The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-05-20

They er not permitted 10 stand ia the attitude u friends
Of the country defenders of the country but for the
purposes of treaty they made 10 hostile at
ude 10 the country and placed in the singular pre-
dIcament OF people captivating 20 the government That
this may understood viii refer 70 the history Of the
matter as given in the commencement Of the memorial
presented showing the foundation Of the claim:
Before any white settled in Georgia nearly the whole
country afterwards erected into the great States Of Georgia
commonly called the Greek nation.
This nation was always composed Of two parts called at
The lower Greeks inhabited the country the Chatta
hoochee river, and the original Museogees, always
friendly with the whites Their principal towns were Coweta
and Cusseah They alone owned the national lands and had
a right TO dispose OF them.
Then there reference the documentary evidence to
show this faet
The upper Creeks were composed of several tbescon
quered aioaby receivedby the Muscogees They lived
on the coosa ralapoosa and Alabama rivers where the
under French influence and then under Spanish
lection and many of them were always hostile to the United
The lower Creeks made several treaties with Georgia
ceding lands among Others those Galphinon 0cto
ber is5 and Of shoulderbone November 1855 Others
made with the United States at New York in Au-
gust $780, at Coerane in June 1906 and Others in 1902
| Now comes important point which ask the Senate
| TO bear in mind:
| ton all their lands not then eeded."
| Here them were laid down their rights Their country
Defined and the government of the United States
that period soemnly guaranteed their rights to this section
OF country Then in the Investigation has been found
by the committee that from 1880 they stood in the position
Of and occupants of the country which after
wards taken from them by the eaptulaon of 1919 that
OF Fort Jackson. There dispute in regard
4 10 their ownership of il
Tn $500. ar ROO .a,..a,, ,.,;., -, c.o.
Inc treaty OF i'so sofenny gsa'aea 10 the Greek ma
ton all their lands not then coded This done by
| vice of the Senate.
Cup the Greek Of 1918, the nation owned all the
country betw the rivers Ocmulgee and Aamaha the
and the Tombgbee river and the Choctaw and Chcka
saw on te west ana between he de-
the Cherokee country and Tennessee river on the north
i MI: -, - !, ,,
This then was the country soemny guaranteed to them
ny tne treaty OF l'So'
warriors principally of the upper towns led away by the
and arts o. and BY the lying predc
rndctx 90 and sang;narS ,yar aranlt tka In;,ad $50
and the friendly portion Of their own nation The war was
waged bv them equally against both While they attacked
the white settlements and there burned devasated and
murdered they also destroyed the property Of the friendly
Creeks at the liabee towns burned hages and shot its
burned 70 ashes and threatened Coweta and
took ~ ,ook x, a ana husse.a.
epai chiels OF ne upper towns me hosnies came wholly
rom tbe upper towns vi TINS the volume OF the American
dence;
Tower Iieeks were settled people desrous OF Nv
us VIII ue Mtls anu Wholly opposeG 10 war.
and punished those who robbed and murdered the
whites, putting many of them death.
Though their annuities unpaid for 1872 1873 and
1914 the lower Creeks remained friendly applied to their
agent Co,onei Tor assistance collected for the pur-
dred men and aaek the bostes send stron s,rca 70
Tookebatcha aid friendly upper chiefs and remove
them IN Coweta called for assistance 4, nen and an,;
ten concentrated AT Coweta extended strong atro mn ha
Chattahoochee raged az far as Taapooa and ent ont
war parties keeping the hos from attacking the eorg,
frontier
advert to this for the purpose Of showing next while
this was their position this was their attitude how II Is
that the Committee on Indian Affairs have deemed thas,
10 have been most unjusty dealt BY and now
most unequiyoca grounds in equity and Justice Far he
claim they set mp
In response 10 their repea,ed and urgont solicitation ca
ammunition they in receiving AT one time
elecen rifles sety pounds of powder and some lead and
ns charged against their annuities and
another, eight muskets hundred pounds OF powder
anu o"' "'''i ~ anu ''A'' po'i'' u 'ea'
As read this do not read the references TO the doc-
menary evidence which support the points made in the
memorial but, before stated, having examined
them, prepared TO say that in every particular
the history and evidence in the matter fully sustain the
aiegauohs
:" In October, 1873 they thousand strong nj
Coweta and make peace with the hostes IN
and Taadega four hundred Of them fought under
Floyd and killed and wounded Tho
fought under General jackson Emuckfau hundred Of
them took part in the battle of Caabee and large body
fought in the decisive battle OF the Horseshoe orded the
Red St;cls from hebnd while Genera mo aacked me
breastwork in 'front.' ~
r,.. 49, = - a. a..
ms -, y, 10y. e as has'ory OF tne aialr
pioseS was euo au'e Nssueu ahu maintained oy these
snlon ioM ,'e sio'"u anu ounuaoh OF their claim as
NJ" p'eson
On The 10th OF April 1874 Gen. Thomas Pinckney ar
Vea fort ano oeng the senior officer OF the