Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-05-09
Vol. X...No. So


atoms upon the Cherokees. 1t was be.
lieVed full justice could not be done in a
treaty, Otherwise than by ascertaining the
injuries they had sustained. This reso-
luton looked to treaty with the United
States, so soon as arrangements therefore
could be made. Numbers OF Cherpkees
had been forced from their houses and
farms, particularly by the authorities of
Georgia, and the citizens of the United
States being in possession of the improve
ments, if they were not valued in a short
time, daily undergoing alterations and ad-
ditions, they could not be identified as
Cherokee improvements. These agents
We're required to register all claims for
Improvements and spoilations, in books
to be kept for t nat purpose; end to pro-
Fceed forthwith and to report to the princi-
pal chief, to be submitted to the next gen
eral council of the cation, which was 10
com mence in October following when the
commissioner Of the United States was to
appear for the 7urpose~of making trea
ty. Messrs. J, J. Trott, Robert Rogers,
Elijah Hicks, Walter S. Adair, and Thorn
as +. Taylor were appointed as agents
and in the latter part of July proceeded1o
the duties assigned them. After haviu,r
made some progress Messrs. Trott AID
! Hicks were arrested by a part of the
Georgia guard. The officer command
ing deprived them of all their books and
papers, marched them off sixty miles, IT,
ed with ropes, to Spring Place, the sta
ton Of the guard, and there kept them,
with Messrs. Taylor and Adair who had
also been arrested, in close confinement in
guard house, built to keep Indians in,
for nine or ten days. A writ of Aa5eas
corpus was obtained to bring the prisoners
before Judge but the guard evaded the
service of the writ, by running the pris-
oners from place to place. The prisoners
were finally required by Bishop, the cap.
tain of the guard, to give bonds and S Gu,
rity to the State of Georgia, inthe sum of
one thousand dollars each, to appear at
court, and to desist from valuing Chero-
kee improvements They appeared at
court, but no further steps were taken
against them. Their books and papers
!, have never been returned. This arrest
t was stated to be at the instance of Messrs.
, Schermerhorn and Currey, agents for the
United States, who, it is said, Correspond
, ed with the Governor Of Georgia and the
e Secretary of War on the subject, and that
} part of this correspondence may be Seen
. in the War Department.
d Joseph NJ. Lynch, an officer Of the
r Cherokee nation, for executing the laws
j. of the nation, was arrested BY the Ger
|, gia guard, lodged in Jail, and bail for HI.
{ appearance at a court OF justice refused.
l. His negroes were also seized and Commit
: ted to Jail, and there continued until tn :,
broke Jail and made th~ir escape.
towards sPs 5S HE RCcReTokees, by Benjamin F
! Curry, the agent of the United States lur
} Cherokee emigration, openly alleging i
to be the policy of the United States 10
: make the situation of the Indians SO mis-
! cradle as to drive them into treaty. or
' an abandonment of their country, as mqv
, be seen by his letter to Messrs. BrazIe,,n
= and Kennedy, of l4th OF September 1885,
| A few instances will be given as iIust d
: ton of his mode of operation and gener
: al conduct,
, AltaIah Anosta was prevailed upon TO
, enrol when drunk, contrary to the wish
:: and will cf his wife and children when
: the time arrived for him to leave for Ar
: kansas, he abseonded A guard was sent
d after him by B, T. Currey, which arrest
/. ed the woman and children, and brought
n them to the agency about dark, in a cod
= rain, shlvering and hungry. They were
a detained under guard adj night, and part
r OF the next day, until the woman agreed
l. to enrol her name as an emigrant The
e husband then came in, and he aud his
d wife and their children were put on board
: boat and taken to Arkansas There
:. they soon lost two or three of their chi.
It dren, and then returned on foot to The
Cherokee nation east of the Mississippi.
: Sconatachee, when drunk was enrolled
e by Benjamin F. Currey; when the emf
s grants were collecting, he did not appear,
It and Currey, and John Miller, the iute.,
+ prefer, went after him. Currey drew
= pistol and attempted to drive the Old man
l., to the agency, who presented his gun and
If refused to GO. Currey and Miller return
;. ed, without him. He made the fjcs
:, known to Huge Montgomery, the C'ero-
n kee agent, who gave him certificate hat
n he should not be forced away against lis
e VIII. So the matter rested till the emf
:. grants were collected next year, and thea
d Currey sent wagon and guard for him.
y He was arrested, tied and hauled to the
n agency, leaving some of his children be,
d hind IN the woods, where they had fed
E. on the approached the guard Richard
I Cheek enrolled for emigration, but before
Y the.tlme of departure he hired to work on
e the Tuscumbia railroad, in Alabama,
/, When the emigrants started, Currey had
o1 Cheeks wife lien mt nm hoard boat