Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-09-26
DOMESTIC.

money given by the New Treaty for the land, was
paid into Council, and in violation of the positive
terms OF that treaty. divided exclusively among the
last treaty making party Ridge and Vann parti-
cpating, we are informed, to the amount of 500
dalars each
The suboined extract of letter to the Editors.
dated the 9th inst. affords additional light on this
| subject
Having been at Fort Mitchell lately, made
some enquiries respecting the payment of the
$2l7, 900, which by the New Treaty was to be
"paid to the Chiefs of the Creek Nation 10 be di-
vided among the Chiefs and Warriors of the said
Nation" and was surprised when understood that
the Indian Agent, COL CrowelI, had received in
sructions from the &c War Department. to con-.
fine the paymsnt of said money to that party of the
Indians known the Hostile Party, to the exclu-
sion of the friends of the late General Mcintosh.
The money since that time has been paid, and in
the very manner report said it would be. The
McIntoshs and their friends received not cent of
the money. Will you be so good, as to give me
through the medium OF your paper, the reasons of
this strange and unjust construction of the Sd arti-
| Gle Of the New Treaty? am at loss hoy TO
conjecture that an article simple. so general and
comprehensive, could have undergone such me-
tamorphosis such perversien from its true spirit
and letter, as to mean only the hostile Indians
had thought that all mankind greed ia the means
of entertaining the intention oe legislator, which
are the following " the words "context - "sub.
Ject matter" g. effects and consequence and
the resson and spirit of the law''-but from the
Indian Agents instructions, perceive the Cabinet
| at Washington have introduced a new method of
| Interpretation, which knew would not be recoo.
| Missed in tribunals where precedents are authority
and party feeling had not deprived the dispensers
of justice, of honor, fairness, and virtue. L have
heard that it was Judge Berren and Col. TattnalI's
opinion that the Mcintosh party should have been
participants in the division of the consideration
mOneE-anu that i'm 'On orPs
prevailed, and that the 500, 900 was considered
as gratuity upon the condition that they produced
5000 men ready TO emigrate. How then has il
happened that the Administration have acted in
defiance OF the intention of the Senate in the rati
cation OF that Treaty? Will you be so good as TO
explain this tissue OF fraud, as am dissatisfied with
every reason can bring to bear on it, in the exten-
uation of their conduct might say criminalitv .,
Georgia Journal.
MILLEDGEvILLE, Sept I2.-The Council of
the Creek Indians which cow ened on the 9th ult.
after having sat upwards of 20 days, has been dis
solved; and the report we some time since noticed
was too truly verified. The 3l7,6OO dollars al,
lowed by the treaty concluded last winter at Wash.
ington, was paid into Council, and contrary to ito
positive stipuations, divided among the hostile, TO
the entire exclusion OF the Mcintosh or frIendlv
| Indians. The famous Cherokees, Ridge s. Yam.
tor their disnerested services are said to have re
| ceived, each, $S,5O0.-Such unjust, inhuman and
Indians was
certainly never apprehended by Congress nor will
1t be justified by an unprejudiced, benevolent and
national community. What will become of The
friendly party They have not the intended in.
| cucement or means TO enigrate. Their party have
consequently become much diminished, and is des-
tined to drag out miserable existence or become
| sycophan,s 10 their mortal foes, and perbans IN
suffer the fate OF their once adored and noble hero.
Mcintosh
| 1t is further understood that these same Chero
KEGS, Ridge and Vann, present directing the
Councils, and that they had been chiefly inst,u
mental in procuring Decree TO punish with death.
any Indian who should persuade another TO emjqrate
When Ridge & Vann required to be ordered
oil as respasses and intruders, the Agent answered
that he had no power.
AT our latest date from the Commissioners
running the boundary line between this State and
Alabama, they were progressing in direct line
from Nickajack to Miler's bend 1.-THE most western
projection OF the Chatahooche, and should the
weather be favorable, it is expected, they will be
aoie 10 complete the survey by the Goth of the
present month
We have heard it reported, and not without
reason tor its belief, that satellite of Gen. Clark's
who attended the late Indian Council al Fort
Mitchell, not content with the pacific disposition
manifested by the Indians relative 10 the SURVEYS
now progressing East of the Chatahoochie, actually
drew up, had presented to, and signed by the
"'chOhSudnCe duOTesSeu 10 the General
Government, protesting against the surveys being
made, and claiming its interference.
such are the humiatng and contemplate
devices the Governor of Georgia has to contend
against in the execution of his Executive functions
Recorder.
LATE FROM THE INDIANS.
Recent intelligence from the Creek nation in
forms US, that the Council of Chiefs, Head Men and
Warriors, dissolved about the last of August
TheImoney paid to them by government
agreeably to the provisions of the New Treaty,
and was equitably distributed among the whole
nation.
An order was passed, declaring the iIlegality
Of the threatened survey by Gov. Troup, and the
determination of the Council to resist it. An
appeal in the form of letter was made to the
Governor, and 10 warriors were detailed from
each of their towns, for the purpose of stoppine
the surveyors; they were directed to use no
violence, if their purposes could be effected With
out IT, first to represent TO the Surveyors that
they were violating the provisions of the Treaty.
and ddrise them to return. IF this aduice should
be neglected, then they were instructed. to take
away their instruments and order them ont Of
the country, and resort to force il necessary.
The Agent, we understand, gave the Indians
long talk in order to dssuade them from this
measure. But they replied that their men were
going over the river to build their cabins, and 10
prepare for the removal Of the nation in January
Their women and their children would be lsft
behind unprotected, 10 gather in their corn and
potatoes, and take care OF their stock If the Sur
yeyors came among them, they would be followed
by crowds OF young men, who feared neither their
Great Father, the Great Spirit and who vvonld
insult their women, eat IN their corn and t.;..