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limits, by any means, in our power, as early as possible. the laws of nations do not authorise force and right does not dwell in the sword; but we will use both, because we are strong now & independent of England & are at peace with Europe. It is time we are men of human feeling and have wives, "who give such and know How unclear tis to love the babe that milks them - But we will pluck the nipple from the smiling Indian Infants, boneless? gums and dash their brains out, to serve you, & will take the Land." Who in these days would think the United States guilty of such a promise, or Georgia so lost to sensibility as to require it! "We admit, say "the Committee" that after much anxiety & delay, Georgia is about to reap the full benefit of the contract in question, so far as it regards her lands, situated within the Creek Nation of Indians. But the manner in which this has been [scratched out - done] accomplished, compels us to say, we are less indebted