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In return for the ten millions of Cherokee land east, the treaty of 1835 gave no lands -- it only confirmed the title to lands already in possession and paid for ten years before.

    Under the treaty of 1835, the Cherokee national domain, which has been estimated at ten millions of acres east of the Mississippi, was taken from that tribe or nation. They received no lands in return. They were already in possession of the seven millions of acres to which they have been recently removed. They had obtained these under the fifteenth treaty, being the third of emigration, made in 1828 (See Synopsis, page 38) True, 800,000 acres adjacent were added to the seven millions but for these the United States caused the Cherokees to pay half a million of dollars.

The Cherokees purchased the only lands added to the domain west, under the treaty of 1835.

Not being paid in lands under the Treaty of 1838, the Cherokee country east was paid for in money.

    Not being paid in lands for the final cession of their national domain, the nation was entitled by our own principles and laws and precedents, to payment in some shape; and to a payment for it entirely apart from that for private and other claims.

Individual claims were also required to be provided for apart.

    Hence it is obvious that the five millions in the 1835 treaty, must have been understood by the Cherokees as payment for their national domain, and for their national domain only.

Proofs that the five millions were exclusively to pay for the national domain.

    That the Cherokees did so understand it, is evident from a passage in the Journal of the Commissioner, Mr. Schermerhorn, inserted in Senate Document 120, 25th Congress, page 515 -- Mr. Schermerhorn there says, in substance, that the Cherokee Committee (or Senate) insisted in 
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