American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1825-06-07
CREEK INDIANS.
E,.o,, the South Carolina State Gazette.

.;n.nai Chiefs of the Creek Indians, by about 40Ol
narr;ors of his own nation. When all the tactsli
relanp to this subject shall be known to the peo-l
nile of the United States, think they WIZ DC o.
onniop, that M'Intosh was not inhrdereo NV
rather that he has been duly executed ACCORDING
TO the known laws and usages OF the na'ioh ~ "A'e
he belonged. 49, -.
From The time of President Washington to the
nrrsent dav the government Of the United States has
been ende ayoring to impress on the Indian rioes
he great benefits which would arise from setlieo'
instead of roaming lie: and, from an aten''on
TO separate property, the arts OF agriculture anu
the habits of civilization Year after year has lhis
been urged upon them Uhc Creeks particularly)-l
agents on the part Of the government nave Deen
appointed to live among them, and 10 fnrther these
desirable and benevolent views. The Creek lndi
ans have been made fully sensible Of the adyanta
pes of civilization and improving very last 10
conformity TO the views OF government. Having
so recently given up to the United States more
than one half of their inheritance, comprising inc
best norton of their lands and that, without any
other consideration but guarantee ior tne qu'e'
enjoyment of the residue-the Creek nation was
very reasonably and very decidedly aserse TO listen
Ito any proposals for parting with more OF tne'r
territory. They have long been keeping IN view
the further progress OF their Improvement IN me
arts of peace and the habits Of rural llie and the
They are people, at this time, alive to the I'M
movement Of their land by cultivation and they
pay great attention to the increase OF their HOOKS
| and herds The habits OF savages and hunters are
| fast wearing away among them. WIN lnese ac-
ourements and notions, sedulously promoted by
our own governments they have become sensible Of
the value Of property they decline to part win
any more OF their lands meaning hereafter 10 oc
cupy them as cultyaors OF the soil, instead oil
| nd 10 a
lblame them for this determination? Can we. the
people of the United States, who have encouraged
and advised them to it
i The Creek nation was originally formed OF three
|or four tribes, iortuitously thrown together bu
'lthey have, for some centuries, composed one po
4 Utica body, governed by the same laws and usages
The population Of the Creeks is contained IN abou
l56 towns or representative districts. Each OF thes
Ills governed at home, and is represented I'D thei
i national councils and assemblies, by Chtet KNOW
$ to- and acknowledged in that capacity by the whole
nation To render valid any national act or 10 pas
away any par, Of the national terrilory,a majorit,
of these confedera,ed districts must consent b.
+ means of their Chiefs by whom the deed OF trans
I fer must De duly signed This is the known am
long p actised law Of this nation OF Indians AMI
: General MIn;osh we'll knew ii.
M'Intosh. nearly white man himself, and "a
: ther an agent cf the white people. whose manner
! he affected, than an Indian, either in his outward
/, department his propensities, undertook to obta
: the cession Of the lands from the Creeks to tn
United States in favor OF Georgia. But tn
. Greeks had already passed law according to thei
forms, making it death for any Chief to propose a
alienation Of any more OF their national lands a
being inconsistent with their views OF agriculture
scuement, and destructive TO the interest OF thel
posterlty. Accordingly, when M'Intosh propose
this interchange, which was to drive whole ma
lion OF men, women, and children, from the Ian
n and the habltations OF their foreathers, and leay
the bones of their immediate ancestors, to b
ploughed up by strangers not more than or 8 on
OF the Sc districts, represented at the propo
sed treaty the other Chiefs refusing to attend
III The treaty. SO entered into, which the l2t
nf of February, 1921 instead oil being signed by
), majority Of the Chiefs OF the six and thirty town
Of the Greek nation, signed by M'lntosh an
;" Etome Tustunnuggee, the old Coweta Chief, an
by them alone These were the only persons en-,
~ lied TO be considered as Chiefs Representative
of the Creek nation: the other signers nj
Representative chiefs, but men Of straw, created
the spot by M'lntosh for the express purpose
effecting irregu9fy and by fraud, what the Creel
- were determined never TO consent to formally, ar
ii according to their known laws and usages NJ
"a have they done it.
Under this fraudulent and pretended conveyanc
whole nation are to be forciby dispossessed
their property--of the lands they inherit from the
= ancestors-of the land they looked to the futu
inheritance Of children no longer bred up in saya.
80 habits but gradually looking forward to the set
ng life OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. again into savs
life among sayages new and distant lands, al
:. forced into almost inevitable hostility with the trib
\; they compelled to intru de on. This is to
done, after these poor wreches have, Tor series
years, been advised, pressed, tempted exhorted c
couraged, and by all manner Of means, Undue
and persuaded, by our orcn government, to quit /
hunter life, and to embrace fixed and agicul.u
habits These people, their wives and infants, a
ew thus to be driven away against their manifest a
100, rightu claims agains, their interest against thu
90, Intentions and ncI,.ons and IN the u,ter deo,