Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1825-07-08

other white persons except Lis sub gent and Ham
bly,, his interpreter; that the former of these might
read long communication from the Cherokees, ex-
hortng the creeks to dispose of foot OF their
territory. OF this, The Agent gave no intima;on,
OF which your committee are appraised. Nor wa,
any notice taken of third meeting, in November,
at the Pole Cat Springs Consisting wholly or prin-
cipally of the red sticks oil the late wary although
the meeting was at the house of the sub-As gent
who again acted Secretary and published the pro-
cee,linss. Thee proceedings amounted to renew
ed declaration that lands should be sold. During
all this period, and previously from the fall oil
1923, the committee has no doubt of there having
been on foot an active continued and steady system
OF measures throughout that country, by the ennis
saries OF the Agent in concert with the hostile In
dians, TO iorestall and defeat tie views OF the
United States Governments; and in doing so, 10
sacrifice the interest OF Georgia. and even the safety
and welfare oithe Indians themselves. The constant
and intimate intercourse, that must suppose ne
/ cessarily exist between tie Agent and lis sub
! Agent, predispo>es Us to presume concert OF ac-
! ton between them. And when we see that the ac-
tiy and continued reachery Of the latter Is known
to the former, and taken, either 10 re-
strain such conduct make known avert its ten
dences The presumption OF their being confeoerates,
becomes almost irresiSt IDLE. The Agents conduct
al the hrst treaty IN exact accordance with the
views we impute TO him. His assumed neutrality
wiliul departure from duty; and if, Your COM
mitee believe, his neutrality only assumed, it
was superadding duplici;y to crime. 1t eppehrs
that these facts most OF them in due time
made known TO the government. Aremoval oil the
sub-Agent all the remedy that was applied.
His place soon filled (and it is understood a,
the instance OF the Agent) by the present incum-
bent, who had already earned the Agents conf
dence by similarity of views, and particularly 10y
an opposition sufficiently violent to any present
cession of territory. His predecessor doubtless
remained there to continue his Vaccinations in secret
so that the only effect ofthe measure, however well
intended is add one more To the number of those
petty tylants, who Cypress and harrass the nation,
that part OF it who have lavishel their blood for
the American people.
Ga receiving the renewed and still more peremp-
tory orders OF his government, the Agent COM
PEELED apparently 10 cooperate with the Commits
soners at the second treaty. But III his talk 10 the
indians, 1t Is curious 10 observe with what art
he keeps within the letter and out Of the spirit o
his Instructions. He had acknowledged 10 Mai
Merriweher, that the proposal for their removal
beyond The Missippi would, if acccded 10, be highly
10 their advantage that g they would be fools if
they did not accept ito But when addressing the
Indians, he draws himself carefully within the shell
OF his instructions, and nothing appears but what l.
rigidly official. g He is instructed, he says, by
the War Department to tell them and So" That
'' what the Commissioners had told them was all
the talk of the President That 90 the President
wished them 10 sell their lands and 20 beyond the
Mississippi" That &c it was his wish al because
it the Presidents wish" And that . ifhe was
| continued Agent, he rouid go NTH them and be
their irend.' Perhaps II was impossible for human
| ingenuity 10 have suggested to the imaginatons of
that assembly greater curse than his frienpship, or
stronger argument against removal than the pros
pect OF being accompanied by him. When, how
ever, nothing could stem the CURRENT when nothing
that could be said done in the counsel or out OF
1t. would prevent that consummation so devouily
dreaded, and all or nearly all the Chiefs had agreed
to sign the treaty on the next day. and this instru-
ment was actually preparing, TO time was indeed 10
ee lost. At that critical instant desperate
is resorted to. A considerable number of the
Chiefs are sent away that night! Hambly was the
visible agent in this deed. The same whom the
commissioners informed the government was IN
worthy OF confidence, but who remained, and we
believe is still the confidential friend and srpreter
OF The Agent, the bearer of this 0rder az il
was called, and of the ridiculous falsehoods that in
duced them to obey il. We cannot doubt that this
man Hambly, is The devoted implicit instrument Of
the Agent. His situation of Interpreter itself i'm
plies 1t. But Ito take one instance among many
that are scattered through the evidence) wlTen we
hear this mere Interpreter tell Col. Williamson that
he (Fiambly) was the proxy of the upper Chiefs,
and invested with the power TO sell retain their
patrimonlal tesIiory--a power that they denied to
so many OF their principal Chiefs, whom they have
even attempted to murder, and some of whom they
have actually murdered, for executing-when we
hear him, moreover Boosting fhaving defeated The
Treaty at Broken Arrow, and darkIy limiting to
Williamson, that CroNell = ,Ig continued in his
Agency or not would decide HIM (Hambly) how
to WELD this tremendous authC ity two conclusions
force themselves upon US LIST. that he has neither
any regard tor truth, or ingenuity in a lic and
secondly, that he is devoted body and soul 10 his
patron. We see that he is formed of materials base
enough for any deed OF darkness, but that lie has
not the talent himself to contrive the mems
The treaty was however signed by those who
remained, being ffty-two in number of the Chiefs,
head men and warriors of the nation; and witnessed
among the others by the Agent himself, and in his
official capacity. 1t is well known that on the next
day he denounced to his government, the Com
missioners and the treaty; the former as having
transcribed their Instructions and the latter as being
a nullity Tor the want of the signatures of those
very Chiefs who had thus been sent away: and il is
equally notorious that he followed on to Washing
ton himself, at the heels of his protest, for the
avowed purpose Of preventing the ratification Of the
treaty. l5y those two acts alone ne stands recorded
IN this dilemma. He has, either officially santioned
pretended treaty, which is all lie; or ne has en-
deavored TO defeat that was legal in its form,
and which in its substance provided for objects that
ne Hau previously acknowledged 10 be just and
benevolent.
The motive of the Agent for such an obstinate
opposition 10 the requirement of territory by Geor-
Gia Cith This gear and the lasts believed 10 be al
most universally understood in this community In
the evidence the committee find traces of it i'm the
occasional insinuaions, or less distinct of the
confidential associates of the Agent II is 10 be seen
they think in the whole course OF Walkers con
duct while he was sIb-Agenl; in that Of Tripleu
before he was sub-Agent as proved by the testi-
nOnY Oh BrlZnl. and since he has hnen In thnt Of.