The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1827-02-16


" of that state" But the President, with
the forbearance which has characterized
the present, as well as the last administra-
ton, in treating the Indian question, did
not adopt the painful proceeding authori-
zed by the law, hoping, as every lover of
his country must hope, that the milder al
tentative might avail. If there be mind
incapable of perceiving in the President
message the deep emotion with which he
obeys the voice of the law and the requiSi-
tons of his oath, such mind is one, of
which we envy neither the sensibility nor
the candour.
"The President" says the Telegraph,
d" has undertaken to say that the Treaty of
" the Indian Springs was void, and that he
" will enforce the Treaty of Washington
" at the point ofthe bayonet." Whatever
opinion has been advanced by the Presi-
dent on the subject of the Treaty at the
Indian Springs, is the opinion of the SEN
ate also; an opinion Solemnly announced
in the preamble to that Treaty, "advised
and consented to by that body" and ratifi-
ed at Washington, April %, 1926. The
language of this preamble is too plain to be
the subject of construction though, for that
very reason,it is an inviting theme for mis-
construction:
"Whereas Treaty was concluded at
"the Indian Springs, on the twelfth day
I" of February last, between Commissioners
{" on the part of the United States, and
portion of the Creek Nation, by which
an extensive district of country was coded
/" to the United States,
"And whereas great majority of the
" Chiefs and Warriors of the said nation
"have protested against the execution of
" the said Treaty, and have represented
''tnat the same was signed on their part by
persons having no sufficient authority to
" form treaties, or make cessions, and that
6 the stipulations in said Treaty are, there
&C fore, wholly void,
And whereas the United States are
&c unwilling that difficulties should exist in
3" the said Nation, which may eventually
g lead to an intestine war, and are still
6 more unwilling that any cessions of land
&c should be made to them, unless with the
'' fair understanding and full assent of the
g Tribe making such cession, and for
Is just and adequate consideration, it being
g the policy of the United States, in all
|" their intercourse with the Indians, to
Is treat them justly and literally, as be-
' comes the relative situation of the par
'' ties,
"Now, therefore, in order to remove the
&c difficulties which have thus arisen, to
|" satisfy the great body of the Greek Ma
50 ton, and to reconcile the contending
!" parties into which it is unhappily divided,
" the following articles have been agreed
Is upon and concluded, between James
'' Barbour, Secretary Of War, specially
IS authorized as aforesaid, and the said
IS Chiefs and Head Men representing the
s Greek Nation of Indians"
If, In the execution of the T9eaty-a
aw of the land-to which the foregoing
extracts are preliminary, the President has
escorted to means provided by another
law OF the land, and, in doing so, has Sc
lected the course least unpleasant in its
character; it might have been expected
that the discharge of solemn trust would
lind some favor even in the Inquisition of
party. If, however, the individuals who
nave attempted the anti-republican exper.
ment ofan avowed proscriptive opposition
o men, whatever may be their measures,
ire determined to mingle the bitter regrets
and the feverish hopes of baff1ed ambition,
with question in itself sufficiently delicate
and embarrassing: it only remains for the
friends of the dignity and peace of the I'm
ion, to watch with diligence their efforts,
and to expose with temperance their mis-
representations. We cannot avoid hoping
that an abatement of the excited feelings
now unhappily prevalent in the highly re-
spectacle and patriotic State of Georgia,
will render the measure which the Presi-
dent has been constrained to adopt, the
last, as it is the first, exertion of constitu-
tional duty, at once distressing and imperi-
Gus. But, in any event, we rely on the
good sense ofthe nation, to sustain its pub
lie servants in the conscientious execution
of law too plain to be mistaken, and at
a crisis demanding all the moderation
and tlrmness which are conspicuous in
the proceedings of the President.
The Greeks and Georgia.-From the
message communicated to Congress by
the President, it would appear that there
IS yet danger that the infatuation or madness
OF Gov. Troup may compel the General
G Government to use the military arm.-
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