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people, which happened in 1823. The leading actors in it were General William Macintosh, second Chief of the Creeks, and John Ross, at that time President of the Cherokee National Committee, under the administration of Path Killer, then Cherokee Principal Chief. The affair is interesting. I will give some of the leading particulars of it.

Before this event took place, the policy of removing all Indians from within the United States to an ample district west of the Mississippi and without the limits of any state or territory, had been so determined on the part of our government, that there was no longer any delicacy whatever in relation to the means by which it was to be attempted. The Cherokees and their neighbors the Creeks watched all movements on this subject with extreme jealousy. In 1822, congress had, at the instance of Georgia, made certain appropriations and had appointed commissioners, for the purchases of the Cherokee territory. At the following autumnal council of the Cherokees, a resolution was passed "to hold no treaties with any commissioners of the United States for any cession of lands, the Cherokees being resolved not to dispose of even one foot of ground," "having