Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1834-01-01

themselves AMI for the great cause of hu
Z, nanity, that tip efforts of the government t
persuade thembeaceably and voluntarily t.
4 remove, are eylry year crowned with NOR
K and more success. Since the last annua
y report from thb Department, the conditions
r arrangemen rade by the Semlnoles for thei
, emigration hal been rendered absolute by
personal inspq ton of the country PROPOSED
for their residhce. They have examined
and are satisfied with it, and if the treaty
should be rNtded by the Senate, they will
soon leave rhS Territory of Florida. Ar
+ arrangemeL les also been made with the
: separate bands il that Territory, by which
s they haze agreed to emigrate, and thus pro-
vision has been made for the removal of the
IwholeIndiaa population from Florida.
! The treaty with the Chickasaws has ter
inflated all difficulties with that tribe 1t is
Understood that the exploring party, provided
TOR in that instrument, are about to commence
their journey with view to selecta residence
West of the Mississippi. If they succeed,
they will remove within the period limited
If they do not, and choose to remain, they
will become, with their own consent, citizens
of Mississippi, and will occupy, as absolute
them. ...
The obligations assumed by the U. States
in the treaty with the Choctaws, for the re-
moval of those Indians, nave been fulfilled.
From the reports which have been made to
the Department, it appears that about fifteen
thousand individuals of this tribe have been
removed. A party, estimated to contain
from fifteen hundred TO three thousand per-
sons, have changed their usual place of resi-
dence in Alabama, and have declined &C
companving the other Indians in their emf
grafton. 1t is believed that this party is com
posed principally Of the worst portion of the
tribe, and that they intend to hang upon the
white settlements, in order to indulge the vi
cious habits they have acquired. As the
Government has scrupulously fulfilled its
engagements with these people, which ter
inmate with this year, and as every exertion
has been made by the proper agents to in
duce them to remove, nothing remains but to
cave them to the results of their own expe-
rience. 1t cannot be long before they will
see the necessity of rejoining the great body
Of the tribe.
Satisfied as You have been, that the very
existence of the Greeks in Alabama, required
their establishment in the country West oil
the Mississippi. where so many of their tribe
already reside, yop have not hesitated to en-
brace every opportunity which offered of ac-
complishing this object. Instructions have
been three times given to ascertain then
views. and to endeavor to persuade them tc
acqeiesce in this course. The two first at
tempts proved unsuccessful. The result o
the last is unknown. Independent of the
general reasons, arising out Of our Indian re
lations, which operated to induce these eff
forts, the peculiar state of things among
these Indians, anda strong desire to remove
the difficulties connected with them, ha,
much influence in directing the negotia
tons.
4 The Sacs and Foxes have quietly reno
we'd to the region assigned to them, and thu
Winnebagoes have left the country upoi
Rock river, agreeably to the siipulations o
the treaty with them, and retired across III
Mississippi, to their lands north of the Ouis
consin.
4 Treaties have been formed with the Potta
watamies, Chippewas, and Ottawas, claim
ling the district on the west side of Lake Nj
chigan, south of Green Bay and north Q
W. i'S SCssioi W thc Chitou h'tdNos
: and with the Pot,awatamies Of the peninsul
of Michigan for the REIMBURSEMENT of thei
. reservation south of Grand river.
With the exception, therefore. of the Mi
5 amies in the State of Indiana, of "a band 4
the Wyandotts at Upper Sandusky in Ohio
and of scattered portions of the O.tawas an
! Chippewas in the peninsula Of Michigan
? north of Grand river. and Of Saginaw bay
, probably not exceeding altogether five thou
| sand individuals, the whole country north c
; the Ohio and east of the Mississippi, inclu
ding the States of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinoi.
: and the Territory of Michigan, as far as tn
Fox and Ouisconsin rivers, has been cleare
1of the embarrassments of Indian relations
and the Indians themselves have either a
f ready emigrated or have stipulated to do ST
: within limited periods, and upon such terms
as will ensure them adequate subsistence
S and the means Of establishing themselve
i, comfortably in their new residence, unles
= indeed the aid and efforts of the goyernmer
e are rendered useless by their habitual ind,
lence and improvidence. The Cherokee
0 occupying portions OF land in Georgia, Al:
J, bama, North Carolina, and Tennessee, an
: probably not exceeding eleven thousand pc
: sons, are the only Indians south of the OH
and east of the Mississippi, with whom a
j arrangement has not been made, either f
emigration, or for change Of political rel;
rl tions Ii is to be repreited that the san