Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-12-19
.tcIDssaDmU SSabta.
Suburban MORNING, DEG. Ie. 1879.

iaFishhg the most tnlsoms and sckenng praise upor
the Presidents NJ SIS ige bat INDUCES in childish
enthsia'n, with regard TO the several reports of the
Secretaries. The report o. the Secretary at War
IS already before readers We shall not stop &c
criticize on the bad grammar of Major Eaton al
though IT is conspicuous throughout his ..maserl,
paper" as tho Enquirer calls it. Such pussa-
ges al the following, frequently occur at !.
with pleasure made known. that the army /,
satisfactorily fulfilling their just engagements e
tie country and that harmony and proper zeal pre-
oiIs" We shall either dwell longer lpon III,
"cS.ra allowances" made TO the Surgeon General
than barely to remark, if the Secretary thinks then
Is palpably wong and illegal he says he does We
wonder mach, how he could : We Continued to sane
con them, until Congress should interfere. We
presume that the same rule would have justified the
payment of tho annuity of the six pcr cent to the
Seneca Indians. We pass to the mot important
part of the Secretarys report, wherein he speaks
the Creeks and Cherulecs and so far as il is con.
sdcrcd as Suggesting and sustaining the President
policy announced on the same subject, it is worth OF
particular consideration. The Secretary snys:
GAS regards the Indian Tribes within our limits
1t is important To than and ourselves, that de
finite place should be adopted, to mutntain them Us
people, with all those principles OF courtesy and
justice, suitable to their condition, and which NAV be
IN our power TO extend Experience yrures int
t07pt'n the States they cannot remnia. Serious dIi
cutes have threatened To arise out Of ths subject
and eater ones may in future be antcipa ed. Tie
States tcH not consen: Jn their limits be occupicG
by Peape possessed ?C vqrage habis, aud tcho ,
10 exercise tic Tigt Of 1ue,1lucnt iagepeidcns Of
any control, but their orcA."
Here is clear intimnton, backed by the President
III is message, that the Indians sAalloi be permitted
TO retain the territorial rights which they now en-
ul,i
them by Georgia liefsalf-5y the Congress of the T.
S-by treaties solemay negotiated with them solnc
by President Jackson himself )-couiirmcd by the
L. s. Senate, and made the suprcm. law Of the
land. When we it thus announced, from higl
authority, that the sucrcd Obligations, imposed
by justice en.. law well us humanity, and honor
may be violated with IMMUNITY, we confess that ",
shudder at the rapid strides which our country ha
taken, in the downward path to pcrdition. Prcsiten
Jackson has but % siguify opinion, no matter
how monstrous, uIust and sangunary, and the whole
tribe of .icophanis, with acclaim, ready &c
shout hosanHa their Chicain. Tie Indian:
enigrate, says the Presidents message, or sub
lut to the laws OF the States, in the limits of which
they are placed. Do our readers know what kind o
laws Georgia has enacted for the Chcrokcos-
whatsoever the general government shall finally de-
their laws shall no longer be regarded? The fol
lowing clause of an act already passed b. that State
shall serve asa specimen.
Csc. 8. That all laws, u5uges, and customs
made, bsh ID, and in force in the said territory
by the said Cherokee Indians, be and the same are
hereby, on and after the first day of June, 1880, de-
clared null and avoid.
SEC. Q. That no Indian, or descendant Of Indian
residing within the Creek Cherokee nations OF
Indians, shall be deemed competent witness or n
party TO any sult in any court created by the COns
luton or laws'of this State, TO which white man
may be party
Under the administration orthis law" says th,
eloquent author of"Wlllian Penn" ga white mar
might rob or murder Cherokee in the presence o
many Indians and descendants of Indians and yet tht
offence could not be proved. That crimes of thi
malignant character would be committed, is By NJ
means improbable: but assaults, abuses, and vcxa
tons, Of far inferior stamp would lender the servi
tudc Of the Chcrokees ntolcrablc TIL, plan o
Georgia is, explained by her Senate, seize five
eXtbs of the territory in question, and Distribute il
among her citizens. fla Cherokee head of fam.
lily chooses 10 remain he may possibly have hs hnus,
Hnd o little farm assigned 10 him. This is the mos
fivorablc sapposton. But his rights not acknow-
lodged lie docs not keep the land because II hs
own but receives IT ms a boon from Georgia. FL
will he surrounded by five white ncigibors. These
settlers will not be from the sober, temperate
hhdnrherIy citizens o georgia. Dut from The Idl"
,hc diss dilute, the quarrelsomc. Many OF them viii
hate Indians. and take every opportunity Of insulting
and abusing them. If the cattle Of Cherokee are
driven away in lis prnscncc It. HE fences ore thrown
down and his crops destroyed; IL his children are
beaten, aud his domestic sanctuary invaded what
ever outrage, aud whatever injury hc may cxpori
cncc, no cannot even seek a legal remedy. H. can
neither be party, nor witness. lie has no friend
who can be heard in his behalf Not an individual
can be found who has any interest in seeing Justice
done him, and who at the same time has nny poyy
er 10 serve him. Evcn the slaves Of his now nsrb-
bors defended by the sclf-intorcst of their mas
tiers. But be ha, not oven This consolation Ile /.
cxposad 20 the greatest evils of slavery, without any
of its alcviaticns. Every body Is let loose upoy
him; and Il Is neither the interest. nor the iuclinn
ton nor the official duty Of the white settlers II
dccnd Inn Every body may destroy his property
bu, no body ~ bound tc keep him from starving
when his property Is gone. How long could Cher.
okcc live under such treatment as this?
AccmaLnmnl from ha birth 10 lanllnna of cntirc