Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1833-11-13
A PROCLAMATlON.
To The ChiSeas Of the Counties an tie Crech
Nation
BY THE GOVERNOR.

Il
Nation
BY THE GOVERNOR.
The Secretary of War, by direction Of the
President of the United States, has instruc-
ted the Marshal of the Southern distric. of
Alabama. to remove all the white persons
from the territory cedcd by the Creek Indi-
ans, by the treaty of March 1882, which
territory is composed Of the counties of Ben
ton, Taledega, Randolph, Co,sa, Tai apoo-I
sa, Chambers, Russell, Macon and Barbour
These counties have been esfa }lished and
organized by the General Assembly, in con
lormiiy with the views and policy of the
Federal Government, and in pursuance Of
the constitution of this State
The order, if executed, will result in
destruction of property belonging to the in
habltants of these counties, to an almost in
calculablc amount, and innict upon them
other great and irreparable injuries not less
calamtous than those which would mark the
invasion CT public enemy.
by virtue Of this treaty, the Government
of the United States have assumed the right
of removing by an armed force, not only all
persons who have settled upon the public
lands, but those also, who, in the opinion Of
its agents, hive committed trespases upon
the Improvements of the Indians, which are
their private property, thereby undertaking
without any lawful authority, and in viola
ton of our common constitution, to regu
late matters which belong exclusively to the
laws and tribunals of this state
The order for the removal OF the settlers,
must necessarily be attended with the expul-
sion OF our civil officers, the suppression of
our courts, and, in fact, the destruction of
the state government throughout these couB-t
ties
The right of jurisdiction being admitted,
the right to use the means tha. are indispei-i
sable TO its exercise, attaches as necessary
consequence; and yet military force is dis
played upon our borders, 10 render mo opera
1--we all the measures which have been Il
dopted by the state government for the ex
tension and enforcement of its laws
The course which the General Govern
ment has adopted, and is now pursuing, is a
palpabe and indefensibIe invasion OF the
acknowledged rights of this state, aud, in its
tendency, utterly subversive Of our flee and
happy form of government .st
There are now thirty thousand of our
people, alarmed at the horrors of starvation
on one side, and Of military execution on the
other. In this hour of their Affections, re-
commend and exhort them to look with a.
biding and undoub;ing confidence to the ma
jesty of the law
1t will cover them over with shield i'm
penetrable to the sword and the bayonet.
In order, therefore, that ''thc laws may
be faithfully executed" and by virtue Of the
power and authority in me vested, hereby
require all civil officers in the counties aiore
said, to be attentive to the complaints Of the
people, upon whom any crime or crimes may
be committed, or upon whom or whose pros
perty there may exist well founded appre-
tensions, that crimes are intended to be com
milted, by issuing all such warrants aud O.
ther process as may be necessary TO bring
offenders to justice, particularly such as are
guilty of murder, false Imprisonment, house
burning, robbery, forcible entries, and all
such like helnous offences.
And all good citizens are required, when
duly and legally called upon, to aid and as
sist in the execution Of all such process as
may be issued by the competent authorities,
and according to the laws Of the land And
furthermore, it is enjoined upon the citizens
in the counties aforesaid, to yield ready
obedience to any precept or process that may
issue from the courts of the United States or
of this State; and especially to abstain from
all acts of unlawful violence towards the
Indians, who being ignorant of our laws,
and of their rights should be taught to look
up to their more intelligent neighbors for IN
formation and protection. .....-
Given under my hand and the seal
of the State, al Tuscaloosa, this 7ih
| [L.s.l day of Oct in the year of our Lord,
1888, and the 18Th year Of the inde-
pendence of the United States of
America.