Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1825-08-09

CREEK INDIANS.
Summary of a correspondence 6et,oeen Cor
eTnor IToup and Gen. Gaines.

Summary of a correspondence 5et,oeen Cor
eTnoT Iroup and Cen Gaines.
Gov. Troup o Gen. Gaines 18th June.
SIR In the course of the desutory and inform
| al communication with you Of to-day, my desire
was minated that the line between this State and
Alabama should be run as early as possible and r
requested the favor of you to make known TO your
Government this desire and without delay. "A
letter VIII be Immediately despatched to the Gov
ernor OF Alabama TO apprse him of the resolution
OF the government of Georgia to run that line and
TO ask his concert and corporation. If that con-
! cert and cooperation be refused we will proceed
to the line without them as we will also pro-
coed In due time to make the survey of the lands
within our limits, dsregarding any obstacles which
may be opposed from any quarter. You will see
therefore how highly important it is that upon these
points the two Governments should understand
each ether Immediately.
Gen. Gaines 10 Coz ITOup, from 1fiHedgeuiie,
14th June.
SIR In reply TO your exceency's letter of yes
terdays date, have to observe that although il is
not my purpose to enter into the discussion of any
matter OF controversy between the government Of
Georgia and that OF the IT, S. not Immediately con-
nected with duties confided to me; yet, perceving
as do upon this occasion, direct collision be-
tween the views OF your Excellency, and those
embraced in my instructions from the Department
Of War, collision that may tend TO produce much
embarrassment in our Indian relations, and which
The interests OF the General and State G. ov ernments
equally require should be obviated; I deem it pro-
per TO address you upon the subject in a manner
less liable to misapprehension or misconstructon
than what have stated verbally, in the interviews
with which you have favored me.
Your letter, which s!.all without delay refer to
the Department OF War, announces your intention
TO cause the line TO be run between this State and
Alabama and to survey the public land of the State
within the late ceded territory. Upon the last mem
TONED subject, am distinctly authorised to state
10 the Indians that, the President of the United
States has " suggested to Governor Troup the ne
cessity Of his abstaning from his entering into and
surveying the coded land, till the time prescribed
by the treaty for their removal"
There rs perhaps no principle Of national law bet
ter established or more universally admitted, than
that the contracting parties TO treaty possess the
right, and in like the one in question, the ex-
elusive right, of expounding and carrying into ef-
feet such treaty. The decision Of the President
IN this case must govern me in my intended con-
ference with the Indians and this conference mus,
necessarily take place beforethe subject nbe sub
mltted 70 the President; nor is II probable that if il
were again submitted, that it would undergo any
change.
cannot therefore but express confident hope
your Excelis1cy may the propricty OF sbstaining
from the proposed surveys, both Of the boundary
line, and of the land within the late ceded territory
until the period arrives, at which the removal OF
the indiens IS required.