Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1829-06-09
RICHMOND, JUNE 8.
THE INDIANS

HE INDIANS.
we lay before our readers TODAY two papers
touching the Indian affairs, which have lust be.n
published in Georgia, 81 seem TO have obtained uni
versa satisfaction in that quarter. We have read
them with great attention. The T'aik of the Pres
dent is one OF the most appropriate s. eloquent that
mas ever been penned. The Secretary of Wars
letter is very clear and forcible composition and
lays down the law, and gives advice to the Indians
with no " iorked tongue" Ii the productions of
the present Cabinet shout correspond 20 the cha.
racter OF these papers, it is no great compliment to
| them TO say, that they will equal those of the ca.
aIition-Ihey will be decidedly superior to them
There Is nothing in the style and common sense
oil the papers OF the last Administration which
can be compared with this Talk and this letter
taking the whole range from the Light House"
Message down to the elaborate Instruction OF the
expiring Panama Mission.
The relations oil the White men to the Indians
are oil an anomalous description TO wrest from
the poor Indians their lands, is thing 10 per.
NIT them to organize an independent government,
with all the machinery OF Constitutions I.eeisla
tive, Executive and Judiciary Departments, and
press, interdicting the running of roads and ca
nails through their SOIL when the interest @, the
State demands II, and concealing giving up the
Inurderers oil the white men at their discretion
Is another thing. The Inconvenience and mis-
chiefs, which are destined to arise from an indie
pendent organization, which forbids the ces
sion OF other lands TO the White men, and reserves
them in the hands Of those who will not avail
| themselves OF the bounties OF nature, have Undue
ed the States OF Georgia and Alabama, not to de-
prIve the Indians OF their lands but to extend their
municipal jurisdiction over them; in other words,
to asser, those rights OF jurisdiction which apper
tain TO every State OF the Union, within its own
borders.-The question before the Creeks and
Cherokees is, therefore, whether they will SUBJ
init TO the laws OF the two laws, retaining their
right of soil, whether they will emigrate to the
West OF the Mississippi is the alternative
which the following papers submit in the frankest
terms to the Indian tribes.-lt is to be hoped that
they will voluntarily go across the Mississippi
Tor, what resting-pla can they hope 10 the soes
oil their feet, IN their present positon--he toe of
the white man continually CALLING their heel.
| we have said that the Southern Journals speak
oil these papers in complimentary strains. The
Savannah Georgian says: :" The Talk is charac.
| teristlc OF the source whence il emanates Mild
yet hrm and to the purpose, it is precisely such as
IS required by the occasion, and calculated to make
the impression desired upon those TO whom il is adj
dressed vi the letter OF the Secry OF War; is sufi
cient to say, that as state paper it deserves high
praise, and that the views taken in it of Indian
| and State Rights, are equally polite and lust"
The Augusta Chronicle observes " There is a
peculiar felicity in the style of President Jack
sons TAX to the Creeks. 1t is plain--sensibe-
unsophistlcated-and approaches nearer TO the en-
ergetic and sententious eloquence of our Abort.
gines, than any thing OF the kind we have ever
read. There is no ultra humanity in it--no delu-
slve promses-no fine spun periods to tickle the
ears oil political rhetorcians-no sacrificing of lust
sentiments at the shrine of brilliant periods 1t
approaches the subject in grave, dignified, and
decisive manner. The right of the red and the
white man are impartially reviewed, as they are
recognised by existing treaties."-The Charleston
Mercury says of the Talk, that il is decidedly
the best thing OF the kind we have ever seen, be-
ing admirably adapted both to the people 10 whom
1t is addressed, and to the end designed Ii is eo.
quent-sensble-per spicuous-and directly to the
point. Equally kind and decisive, il removes the
deiusions of the Indians, points out their true in
teTest, and advises their removal The letter from
| the War Department is 10 the same effect, and en-
forces the views OF the President with much
ability and clearDess. They both alphabetically
support the sovereignty of the States-and whilst
the course of the President in regard to the Indi-
ans will be generally acknowledged to be prudent
and judicious the doctrines maintained in relation
to the States, cannot fail to be satisfactory to the
advocates of State Rights
We hope sincerely, that the CherolSees will lis
ten 10 the voice of the President & remove beyond
the Mississippi. We learn, indeed that some Of the
Cherokees have already made up their minds to 60,
and that the Creeks are preparing TO move in
large body.-The Arkansas Gazette Of the 9th
uit. describes the passengers in the James OLA
ra Just arrived, and among them considerably rs-
ing OF 100 Cherokees principally baf-breeds,)
who are emigrating from the Old Nation, East OF
From the Georgia JOUhal-Ertrd.
MILLEDGEvILLE, May 20.
The IndidnS.-Since the publication of our pa
per of the 18th, the following documents have
been received by the Governor. They are believ-
ed 10 furnish intelligence sufficiently important,
and gratifying TO the public, to warrant the issue
Of an extra sheet.
INDIAN TALK.
From the President Of the United States to the
Creek Indians, thro' Col Cro,UeH.
Friends and Brothers: BY permission Of the
Great Spirit above, and the voice of the DeOpe |
have been made President of the q. s., and now
speak to you as your Father and friend, and re-
quest you to listen. Your warriors have known
me long. You krow | love my white and red
children, and always speak with straight, and
not with iorked tongue; that have always told
you the truth now speak to You, as to my chill
dren, in the language Of truth-Lsten.
Your bad men have made my heart sicken and
bleed, by the murder of one OF my white children
in Georgia. Our peaceful mother earth has been
stained by the blood OF the while man, and calls
Tor TIE punishment of lis Irricfcrs whose sur
render Is now demanded under the solemn obIiga-
ton OF the treaty which your Chiefs and Warriors
in Council have agreed TO. To prevent the spill
ing OF more blood, you must surrender the MUIR
derers, and restore the property they have taken
10 preserve peace, you must comply with your
own treaty
Friends and Brothers, listen: Where you now
are, you and my white children are too near to
each other to live in harmony and peace. Your
game IS destroyed, and many Of your people will
not work and till the earth Beyond the great
River Mississippi, where a part Of your nation has
gone, your Father has provided a country large
enough Tor all Of you, and he advises You 10 re-.
move TO IT, There your white brothers will not
trouble you; they will have no claim to the land,
and you can live upon it, you and all your chill
dreD, as long as the grass grows or the water
runs, in peace aud plenty II will be yours for
ever. For the improvements in the country where