Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1827-05-01
UoMMV9NICATTON.
No Ill.
No Ill.
Fbrthe Defa,oare Journal.
THE GEORGIA QUESTION.

THE GEORGIA QUESTION. G
The general government. anxious to fulfil the J.,
stipulations of the convention OF 1902. appointed
Commissioners in 1928 treat with the Indians for
further cessions. The Commissioners, Messrs. :
Campbell and Meriwether, proceeded in October, ',
1925 to the Cherokee country-but Notwithstanding >
their most strenuous efforts to induce the Cherckees
to treat they received positive refusal In the .
ensuing winter the Cherokees sent deputatlon to .
Washington to make known this determination to =
government. In May the following year, the Chiefs
Of the Creek nation assembled at the Iuckabachee !
town, and passed solemn edict, declaring their :
fixed determination sell OF their land. and
denouncing the punishment of death against the vio-
lation Of the law. Alta subsequent assembly OF the
whole nation, held at the Pole Cat Spring, in Octo-
Der, this determination was ratified ; and at the
meeting with the Commissioners of the United States
at Broken Arrow, on the lst OF December following,
it was formally made known to them. and every pro-
position to treat was promptly rejected.
The m tives of this determination must be SUI
fciently obvious The benevolent policy OF the
general government towards these children of the
forest. had diverted them from the vagrant and
precarious habits of savage life and substituted /
taste for the comforts of civilization. 1t was the |
policy of Washington under whose administration.
in 1891, the basis of Indian civilization was laid
in the treaty of Holston, with the Cherokee nation.
1t is pertinent to the occasion to remark, that this
treaty, concluded with of the identical tribes
whose lands the Governor of Georgia claims right
to take by force contains solemn guaranty to the
Indians Of these very lands The seventh article
is in these words
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Snerokee hdtlo' al 'e'. l,uI nv az:
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oeen uio'e s'ah WV G tha ,,nton
ueo'Sfa' my "a,s Ia ',e.t,i 80 .;tat
anu ioohu "'oio Se.V M - 80 -
IN agriculture anu uie "!'s. NY nay So'
men.' laws, alu ev.ia, 'Sna $50 d polo fEo4
ceea'ngs d. le h,sd a IS ~, w
spring III io|a lnese .ho y, a. ~
fortunate race throw .e"oeeo ul,Jn .,e y,
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wmch mus maxi It's way ~ uo'oa' ~; "
approaching ue uee 'l'a' o''iu "'''' " N'"'
red ana nome ,r.c,
we nope ahi cne''sh u'e IT, 10y u'Iy
" that our iather' ue tresuet', WI no' "sh 10 'o
our land we love hh,' we lu , NJ 70 Soou haL
and we cannot pei'e'e ne wou,u WISH ~ oesooy M
red GAAsdrenlof t'e peneht u ns WIZ c''',u'en
we want any y. out ss'',e " asi
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our Mtners bones ~ neste' 43uasA I'D
twas the ons!ac'e ctca,ea ~ VIZ oPpus'.o'i
tn8naans "'Hcn gave p1." - wy ."
denunc'auons ~ ny uev' "s'
governor aroup' ~ 'oS4 =. 'e't Ss''slu W..
@ cation to the Presidents OF warren ~ the oeiesa1c
hold this angue ,
Argument - hot heoessa'y M,e"o"' ''a t. a pow
er winch ihterposes oos'acies " 'ne
oi ITS own promises, violates ~ 'a'e' aiu ''a'
plead the fmpossniMy =" l0''"'"' az ens"s'''e' I,
when that 'mposshlllty y produced py nose WI
engage TO perform ~ wou'o DC equa'ly o'shohoo
able and hyp"cr'ticai
6 What has created 'ne STRONG desire OF y, u