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in the conflict entirely. So that he seemed determined that him and them, never should be brought together If that was not an arbitrary and seditious outrage, and a gross contempt offered to that body, and the whole country I am entirely mistaken He seems to consider his oaths of office as mere political forms, and that body submitted to the indignity and even aided him in his other dirty work, which to say the least of it, reflected but little credit, either for their profundity of wisdom, or integrity to the Country His Excellency was well aware that no money could be raised either by hypothecation or sale, as he well knew our financial agent had just returned; who had not only tried to borrow the credit of the brken down institutions of the United States, but who had raked over all Europe, and combed down the Dutch without being able to make one dollar available to the Country Whom he well knew had not only the power to hypothecate, but the power to sell all Texas, lock, stock, and barrel, for whatever she would fetch; a latitudinarian power without stint or limit, as he aided in the procuration himself, whilst acting as legislator in secret cabal These secret cabals are not only designed for mischief; but strike at the very foundations of liberty itself To return from this digression, I will now make a few remarks touching his favorite indian policy? If any sensible and honest man can assign any good reason or sound policy in employing agents to scout over the prairies, and particularly to other governments to collect indians in our own territory to form treaties at the expense of thousands; I will feel under obligations as I am totally at a loss to see any good sense or sound policy in it To treat with our own native indians seems not the object, they are wild and cannot be follnd; but it is the United States indians that can be found, about which he is so solicitous His Cherokees and their associates; and to blind the people with the great pomp and circumstance, he lets them know that a United States agent assists at the treaty. Is not that Government allready bound by treaty to take care of, and be responsible for her own indi-ans? If they com- mit depredations and spoliation on our citizens is not that Government able to make it good, and punish their own aggressors? Why not then call upon that Government, whose good faith we have no right to doubt; rather than form treaties with irresponsible savages in whose faith we can put no confidence? If he call those indians into our own Country and form alliances with them, we then take them ,rom under the controll of their own Government, and by our own act wantonly become their insurers?. We then by our own act, release that Govern- ment and take the responsibility on our own shoulders? The same indians that his predecessor was compelled from necessity, to drive out of the Country, at the cost of treasure life and limb; he now thinks proper to hire and coax back, allowing them again to settle in our own Country; thus enticing them to quit the United States and take the responsibility on ourselves? Is this good sense, or is it good pol- icy? If not, it must be nonsense and design? When they were driven out of the Country their political Chief was left behind, and he is now getting them back, that is the whole secret;- his first app,earance was in the capacity of Cherokee Chief and remains so yet His whole con- duct proves that he has been industriously engaged in their business at the expense and eminent hazard of our own The next thing we see from his Excellency is his proclamation
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