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sovereignty, protection & dominion of that Government." The early history of Georgia will enable us to understand the true situation - crossed out state of the subject in regard to the Indians & Georgia. A certain corporation in England, from motives of humanity, attempted to colonise Georgia by sending over, at their expense, a certain population, who were selected as fit objects of charity. In 1732 they arrived at Savannah, under the direction of General Oglethorpe of worthy memory. After building huts to shelter his little colony, his first care was to secure their safety by a treaty of peace & friendship with the Creek Indians, who lived in the country, and purchased lands from them. He found an Indian woman, the wife of a trader who spoke English & Creek and employed him with a handsome salary as an Inter-