Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-09-12

~ ace before; aud zoe Gs1ens o. the United States
are strictly prohibited from attempting 10 hunt on said
ianas; nor eonia any OF our people even enter the
country without a passport.
Inc tehth article, which Is arely mentioned in the
p'eeeuing abstract, provides that Iii any Cherokee
inuiIn' or Indians, or person residing among them,
Or Who shall talerefuge IN their notonshsll steal
Sapital crime on any citizens Inhabitants of the
unhed States, the Cherokee nation shall be bound
10 detteer h6n them To be punished according
The laws OF the United Stutcs."
Thus it appears, that il party Of Chcrokees
should commit murder in the white settlements upon
citizens of the United States the Murdcrers could
not be pursued foot Within the Cherokee bounda-
ry Nay more, If one of our people should com
init murder, or any other capital crime and should
take refuge III the Cherokee Nation, he could not be
Pursucd' however fragrant the case might be, and
however well known the criminal. The Chcrokccs
must orrest him in their own way and by their ow,,
authorlty and they bound by this treaty to do
IWhat by the laws OF nations they would not have
been bound to do that is TO deliver IN criminals for
punishment. Neither the United States, nor any
particular Stasc, had any jurisdiction over the Cher
oise country. But the next article, which nv ar
sument makes It necessary To quote at large is, il
possible, still more decisive of the matte.
"AKr H. II any citizen nhabtaut of the United sa,es
or OF eher OF the territorial! districts the United States shall
60 mo any town. or territory belonging the Chcrokees
sou or property of any eaeeabe and friendly Indian Indians
eoaagsa saa tie jurisdiction Of any &re OF
citizen white nhabtant thereof punishable by
the laws or district, such offender or ofrnc
bc subject TO the punishment, shall he proceeded
against M the same manner as il the offence had
teu 'thn fhe jurisdiction Of me State District which
or uev may belong, against citizen white inhabitant
thereof" ~ '
| fthere is any meaning in language it is here ir-
reslstby implied that the Cherokee country or ter
ritory Is not within the jurisdiction OF any State
or within the jurisdiction OF either of the territorial
Districts oil the United States" Within what iurls-
diciion Is IT. them Doubtless within Cherokee ju
4 rtST DIR tNta.t ,,rt
'ng 10 he Chero6ees of the most forcble lido.
matte expressions of language TO designate alb
soute property. What then becomes of the assuup-
non OF jurisdiction over the Cherokees by the State
OF Georgia This question Will be easily decided by
the man WHO can tel which the strongest tren-
ty OF the United States act Of the Lenslsture
of state. The treaty SAYS, that the Cherokee
territory is inviolable and that even white rena1.
does cannot DE pursued thither. a recent Law of
Georgia declares the greater part of the, Cherokee
country To be under the jurisdiction of that State. and
that the laws OF Georgia shall take full effect upon
the Cherotees within less than year from the pre-
sent tune. The Constitution of the United States
Art W. las these words: ''All treaties made un :
der the authority of the United States shall be the
s.Prens M,o 9 the haatf; and the judges in every
state shall be bound thereby, any thing in the laws or
Constitution of any State to he contrary natnithstt
silly settled.
Eut the full acknowledgment or,be n.,;ona, RIGHTS
OF the Cherokces and of the saeredness of their ter
rtory, Is not Ill that the treaty contains. The four
tcehth article was framed expressly for the purpose
OF preseong and perpeuating the national existence
OF the Chcrokees That they might ''6eed TO a great
err degree Of ciciii=1tion appears have been IA
vourlte design of the American Government With
view to tins object ami that they might "become
ers'en dii cuiticators, the United States proffer
ed some important advantages; and il is y the aid
Of these very advantages aud by the cooperation of
faithful teachers and missionaries that the Cbero-
Sees have been led to a greater degree of civilization
than any other tribe Of Indians. So uudenablc is
this fact that Georgia has repeatedly complained of
~ and the Government has been blamed for doing
those things which the United States were bound 10
do by the most solemn treaty stipuations
In word, the ireuiyofl Ioston is plain document
having direct object. 1t is consistent with itself Il
does not contain the most distant implication, that
any portion of the human race, except the Cherokees
themselves, had even the shadow of CHIN upon
The Cherokee territory. IL guarantees that territory
to It's possessors as their own absolute property
accepts some SINAI! grants from them; and enga pes
that the United States shall befrend them in their
future efforts for improvement That the Cherokees
nave never forfeited the benef, of these stipuations
VIII appear in subsequent numbers.
WILLIAM PENN.