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authority to form treaties or to make cessions, and that the stipulations in the said treaty, are, therefore, wholly void. And whereas, the United States are unwilling that difficulties should exist in the said nation, which may eventually lead to an intertine? (for internecine?) war; and are still more unwilling that any cession of land should be made to them, unless with the fair understanding and full assent of the tribe making such cession, and for a just and adequate consideration; it being the policy of the United States in all their intercourse with the Indians, to treat them justly and liberally, as becomes the relative situation of the parties: Now, therefore, in order to remove the difficulties which have thus arisen, to satisfy the great body of the Creek nation, and to reconcile the contending parties into which it is unhappily divided, the following articles have been agreed upon and concluded between James Barbour?, Secretary of War, specially authorised as aforesaid, and the said Chiefs and Head Men representing the Creek nation of Indians: -- Article First, the treaty concluded at the Indian Springs, on the twelfth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty five, between Commissioners on