Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-12-17
COL. BENToNs HISTORY.
FROM TnE SEW YORK EVENING POST.
DINO lS3G.-1Hdrcp Jacksoa P,esideat.--FGnal
Romordi Of lie Indians.

| FROM Tnr SEW YORK EVENING POST.
A1ino lS3G.--fRiyep Jackson President.---F'n
/ Rcmordi Of lie Indians.
At the commencement Of the annual session Of
| 1867 President jackson had the qualification to
make known to Congress the completion of the long
pursued policy Of owing all the Indians in the
States aud within the organized Territories of the
Union to their new homes west Of the Mississippi.
/ IL was policy commencing with Jefferson, pur-
sued by all succeeding Presidents. and accomplish
ed by jackson. The Creeks aud Cherokees had
withdrawn from Georgia and Alabima; the Chick
asaws and ChOctaws from Mississippi and Alaba-
ma; the Seminoles had stipulated to remove from
FLORIDA; louisiana Arkansas, and Missouri had
all been relieved of their Indian pc pulaions Ken
tucky and Tennessee, by earlier treaties with the
Chlckasaws, had received the same advantage.
This freed the slave States from an obstacle 90
their growth and prosperity. and left them free to
expand and TO cultivate to the full measure Of their
ample boundaries. All the free Atlantic States had
long been relieved from their Indian populations,
and in this respect the Northern and Southern
States were now upon an equality. Tho result has
been proved to be, what it was then believed it
would be- beneficial to both parties, and still more
80 to the Indians than to the whites. With them
it was question Of extinction. the time only tho
dcbatable point. They were daily wasting under
contact with the whites, and had before their eyes
the eyentlul but certain fate Of the hundreds Of
tribes found hy the early coloniss on the Roanoke,
the James River, the Potomac, the Susquehanuah.
the Delaware, the Connecticut, the Mcrrimac, the
hcnncDcc. and the PcnObscOt. The removal saved
the southern tribes from that fate; and in giving
them new and unmolcstcd homes beyond the verge
Ot the white mans settlement, in Il country tenn
pcrntc in climate fertile in soil adapted TO agricul-
ture and 10 pasuraSc, with an outlet for hunting,
Astounding with salt water and salt springs it left
them to work out in peace the problem Of Indian
civilization To all tie relieved States the removal
of the tribes within their borders was great ben
chttO the slave States transcendcnty and inap-
precably great. The largest tribes were within
their limits, and the best of their lands in the hands
OF the Indians, to the extent, in some of the States
rs Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, Of third
or quarter Of their whole area. l have hereto
fore shown, in the of the Creeks and the Cher
okecs in Georgia, that tie ratification of the treat
les for tie extinction Of Indian claims within her
limits, and which removed the tribes which encuni-
borcd her. received the cordial support Of Northern
Senators. and that in fact, without that support
these great objects could not have been accomplish
ed lEaye to say the same If all the other slave
States. They were all relieved in like manner.
Chiclasaws and Chsctaws in Mississippi aud Ala
/ bama; Chickasaw claims in Tennessee and Ken
tucky; Semnoles in Florida; Caddocs and Qua
paws in Louisiana and in Arkansas kickapoos
Dclawalos, Shawnees, Osages, lowas, Piankeshaws
Weas, PeOrias in Missouri all underwent the same
process, and with the same support and result
Northern votes in the Senate, came to the ratihCa-
ton Of every treaty. and to the passage Cf every
necessary appropriation act in the House Of Rol-
rescntatiycs. Northern men may be said 30 have
male the treaties and passed the acts, as without
their aid it could not have been douc, constituting
rs they did large ma jurity in the House, and be
ing equal in the Senate where vote of two-thirds
was wanting. do not 90 over these treaties and
laws one by one to show their passage and by what
votes; | did that in the case Of the Creek treaty
and the Cherokee treaty for the removal Of these
tribes from Georgia, and showed that the North
IN .f.nsa nttI in hp
other, while in both treaties there was Southern
opposition, and in Of them (thc Chcrokcc) both
Mr.. Calhoun and Mr.. Clay in the negative; and
these instances may stand Tor an Illustration Of the
whole And thus the alca Of slave population has
been almost doubled in the slave States by sending
away the Indians to make room for their expansion;
and il is unjust and cruc,--unjust and cruel in
ITSELF independent of the mOtiNc-tO charge these
Northern States with design to abolish slavery in
the South If they had harbolcd such design, il
they had been merely uniriendly to the growth and
; prosperity of these Southern States, there was NJ
easy way to have gratifod their feelings without
committing breach Of the Constitution, an az
gressiOn or encr0achmcnt upon these States they
had only to sit still and vote against the ratification
Of the treaties and the enactment of the laws which
effected this great removal. They did not do So
did not sit still and vote against their Southern
brethren. On the contrary, they stood up and spoke
aloud, and gave to these laws and treaties an effect
i've and Jealous support. And |, who was the Sen
ate's chairman Of tie Committee of Indian Affairs
Mt this time and know how these things were done
| and who was thankful for Northern help ut the
time; J. who knew the truth, and love justice, and
!, cherish tho harmony and union of the American
people feel it to be my duty and my privilege to
note this great act of Justice from the North to the
South, to stand in history perpetual cOntradic
ton Of all imputed design in the free States to
abolish slavery in the slave States. | speak oi
States, not of individuals or societies.
have shown that this policy of the universal re-
muval of the Indians from the east TO the west OF
the Mississippi originated with Mr., jefferson, ami
from the most humane motives, and after having
seen the existence Of more than forty tribes in his
. Nwn State of Virginia, and had been followed ul
under all subsequent Administrations With Gen
eral jackson it was nothing but the continuation
of an established policy, but one in which he heart
iy concurred and of which his local position and
his experience made him one of The safest judges
but, like every other act Of his Administration II
was designed to obloquy and opposition, and to
misrepresentation, which have survived the object
of their creation and gone into history. lie was
charged with injustice to the Indians, IN not pro
tocting them against the laws and jurisdiction OF
: the States; with cruelty in driving them away
from the homes of their fathers with robbery in
taking their lands for palry considerations. Parts
Of tho tribes were excited to resist the execution OF
the treaties, and il became necessary to send
troops and distinguished generals-Scott to tho
Cherokees Jesup to the Creeks-to effect their re
: moyal which. by the mildness and steadiness OF
D those Generals, and according to the humane spir
of their ORDERS was eventually accomplished with
out the application of force. The outcry raised
against General jackson on account of these meas
ures reached the ears of tho French traveller anc
; writer on American democracy, (De Toclueville,