True Democrat. (Paulding, Miss.) 1845-18??, 1845-10-29
IG, MISS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 99. ls4s.


officers. Bnt.abont forty-nine of these
claims, embracing some sixty sections OF
land, made their appearance at the land
sales. They were rejected at Pontotoc,
and the question of their confirmation Is
now pending in the War department.
These claims cover sixty-two quarter
sections of land already sold to individual
citizens Of Mississippi; for which they have
paid about $l2,400 90, and if they are
confirmed they deprive these citizens of
the use Of the lands they have bought and
paid their money for, or there will be with
drawn from the Chickasaw national fund
the sum of about $l2,400 90, and up
wards of thirty thousand acres of land TO
be appropriated to individual purposes. |
feel well assured that the commissioners
Of the ChickaSaw nation could not have
contemplated in any action they may have
had upon these claims, that any portion of
the national fund actually in the treasury
ofthe United States, would be Withdrawn
and applied TO individual purposes.
| therefore feel constrained under the
obligations | am under TO the nation, 10
guard and protect its interests, to resist the
confirmation of these claims, and invoke
your aid inasmuch as a portion Of your
constituents in common with the Chicka-
saw nation will be injured by their conGr-
nation.
With great respect, am
Your obi serv't
WIN. NJ. GWIN.
Upon this Mr. T. based the following
argument or protest, which was signed by
ali the Mississippi delegation. Gle bid
been to New York and received the dog
headed cane ten days before this time and
before he had any intimaton that these
claims were about TO be confrmed.)
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,,
Jauury 6, lS45
Sir: Enclosed we send you the letter Of
a gentleman, who has accepted the APP
pointment of agent for the Chickasaw ma
lion, to guard their interests at Washington
and protect their rights This letter de-
serves, and we hope will receive, the care
FIJI consideration ofyomr department.
From the facts detailed, two questions
arise, and in the decision of the pending
cases, we want them both settled, so that
the community at large, may understand
the nature of the Ch,ckasaw business.
1st Will your department, after the lapse
ofnearly eleven years since the ratification
of the treaty with the ChickaSawS, aud af-
ter Indians who were entitled 10 reserva-
tons. have been hunted up, and all that
could be found enrolled; their Claims al.
lowed their deeds of transfer confirmed,
and six or seven hundred claims brought
forV ard after these Indians were enrolled,
and which proved the subject matter Of
before the War Department,
for three or four years, were finally reject
ed Will your department, we say allow
any and all future claims, without further
recommendations or proof in their behalf,
than that the chiefs, in letter evidently
not written by themselves, land there is no
proofthat il was ever correctly translated
to them,) recommend them for approval.
We are not in favor Of a monopoly in this
Indian business, and the rules which the
Department shall prescribe to itself, ought
to be known.
Seconds anIndian who does not show
that he was Incorporated with, and formed
a part Of the ChickaSaw nation, in the year
1884, entitled to land by virtue oflhe pro.
visions Of the ChickaSaw treaty. II is i'm
Dortant for the Department TO settle this
in as much as the Choctaws and
were neighboring tribes, close |
" allied by the ties of relationship depen- |
ling both upon blood and marriage and /
before the year 1884, the Chociaw tribe re-
moved from Mississippi to their western
homes, and with them must have emigra-
ed large number who more properly be-
onged TO the Chckasaw tribe Of Indians.
These points are suggested, and not ar
rued at length. because when the large
latch ofcIaims heretofore rejected was peu-
ling before your predecessors, they were
ully discussed.
The whole delegation earnestly protest
against the confirmation Of these claims as
low located, because they cover sixty-two
quarter sections Of land which this govern
nont has already sold 10 our constituents,
md on which no doubt they have their
houses and improvements. lfthese dila-
ory Indians who have 50 long slept upon
heir rights must have land, LEI them take
i where il is unoccupied.
Hoping this matter may be so decided l
IS u subserve the ends Of justice and con-
iuce 10 the quiet Of the country.
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