Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1836-09-13


whom he msy be conecrned) 20 cash his premium
notes at Discount. Or the purchaser finding tina,
his no,rs will not be received by the pubic. some
spcculniar may offer 10 take them aud accommodate
hm With land at an advanced price. Or tho land
Officer knosing that the notes are really worth
more than the specie " the purchaser be a friend
or political psrtisan. nsy determine, the order not
withstandlng, 10 receive them, 10 remit them to
tho eastward, have them csshed to credit Ind peck
ct the profit. The measure is hsught with abuses
Of oil kinds. We she'll hear Of the lose on The
road of wagon loads Of specie from TIC land Offices
10 tho cns,ctn banks. never transported aud the
loss will be verified with the forms Of complete
proof.
! Bu, the President and Secretary had no right to
! promu gate any such order. The Ia admits Of
such discrimination. If the resolution ofihe 30th
/ April, lsl6, confines IN operation it gave the
Secretary 40 such discretion as he has exercised.
The resolution required and directed the secretary
| uf the treasury, to adopt such measures he
4 might deem necessary TO cause may
be al. duties taxes, cebts or sums of money accur-
| ing ar becoming payable to the United States, to
be paid in the legal currency of the United States
BY low provided and declared or in notes IF banks
uhich are poyabie GA demand ia The said icgdi cur.
rency Of the u. 5.
Mr. Clay animadyerod upon the conJsc, Of the
prescn, administration towards the Indian tribes
1t had been productive offraud, violence and injus
tice. BY treaties or pretended treaties made Nth
| them, both the T. s. aud the Indians had been
defraudcd out of lands of immense value, under
the forms of reservations which had gone TO en-
rich individual spectators. By our III treatment
of them, they goaded into ncts Of dissipation
and then the sympathes of the white people. are
appealed to on account of Indian dcprcdatioLs.-
The object of this policy IL, 20 remove them from
one side of river where they surrounded by
whites. And before this process ofremoval IS com
plc,ed, whilst it is yet in progress, the states in
whose ncighborhood west of the Mississippi, they
are placed are calling upon the general government
for protection against the danger of Indian hostll-
tics. Already two regiments Of Dragons have
been raised permanently for that purpose, and at
the last session a bill passed The senate to augment
the standing army by an addition of four thousand
men, and the chief argument urged for it, was the
concentration Of the Indians west of the MISSISSIPPI
pi. Thus a permanent charge of grent annual a
mount, is fastened upon the country, to carry ou
It's policy. Taking that in view, the cost Of lndiar
treaties, Of Indian Wars the consequence Of the
policy, and other expenses, NJ c. believed that
the cost of this removing policy would not fall shor
of fifty millions Of dollars before it was finally
eeuted.
lie spoke Of the Cherokee treaty ratified at the
last session Of Congress. No vote of the senate
since he had been member had given him more
pain or excited more sur rise. Gov. Carroll o
Tennessee, and Parson Schemcr horn IA disgrac,
to the pious and honorable profession of which re
4 was a member) has been jointly appointed 10 ,rea
with the Cherokee hatiVH, eon,paseh accordiun Il
a report of the secretary of war, Of about is 00(
e. souls. Coy. Carroll could not attend. and the
d whole business fell into the hands of the Parso
: exclusively. The Cherokees in general coun
Gil in September last, appointed committee t
b treat
With them he did not treat. Instead oftreatinf
them for the purchase Of the Cherokee com
y try, he made proclamation that he would atten
= and treat with him and that all who did not at
s tend should be considered as asserting and boun
& by the treaty which he might conclude. In tn
J. mean time, all practicable means at the comman
IA of the American negotiation, were employed to Goa
e and cocrce the attendance Ct the Indians. On tn
;. day appointed, ont of the Is 600, some five or 81
= hundred. including men women and children, on
j. presented themselves. and many of those torme
| no part of the cherokees east Of the Mississipp
e alone having right to sell the Cherokee country
c With some seventy or eighty lndlans, he patche
= up treaty and sent it to Washington. 1t wa
= submitted by the Presdcn, to The Senate.
= And it had been there many weeks before th
e almost united voice Of the Cherokee people wa
d raised against it. Memorials signed or subscribe
Il with upwards of l6 600 Cherokees were laid be
S fore the Senate, denying the Indian auiborit, upo
u which the treaty was negotiated, and solemny pre-
testing against its obligatory force upon the Cherc
IS kce people. 10 spite Of these memorias-in spit
of oil the opposition which was made by hmse
+ and others TO the ratification of such treaty,
II was ratified against the of fifteen senators tina
IL ofhs colleague aud himself being of the number
o Aud thus the Cherokecs, people who have bee
'- always friendly to the u. S., and who were repre-
scented at Washington by delegates as civilized, a
ordly AMI decent IN Their appearance member
ID of congress stripi of their entire country au
u the people Of the u. :. subjected to the pay
u men of $4,000. 900. 1t was proper and Just
&c mention that one Senator who voted for the riff
cation Of tie treaty land others believed 10 hav
acted under the same impression) declared in III
- place, hat lie did not believe the instrument ",
. treaty; and that be voted for il because lie apprt
% Blended the CheroAoes would be exlerminaled
'H the whites # not removed.
u Mr. Clay said, that he had again warned his cour
ie tryuen Of the dnn0or tllust raed nv all histn,v