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roAVJvv.i TAJ)? 5 ur aiuTHAa
novtc .iriWh.ioty i;tvi n.pi 5 cfo.tn.i
imw seneta, aAxmm&x wjxsr aa, 2.33©.
jri *.c«r ams x&xss* * r_-. •
-* «*• •• ; .• - - tj -• *ra.v - •* s\ -r, <
j eel, i had frequent conversations with
them on the subject of (he linn.—
They all agreed in their statements
lu me at tiial day, which was us fol
lows, that they the Cherokees and
the Chiels of the Creek nation had a-
gr-iiul—that the line should begin at ; lie mrived at Pathkillei
Ihe High Shoals of Appalachy and to ' boy 'Venn, t’no i'nthk
run w ith t!ie old Hightower Hail by : Black'iiui n that there
the Slone Mountain and to the shnl- camp if Creek Indians
loiv lord on GliaUahon, hy, and then to ! Ten Ehuds
make an offset and run the line
vi ards the Coosa liver, so as to
elude all tire* Cherokee setth-m
*d in terms so explicit and so
1 bio of
on the Cherokee lands: at that time,
(he C .crokees were living- at Stiwaii-
ev old town, at the Standing Peach
tree* on Chattuhoochy, on Sweet wa
ter creek which'runs into the latter
river near the Buzzard roost, as low
down as the S ilt In k, which is with-
in four oi five miles of its month — they
were also settled on all the creeks
which run into the Hightower on ihe
south side. 1 never knew but one
tctz TF.jtfor’ i)0.i/5>c®r‘(«)-i. ! noted trail called the Hightower (rail
Tt~z vu a TcBO-a rii no.r/SiBi'-riv.i, kt j and that is the one I have mentioned
and belief, Thomas Petit further
slates that he is familiar with
st
Mini
lib
river with a boat of u hiskey—u hen Irate, Cabinet,’ and .Senate,
"s near Tur-
illor informed to (he present time. Tliose
was a large we most venerate among the
lying at the
d In: tln.ug *t if he
to-j wen! t!n<e they would take his whis
ht- 1 key from him. On hearirg this news
nl3 liliif klnirn ilelermim d he would not
go down tii.> river any further and got
ipa- ol ull ihoir righi ( j territory ana Gta-
><ues mat lie is laminar with the | bio oi m.smterprolation as those emment us heretofore r f
lory of the Indians taking Black- which have been entered into w ith' joyed, I, a ll mtc ,- u L * ‘.N ^
.Urn s whiskey, which is as follows: the Cherokees. Those treaties have i/oachmeuls.” Hceiiic.sa, eT
>.*ckbnrn was descending the Coosa been rotilied Ly every Chief Mimis- „lieit leiusal r»n n,, , . m <
"■« """ • «*»• f .«**-*»• "».c, c^i.M ,™i £?
administration ol General Washington ! ileges they have lie.ctoiorc enjoyed 1
hat is lins but abandoning tijem to
and honor
cn their
I. mom.
sole inn
w hoin
dead,
the living, have giv-
t lie
’aliikillor to stoi
D
(j*0.] J' • I I**.T. D'v.lrSj vt tv. A 1 !
crossing at the Slu
low
foil
on
Do.i.SAi'w.i, o-y.XT n.jU 3 O’OJC.i j ChaMahom liv and inns from flier** to
uMvyz o s <Mt .iiiCDiuioiy, Wf.v »s-uji|](> liiglilower old lown on the Higli-
(VOIll.I
J.o l. KT.aZ
wau jM>.i»5oi!*■£*•. i.
■e up lus \\his-
key w'hli li was put into one of bis 1
houses and locked up and he, Iflaek-
burn, went homo—after lie w as gone
ihe Creeks l e i'i of ilie w hiskey and
<‘ame and doirnnuh-d h of Pathkillei*
and Ilirealem d lo break dow n ike
door ii be would not open ii for them
---he was compelled lo give Ids key
nml lhey look the whiskey and put il
in (he boat and carried it off diwn
ibe liver---there w as said to be up-!
wauls of one hundred Cieek Indians'
that came and took the whiskey. I
the* tender mercies ol Georgia?
h hat but annulling the spii it, il °iiot
the exact words, ol the Treaties to
which our goverrment has made it-
self a parly? Ulial bat ecixipellmg
. . ili('rn in lucf, whatever may be the
then w, aie irsprnsil»lo for the fu!- form, to seek a ivlii^c from ilscrir lor-
lilmont. of I hose treaties. And yet. J mentors in (lie wilderness of the
notwithstanding- these obligations, and j West? The .Senate well knows that
in t!ie face of all I hr* remonstrances (hey cannot live
treaties; and if it
nation to be boi ml
ered in ulighied I
sanction to those
lie possible for a
by all (hut is sn-
.iih and verncilv. 1
a:.d su!
1 i’CCS.
the
S note
; far as
ielates lo
si op
that
will,
unless
: ill Ihe
exlicine.
ihtlatc-
Ihe
polish
hal ex-
: 2.3, (1,
1889. abo
le Cln
T0k('<
1‘liis is
sw oi p
, “all law
l!Cll(:l ^
tl.n.t
calls 1
or tin* !
ittic! re
gulnticus,
uneiafi
on s o!
' every
' honest
made,
passed,
:* I.cai t
. T
bis tii. 1
. ion. if.
Clir*rol
'.<•(’ Illdi; •
;x 5 , 'rev/ tejjoit 3 no - 1 tov
dji;
o ot y *V f 0- Z * I Ij
CilEItOKEE
ver river.
THOMAS CAUDRAY.
Witness
ROli'T I). HARRIS.
'i'his has been the
circ unibL.iKo as 1 !,
it.
lih.U:
nee ol the
a vs he a id
AGENTS POT THE
PHQvNlX.
owing persons are aulliovizeil to
pay rnants for tiie
15.
The
receive subscript ions
Cherokee l’limnix.
Messrs. Punier. St Wii.t.iams,
Alarkct St. Boston, Mas'.
(5 hough M. TaACY, A goat of the A.
C. F. M. N -w V or::.
Itov. A. D. Edoy, Ctanandaiirua, N. Y.
TltClMAS llASl Uin-j, Uli. x, N. v.
Voi.i.aiio tt CoNv/nsE, Bwlimonc!, Va.
llev. jA'-ini C iMPiim.i , 15 aulmt, S. C.
WinniAM Id j v Lx' ;.* i u it::ii), Ciia
s. c.
Col. Groan': S w»t:i, Statesville, W.
.J .im- . ' i > i j \ f - • ji| j ^ j | •»}■.*.•»
ill V . CyUI'S kl.XCSBORY,*Mt
taw Nation.
Itonr.t tsok, Augusta,
Cant. Wiu.Iam
Georgia.
Got. James Tuar
IKissinwaw 3rftr.**-...-«<
DO!
B-'llcfoulc, Ala.
;UMENTS
Mating to i.U boundary tine between the
Cherokees and Urea.a.
[CuiiUnuci!.]
Head of Coosa, loth Dee. 18.9.
T’hoinas Caudray a white mail rnar-
Cnr’.noKEE Nation, Two Runs Vil-
1.A3E, Nth Decern' er, 1829.
Thomas Petit, miv< d blood Chero
kee and white, 1 kinks'ho is about til
No. 20 years of age, w as horn and raised on
tire bead waters of C’hattnlmoi hy uu
til he was thirteen or fourteen years
old, towards the close ol the Revolu
tionary war. General Pn kens w ith
an army burnt me iu,-. . r oi,..,.. ....a
Soria lwo villages on flit* Chnllahoo
* slon » Jeliy—he was taken prisoner w ith his
mother and many oihers. lint the Gen-
\ j,, | oral left mv mol her and myself m the
iiew, Choc-: nat uni vvne’n m* term im a. unhv pii»-
one ! s away witii him Shortly alter
that my mother left that part of
(he eouutiy and moved down the
Hightower l iver and settled the place
called the Red Bank. We were n-
nmng the tirs! settlers of that town.
\fter living there seme years when I
was nearly grown my mother moved
about twenty miles to the Pino Log
village,.where, 1 have lived and hi the
neighborhood of the same plaee ever
since. A great many yeais ago there
THOMAS PETIT
eriheil before me . (j, e j,*
Sworn to and subs
the date above,
WALTER ADAIR,
Circuit Judge.,
Old I Iioiitoiveit Town, )
1.8til Lee. 1829. \
W'olleii Earn, a lull blood Chero
kee, aged about GU years, when young
be lived ul Tugulo old town mi ’ib ga
le river; a,„i t| 1( . f !me „f_ib„ v.„.
oliiliumiry War <in. while people
drove them off and about il.irly lami-
lies of the Cherokees moved down ihe
t:i—t■ «',„„,.i.,, >...,i si'iilt d at the New
l ei k tow ns uu that river, wlmli arc
about I'oriy or lifly miles below li e
Buzzard roost—the plaee led been
occupied before they went there l;v
the Creek Indians, but they bad
moved away—the Cherokees remain
ed there about one year, and there
being no Cherokees there but the
elan oi party that went there togelli
es. they broke up and moved over and
settled at the liighlon er tow n, where
lie has lived ever since. He fonner-
tkal have accumulated on their takics. Georgia.—the
ftom a thou
low o la!.m
istenee of tl
an act of tie
indignant tier
and lionorab!
true to iiself, anil ihe naked < Rims of. this
justice, will pour ils unmingled and
unmensun d akhormue upon this un-
provoked destruction of our national
faith.
It is now out of the power of tlie
Senate to repi ir the deep injiuy
which they have inflicted upon the
honor of this country; it is beyond
of
so
oppi essn e
J'ririlci.
under the laws
operation of which
lhem, is
I iie Act cl January
iiisltes, with one lei)
s, ordinances, orders
late ver,
led, by ihe
in ietuin lor
hat. no u In-
of any kind w
or on a
s;” and
enacts,
read
to
"■uni oi t,r s. umlaut ol any ^ -mu, re-
, shling wilhiu Ihe Creek or Cherokee
i f,! aI ioii3 of Indians, shall he a compe*
\ u ' u{ "iBiess in any Court of that
; lo which a white person ir.nv
| he a p:uty, except such while ijeiT
cwi.s residing w-ithin the said nation.”
. . Senaie knows that the-Choc-
wipe HI' the stigma Haws in MissEijtpi have already de-
whic’h tl:«*y have east upon our char- lermijiad
nefer for common honesty. But j prefer a
w hal have they done for ihe Chero-
; I.ecs iu eonsideralii.n of bavin
| cd their express engagements:
have thn atoned them with an
jdinte destruction of their just
; if they reinai:: where they a
i iu
; the mil:.!,;!oii
i Strti s, tliey w ill
• lien. Treat with
in the very same
: ii
violatr
'I'lny
imme-
liihis.
e; hut
se. they see ft to remove beyond
! ' parts of the Cniied
treat with them
them then! Yes,
breath in wlii.li
not ver-
ried to a Cherokee wife, says he was I was a treaty held at Fort Wilkinson ly understood they e la Lord the euim-
the State ot Georgia, and | between the whites and Creeks, and . try down the waters ol Chatlchoo' hy
removed
born in
when very small his lather
to East Florida, and aftcrwaids to
Pensacola, where he was raised until
about twenty two years old; bis lather
kept a public house in Pensacola, and
an Indian trader by the name of James
Dc-riso was in tiie tmbit ol putting tip
and boarding at ins talber s when in
Pensacola selling bis peltries and lay
ing in his goods—lie tiie said Dei iso
was then said to bo lb mg at th'-.
z tied Roost on Chattahoucliy nied
*| ! ’ •r' . Ihev . w ill !
lor in the treaties which they have ;I-
ready made, they ofl'or them, urio.i
emidiiioiis degrading even !o savages,
mere treaties! 'I here is a presumj)-
liou and impudence in the; new prof-j tin
for. quite as intolerable ::s the !Yi,h-jbv
less ennduet which preceded il. I\o|,y:
person of common sense w ill lis'en to
the dei lnrations of ilia I man who vio
lates ore..promise, (hat he may l ave
an opportunity of making another,
more in accordance with !:is interests.
Anil tin* .Senate have it not in theii
remove, heenuse they
. . 'image, they scarcely
; .mow where, to an abolition of nfl
; liieir internal ‘wights, privileges, im-
j munities and franchises.” as herein-
j fore enjoyed, and subject ion lo ihe
! lairs ami supervision of (he State.—
I ibis, however, nr must be allowed
to suppose, is pieeisclv the end which
| ike .actinic seeks: and as tlien body
: .ins ifciused to, protect (lie Italians in
i tiieir Hacwed rights, wo hold them,
iaud we believe Heaven holds them.
; .‘.p 1 •<*;■s-’i;y lo Ik.n-imr nf (Ids mini
J Jew. Com.
,l loti. — IN .
•A,
Nwv icq- Adr-n-c*,.
r I he Senate oftl.e U. S have passed
bill for the renievn!<■! the
a vote 27 to 20—YYe
s and in*.vs hvlow. w is!
ee
his
ed.
years of age,
the bend Chiefs of our nation were a- to a place called tin: mineral Springs P"'-ver. afler what has passed, to se-
I'raid the Creeks would sell some of some distance below the Buzzard ';me Ihe eonmlen. e ol the ( hi-roki-es.
our lands and sent old Sour mush, old roost, and Irom there to the ten 1 s I - ^ * 1 ‘ -p fl * J l! ' u 11 c* i • t i e s loi-
Ciiulio, Old Turkey and Eutalitln lo , and on the Coosa river:—that after ' but unless they can exinmge
attend the treaty and try to make a Gene al M’lnlosh in».rritd a Chen kee
line with the Creeks; and they sent wife he asked liberty of (he Chero-! ‘J 1
old Sega wee wi'h them to interpret i fees to settle on limit * ml eu Chn'.la-
between the Cherokees and Creeks, I houehy the same place where he was
and they sent l)i k Rowe to interpret • al'lerwards killed by bis own nation,
between the Cherokees and the j Vfalien Eat a always though! the
-| whites. General Pickens and Col. j Cherokees owned the land lower
s ' IIjwkins were Commission-is w ho | down to the south, than the line Irom
Alter they came . Buzz aid roost to Hill's creek, hut
tv, old Sour mu.di j that was the only line ever run bo-
Ipat they had ag:'(*<*il upon a tween the two nations.
Intel preted bv
JOHN WHIG lit.
Wit ness
ROUT. D. HARRIS.
said to he inhabited by L reek ti.cli.ms I held the tieaiy.
the singularity of the uami' Ru z/,»i d , back from the tie
Roost raised my curiosity to inquire I told n , ,
•where it was and who livvd tne;e,jime wi'h the ( reels,^ d 'l a.I Inst
which led to the information in.miMt-, li'cy diU'ered a little: the l ik.io ccs
When I was about iwco'.y i wo j propos.-.d to male the old Cherokee
1 left my parems a.ul | Ckirner ilio h(-gi::ning corner ol theii
yame into the nation, and have imen
here ever since. 1 am sixty six
years of age, and have li.cd in too
llherokeo nation about loity lour
gears', and I liave frequenlly been at
Ihe Buzzard Roost on Cliuttuhooviiy
jvbieh is the only place by that name
jever knew: it has been lifly years
hr upwards since Duriso first traded
from Buzzard roost to Pensacola.
At a treaty held many years since in the
State of Georgia between the United
States and Creek Indians, wheie Gen
eral Pickens, General Wilkinson, and
Col. Hawkins were Commissioners,
the Cherokees sent a delegation ol
chfefu to attend the treaty and try to
fix the boundary lino between the two
nations rr ore distinct than il previously
had been known; 1 recollect that Sour
Mush, Chulio, & Dick Rowe were a
part of the delegation that attended
ihe treaty, and after tljepi had return*
from the breast of the Cl ei
mmy.lliev will never ie-.:!iin his eon- i
!-'m-e. But this less of eharaeter for I
faith and honesij, is l!u* mildest fe.i-
tiii'p in |lie retribuliqu that awaits us.
We may forfeit with unconcern the
1 resiled of a community, or nation,
i and smile over the ill :otten gains o;
lour pe.Tuly; hut llicn: is a wimess a-
hnve, whose rye never slumhei s, and
from whose hand (lie guilty cannot es-
cnjie. Soon or late, the oppressor
THE SENATE.
The decision of this body
lion to tiie Treaties e
the United States aiu
Indians, will not escape lb;
reprobation cf the public,
thin will not submit in silt
decision by which ils fV.i'.h ;
arc lo be wrecked—it will
e bi
ll If I1.S,
j'ilb!:r!l | j n
ing pa 11 it ii-
1> t () 1 -in 1 'I the uH'-nt.iou of every
reader to th- se ranged C n tkc sides of
inis question. Ike rni 1 1 ir-rns in
which the eommitlee on fi di ; .„ Affairs
11iough 1 11 p ri'oenl. indei-(i ar.--1 sa rv,
Iw c< ii h llieir meaning, will not blind
the eyes of the eonntiy. any n . k- ihen
if hi IM-se oft be Senators ’ 1 he ii 'cn-
lion is but too wel understood: line
is (he same pea ranee ol detei m,ned
injustu'e an<l bppn-giion, wi'i the
s.fiie prolessini.s of Iiumanily, which
| have marked ll.e plan in ils progress.
; No one can douht that if (bis pi eject
j be finally carried info efTecf. w e s'lmll
| acquire the eharaeter of hvpot*riles,
as well as that ol oppressors of (he
; fee tile ami iuoih-nsive. The few indi-
viduals who viill bo regarded as hav
ing held the vote in (heir own hands,
j uad tuaied the scale on the w rong side,
will not, we trust, soon he forgotten.
will lie lower than Ibe helpless being | Ii any evidence could ho needed, fo
upon whom he tram; led. (prove the true design of ihe bill, in
niucrican Spectator. i placing the Indians out of the reach of
I protection, and without seeurilv.it
Countiy, hut the Cricks relus-
ed to go so far back hut propos
ed to let the Cherokees begin at the
High !t'1k'I’.!h of Apnlachy which tie
Cherokees agreed lo. They agreed
ihe line should run from there to the
Ten Islands on the Coosa river, so as
to leave the Stone Mountain on the
Cherokee- lands. I have always under
stood among the Cherokees that they
owned the country on both sides of j its arms and slumber or smile over
111 * Coosa liver as low as the Ten j an act that must innilably cover it
islands. I was one of the commis- j with shame. The Senate have rc-
sioners for the Cherokee Nation w ho j fused to recognize the binding force
marked the line between the tw o na- j of our treaties with the Cherokees;
lions iii 1822, which had been agreed j they have denied the obligatory char-
on in 1821. This is the only line I , actor of these solemn compacts; they
ever heard of between the two nations | have tieated with levity and contempt
the probity and Mr. r relmghuyscn, wlmli provides j Jersey one, and New I lainprliiif one.
fiuh'an Lilt Pascal.—It will be. would he abundantly furnished hy lluj
seen from the loiter of our YvTsliing-1 fact that the amendments were only
isting between ,011 correspondent, that the bill in the ( designed to give that seourify. which
the Cherokee Senate which contenijdales the re-, the li*amci's\-1 the hill appear to have
deserved j n,fn ’M of the Indians residing in any of' thought ii Lest only to pretend to
This na- { * :e Stales and Territories, to the! promise.
ice to a ! ' vp slern wilderness, has passed to he! We add an extract nf a letter,
ml honor j engrossed. This hill is most artfully j dated Washington, April 26th.
net fold J coni rived,—avoiding all appearance.
of eompu!
regard for
■I enclose vmi (he r i!
in concerning
ion, and expressing much; the Indians, w'illi Mr. Frelinglmvsen's
the welfare of the Indians J nnui.dn
which said line runs from Buzzard those bonds which
Roost on the Chattuhoochy to the
mouth of Will's Creek on the Coosa
river.
u i Hare ol Inc Indians, amendment, and the ayes and nays on
— while in reality il is only intended the first proviso. You will pereieve
to aid the cruel persecutions which that of the votes north of Mason and
have been’instituted against t!*em in : Dixon's line against these “poor de-
Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.— jvils,’ (as Mr. Forsyth repeatedly eall-
This is sufficiently evident from Ihe cd them, in debating the question,)
jec-Mcn of the amendment offered hy (hero were from New York two, New
faith of this nation have been most! that U until the said Indians shall I regret that vn( of the LlNewEng-
sacredly pledged. There are no trea- choose In remove ns by this act is con- land Senators could he so lost to his
The above statement is just lies hotw ccMho United States and ; templnted, they shall ic protected in (duty as a Senator, and so regardless
nd t run to the best of my knowledge 1 any foreign Powers upon earth couch-1 their possesions, and in the enjoyment j of the feelings and sympathies of the