Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1830-01-19

Gil DeSlueS, ii congress mas the cOnStl-
: tutlonal, power to pass such an act, has it
not the power of repeating the act Has
it not also the power Of making a new
State of whites, encircling this Indian
community, and entitled to exercise the
same power over the Indians which the
States of Alabama and Mississippi now
claim the right of exercising over the four
southwestern tribes Will it be said that
the contemplated Indian community will
have been first established, and received
its guaranty, and that therefore Congress
cannot inclose the Indians in new State
Lett aforementioned, that the Creeks and
Cherokees received their guaranty about
thirty years before the State of Alabama
came into existence and yet that State
claims the Indians within its chartered
limits, as being under its proper iusisdic-
ton; and has already begun to enforce
the claim. Let not the Government tri-
file with the word guaranty. IF the Indi-
ans are removed, let it be said, in an open
and manly tone, that they are removed
because we have the power. to remove
them, and there is political reason for
doing it; and that they will be removed
again, whenever the whites demand their
removal, in style sufficiently camorous
and imperious to make trouble for the
Government.
s. The constrained migration off 900
souls, men, women, and children, most of
them in circumstances of deep poverty,
must be attended with much suffering.
9. Indians of different tribes, speaking
different languages, and all in state ofvex-
alton and encouragement, would live on
bad terms with each other, and quarrels
would be inevitable.
10. Another removal will soon be ne
cessary. If the emigrants become poor,
and are transformed into vagabonds, it
will be evidence enough that no benevo-
lent treatment can save them, and it will
be said they may as we'll be driven beyond
the Rocky Mountains at once. If they
live comfortably, it will prove, that five
times as many white people might live
comfortably in their places. Twenty-Five
years hence there will probably be 4,OOO,-
600 of our population West of the Missi-
sIppI, and fifty years hence not less than
l5,OOO,OOO. By that time the pressure
upon the Indians will be much greater
from the boundless prairies, which must ul-
timately be subdued and inhabited, than it
would ever have been from the borders of
the present Cherokee country.
III. Ii existing treaties are not observ-
ed, the Indians can have no confidence
in the United States. They will consid-
er themselves as paupers and mendcants,
reduced to that condition by acts of gross
oppression, and then taken by the Gov
eminent and slowed away in crowded
workhouse.
IL. The moment treaty for removal
is signed by any tribe Of Indians, on the
basis of the contemplated plan, that mo-
ment such tribe is denationaHzed; for the
essence of the plan is, that all the tribes
shall come under one government, which
is to be administered by whites. There
will be no party to complain, even if the
pretended treaty should be totally disre-
garded. A dead and mournful silence
will reign for the Indian communities
will have been blotted out forever. Indi-
viduals will remain to feel that they are
vassas, and to sink unneeded to despond-
ency, despair, and extinction.
But the memory of these transactions
will not be forgotten. A bitter roll will
be unfolded, on which Mourning, Lamcn-
tation, and Woe to the People Of tile Uni
ted States will be seen written in charac-
tiers, which no eye can refuse to see.
Government has now arrived at the Ru-
blcon. If our rulers now stop, they may
save the country from the charge of bad
faith. If they proceed, it will be known
by all men, that in plain case, without
any plausible plea of necessity, and for
very weak and unsatisfactory reasons, the
great and boasting Republick of the Unit
ed States of North America, incurred the
guilt Of violating treaties; and that this
guilt was incurred, when the subject was
fairly before the eyes of the American
community, and had attracted more atten.
ton than any other publck measure since
the close of the last war. :.
In one of the snbimest portions of Dr.
vine Revelation the following words are
written -
Cursed be he, that removeth his neigh
bour's landmark: and all the people shall
say, Amen.
Cursed be he, that maketh the blind to
scander out Of the ,oay and all the peo-
pie shall sag, Amen.
Cursed be he, that perverteth tile judy
ment ofthe stranger, fatherless, and aid
oac: and all the people shall sag. Amen.
| Is it possible that our national rulers
shall be willing to expose themselves and
their country to these curses of Almighty
God Curses uttered to a people, in
circumstances not altogether unlike our
own? Curses reduced to writing by the
inspired lawgiver, for the terror and warn
ing of all nations, and receiving the unit
ed and hearty Amen of all people to
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