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will go on and prosper. Already has the fund set apart for that laudable object, increased to an amount which promises the means of much positive usefulness to that portion of the community for whose benefit and advantage, it was originally designed. No longer will the means of elementary learning be limited to those whose private resources are equal to the expense, but the road to distinction in every department of science and moral excellency, will be equally open to all the youth of our country whose am- bition may urge them on in the contest of ho9orable emulation. SAM HOUSTON 1 Hardin-Simmons University Library, Abilene, Texas. Ho11se Journal, 1827, 198-206; Senate Jourrwl, 1827, 129-138, Tennessee State Library. William Carey Crane, Life cmd Select Literary Remains of Sam Houston, 273-277. These ·sources give the same report so far as words and sentences are concerned, but they differ one from the other in paragraph division. This copy is taken from the Senate Journal, Tennessee Legislature, 1827, pp. 129-138, Tennessee State Library, by certified copy.
To THE LEGISLATURE OF TENNESSEE 1 Executive Office, Nashville, 27th October, 1827.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives:- At the last session of congress an appropriation of ten thousand dollars was made for holding a treaty with the Cherokee nation of Indians, with; a view of obtaining a relinquishment of a small portion of their lands, and of procuring their assmt to the con- struction of a canal from Hiwassee to Coosa. The commissioners appointed by the general government for holding the treaty, have en,tirely failed in the attainment of either of the objects contemplated; but it seems to be the opinion of the commissioners, that the failure is not attributable to the want of disposition on the part of the nation at large, nor to the want of a just sense of their ~est interests. General J oh.n Cocke, one of the commissioners, appointed by the president to hold the treaty, has addressed a letter to me, accompanied by a copy of the constitutions, or form of separate government, lately established by the Cherokees. The letter and copy are herewith transmitted to the General Assembly in com- pliance with the wish of General Cocke, that his suggestions may receive that consideration to which they are entitled. Sam Houston. 1 House Journal of 1827, 304-305; also Senate Journal of 1827, 211-212, Tennessee State Library.
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