish
es and expectations of the State of Alabama
The evidence which remained 10 be taken by the
Commissioners will be forwarded as soon as receiv-
ed Very Respectfully,
GIN. TROUP.
i The President of the United States