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the part of the United states and the said Creek nation of Indians, and ratified by the United States on the seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty five, is hereby declared to be null and void to every intent and purpose whatsoever; and every right and claim arising from the same is hereby cancelled and surrendered."

Chapter II.

Cherokee Law against Traitors.

6. The story of Macintosh in the preceding chapter, has incidentally called up the Indian law against traitors who sell their country without authority. Though I have mentioned it in connection with the Creeks, I have stated that it was a general law, and not confined to any particular Indians. There is further evidence to this effect among the Seminoles, who, in the same way the Creeks had done, executed a traitor chief of theirs, previous to the present war. But it may be supposed, from the extraordinary love of country among the Cherokees,