Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1825-06-17

CREEK INDIANS
Governor Iroup's message to the Legislature of
Georgia.
EXECUTIVE DEPARrMFSr
tAEcUTIvE DEPARTMENT,
,fiUedgeuuLe. Sd June 1905

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
MaledgeuiHe, Sd June, 1926.
| Inc papers now communicated would have
peen laid before you soon as received. but The
measures to be taken in CARRYING into effect tho
wishes OF the President, depending on the arrival
oi Ma Jor General Gaines, then daily expected it
was deemed best TO withhold them until that arrival
When Doth the views of the General Government,
ana the measures consequent upon them could be
luily disclosed II being understood, however.
'iiIt Hiuch pubic anxiety is manifested for their
puDhcauon, they are transmitted to yor. You
VIII perceive by those views that if the General
government, assuming the exclusive right to ex-
pound and carry into effect the Treaty of the In
u'ah springs, shall persist in giving it the CON
stIucuon which is to be found in the letter Of the
] secretary OF War, and elsewhere il would have
oeeh Deter Tor all parties that the Treaty had never
| oeeh concluded but 1t is quite obvious TO Won
mat admitting the power and the construction the
execution oil 1t may be indefinitely postponed at the
VIII OF the United States. According 70 that
VIII, we are not to survey the country because the
hos'ie Indians who opposed the Treaty have also
opposed the survey /; they continued TO oppose
ootn treaty and survey, and TO conduct themselves
IN the most hostile and offensive manner. The
| hos'lle Indians would prohibit US from passing TO
anu iTo through the country, and the prohibition
would he equally reasonable the act of survey so
lar as regards the security and peace of the Indians
iucr tue treaty, Is as innocent as the act of mas
sing 10 and tro. Whilst therefore by the treaty.
we havethe absolute title to the soil, and the all
so'ute jurisdiction, with the reservation merely Of
temporary occupation by the Indians, and of now
er In The United States TO protect them In their
persons and effects, the right Of survey even when
'he consent OF those who coded the country is de-
hled 10 us aud this denial founded on an assertion
ue'iy destitute OF truth, viz that the troubles in
'he nation have been caused by the act of this Co
:, "hlch procured the consent to survey
TIE country In the absence of all other testimony.
" sue" 'hat tbese troubles had their origin in 9th
er' and very different causes it is sufficient n on
qure what assignable connection exists bet,vee,
me survey OF the country and the hostility Of tho
ihulahs The survey could neither expedite mn,
fe'afd Tie removal OF the Indians tie Indi,ne
were no. certain that even with tlIer consent the
survey would be attempted. Surely therefore If
ilS nau oeeh the cause Of excitement the Indians
would nave waited the event Il is conceivable
nd. te cessioh OF the lands might have produced
hosuiiucs-out failing TO do So it is inronccivat,e
now the consent 10 survey them which had M 70
ia1on 10 Their eventual surrender and aba,do,,,.,
could produce that effect-The object of,bo 49,.
eminent OF Georgia In procuring the consent vac
not 10 se'te the country one day sooner than the
PROVISIONS oil The Treaty would authorize but in
9'' EeJ"s the country to save the time CONSUMED
III ,hat operation, to extend its laws over il anil N
setue II immediately on the departure If tho T.
dIans aud this was of the more innor,srco -
cause the Government was 10 expect in r.,
ume IRE arrival OF their Civil Engineer and &c
mat was to be the field OF his first and most int,
esttng operations, It was necessary TO place him,
there under the guardianship and safety Of our o,
laws But so II happens, that this act of s,,rvev
IN winch nobody before ever saw harm or causs NJ
oHence, IS suddenly magnfed into an evil prolific
% all other evils and this merely because the Gov
.h"eht OF the United States is so informed bv its
H,seh'-'hat Agent who stands conspiculouslv
'ssu as me prime mover and nstigaor of them
"i--Who opposed the treaty from the beoinpino,
protested u TO the last, foretold tbe ,n;.cbior
whlch were 10 come oft, and is vet the confdon
uaI' rusty Ind impartial witness ,pon ,,,bcso az;
tum The United States Government ,cr,,.o. a..
Executive Government Of Georgia. Tbe EveonN
I'VE OF Georgia will not retort the accus,,io0 :,
WI not say that The Government Of tho ITni,.J
states IS responsible in the sight Of Heaven and oe
me Word Tor the crimes (f any committed Inv
'he Agent-bccause the Government of Georgia i |
n" IN INC Pracuce oil thus treating the Government
OF the United States-bui il must be permitted NJ
'iy usunctiy, that upon The naked information and
SoVice OF the Agent, the Government The TTo,sd
ola'es has suffered itself so far to enter into tbo
views, and 10 adopt the feelings of the AGENT in |
e''uon 70 the late events connected with the Tre.
~ rs 70 have given already expostions 10 two ~
US important articles most palpsbly erroneous ~.
unwaTranted by the letter or spirit ,Seitber IN |
only one OF that article which cedes absolp,ot.
we 'eIfI'ofy' and therefore Of course cedes the in,
isucIion the other Of that which stipulates he
p'yhent OF the money 10 the Indians Of the hrsf.
'"0ugn mas Oeen sad for message; Of the second,