Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1828-07-31

dian boundary Ny father replis that be
was prepared TO 60 as high as $4,000
rather than not etfent the purchase-bnt
SAID he, General jackson | have not
the least idea that we shall find il neces
ssry to give half that sum" After this
conversation profound silence was OBJ
served by General jackson and the
friends VINO accompanied him, on the
subject OF the Treaty in my fathers
presence At length we arrived at the
treaty ground The Indians assembled.
MY father soon observed great inter
course between the Generals friends
and the Indians, of which he spoke ire
quently to me On one occasion, the
General aud part of his suite were alb
sent IRON camp all nigbt-ihe General
withheld the motive Of his nocturnal Wis.
It from his colleague by studied silence
ON the subject did understand by
some means, that the General passed the
night with Colbert, one of The principal
Chiefs. Ny father expressed TO me MS
suspicious that there was something not
right going on" Before any council
had convened, the General informed his
colleague, THAT some Of the princit al
Chiefs we're violently opposed to selling
land aud that those fellows would have
to be bought over" At length a coun.
Gil was called. Among other objections
made by the Indians to the selling OF
their land, it was urged by them that
the United States was largely in arrears
to them, and until old debts we're paid
they would not contract new ones" The
Commissioners found it necessary to
send to Nashville for money to pa, tbos.
claims and thus remove the main diff
Guilty. In about week the messeneer
to Nashville arrives--the money is dis.
irbuted agreeably to the census OF the
nation taken during his absence. Ase
cond council is convened. Gen Jack
son enq 'ires of the Chiefs,
What do you ask US for this lansi"
in'efpeter--'Ws don't know-what
will you givei"
Ge"erai i've VIII give you $4,000"
interpre.er-"We cant iakei."
General j.. we will give you 5000 600"
General eve viii give vou S2,O.vOD"
Unexpectedly. no." $4,000" says tue
General Nv father LETT the table and
the council broke up. TIE General
observed to my father in conversation,
that the Chiefs contended for the priv.
lege of selling a large reservation Of
land to whom they might think NV
fatner objected to this proposition; he
said they might sell TO the King OF Eng
land" The General observed. THAT
there was then company of gentlemen
on the ground that would pay them
down their price $4,000" My father
refused positively to permit the Indians
to sell anc TO private individuals. lie
commended that the Government should
have the option oftaking the reservation
al the piIce stipulated, and the General
and the Chiefs were in the end Obliged
to consent TO il.
My father told the General that he
had made the Indians offers that he
could not sanction. "Why, Governor.
God damn 1t, did not you say that you
would give $500, oo0s" mo sir, gave
you no authority to speak for me, am
here to speak for myself" why Go
vernon, God damn my soul, if you did
not say So" II did not authorize YOU
to make any such proposition" The
parties seemed on the verv point of
coming to blows, when stepped be
tween them, laying hand on each, and
entreated them 10 talk the matter over
more dispsssionately. My father told
me afterwards, that II was well Tor the
old rascal that inter fered, that he should
have knocked him twenty feet Not a
word passed between the commissioners
until the next day, when the General
broke out upon his colleague in a strain,
it possible, more rough and boisterous
than before. | again slept between
them and called on the friends of the
General to interfere Old Major Smith
slept up and observed. "Gentlemen. I
am no dictator, but will be MODERATOR
and we kept them apart Ny father
told the General she should leave him
and 20 home" Go Gcvernor,'' re piled
the General, "by God will make The
treaty without you" While our horses
were saddling, the friends of the Gene.
raj urged me to use my influence with
my father. not 10 60. He at length
greed to remain. Another council was
| called. The Indians demanded the