Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-06-30

,enastons before referred TO, to the Senate. They
determined not 10 recommend the ratification, and
the fact was communicated to the Secretary, VINO
hereupon requested the Committee 10 call Tor those
papers, which they refused to do; but member OF
the Committee, MIR. Edwards OF Connecticut. laid
on the table of the Senate resolution calling Tor
them. While it remained Enacted upon had
con ersation with the Chairman of the Committee
on Indian Affairs, who expressed 10 me his opin-
ion that the Indians might be induced TO yield ell
the lands within the limits OF Georgia, and under
this belief he resumed the negotiation with the
assent of the Secretary of War. 1t was at this
period that my colleague and Major Merriwether,
after examining various maps, came to the con
cluson which has been communicated to you by
the former, and which announced as our opin-
ion to the Secretary of War; but he was at the
same time told, that the proposed cession, alter
wards carried into effect in the Supplemental Arti-
Gle, would not remove our objections to the Irea-
ty, nor would any thing short ot surrender in
terms of all the lands within the limits OF Georgia
The course which prescribed TO ourselves was
this-Firs,, To maintain The old treaty inviolate
Second, Failing in this, 10 obtain cession in
terms of all the lands in Georgia under the new
ueaty-Thrd, If this could not be done, to obtain
as much land as we could, averring at the same
time our determination to oppose the treaty as an
iniraction Of the rights Of Georgia. We distinctly
told the Secretary, when he urged that very small
part of the land OF Georgia would be left out by the
treaty, if any, that the principle on which we ac
ted was equally involved whether the part LETT out
was great or small. When, therefore, the treaty
and its supplemental article were laid before the
Senate, il was laid on the table at the instance OF
my colleague and myself, and submitted a resolu-
ton requesting the President TO negotiate further
with the hostile Indians for the surrender in express
terms of all the lands within our limits, and with
the followers of Mcintosh for the purpose of max
4 1nnu and
mated debate took place these resolutions, but
the Senate adjourned without taking the question,
s before we again went into Executive business,
ascertained on consulting with friends that they
could not be carried. Then we determined to en-
deav or to amend the treaty and contest its rati
cation. proposed substitute for the FIRST article
and Judge White of Tennessee, whose uniform
support l take great pleasure IN acknowledging,
brought forward the same resolutions In favor of the
| friends of Mcintosh, by way of amendment to the
treaty, which had before offered In the form of a
request TO the President 10 negotiate an additional
article. In all this failed. The treaty ratit-
ed, and we recorded votes against 1t. The
son assigned for its ratification, and which appear
ed to influence the members generally was, that
there no evidence, tina, any OF the Georgia
lands were excluded and that if when the line be-
tween Georgia and Alabama run, ii should APP
pear that any had been left out, immediate mea-
sures would be taken 10 procure II. 1t was in vain
that replied that the wishes and immediate rights
of a sovereign state ought not 70 be thus put TO
hazard-that the uncertainty under which we were
acting was the fault OF the United States, she
had prevented or delayed the running of the line
between Alabama and Georgia--that unless we
could have all cur lands we were entitled to ask,
that the old treaty should be maintained, or the
charges against it proved, and that the Senate
ought not TO shrink from the investigation. My
colleague reiterated these ideas and made other
| suggestions, but they were unavailing The Senate
gladly avoided the unpleasant investigator which
awaited them, if they rejected the new treaty, and
ratified 1t hn,iJ believe, rather in the hope
than the belief that all the lands within the limits of
Georgia would be ceded by it.
Defeated in these particulars, still thought it
an act of duty 10 the friends of McIntoah, and
interesting to Georgia, to attempt something for
their relief, and for the encouragement of their
emigration. In this have succeeded to an extent
which you haze no doubt SEEM as the act has been
published. Then the bill appropriating money
to carry the treaty into effect, and with it the dis
covery of the fraud which is developed in the re-
port of the Committee OF Conference which / sem
you. This completely turned the tables on our
accusers. and such the indignation of the Sc
nate, that if the new treaty had been then in our
power, it would have been promptly rejected. The
debate the report which you will see published
in the Inte!ligencer OF Thursday next, afforded an
opportunity to take brief review OF the transac-
ton, of which ! availed myself, and the Represen-
tatives of Georgia in the other house, were not
unmndful of the occasion or of their duties.
Such, sir, is brief narrative of this affair. We
cannot say with Francis, that have lost every
thing but our honor, but we can say with honest
pride, that IL is unimpaired.
am very respectfully and truly yours,
in. MACPHERSON BERRIEN.
Gov. TRoUP.
TIE NEW CREEK TREATY AGAIN.