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sign with their marks a treaty, denominated the treaty 

 of Fort Moultrie. The first article of this treaty stated 

 that themselves and their tribes have appealed to the 

 humanity, and thrown themselves on the protection of the 

 United States, " and do cede all claim to the whole ter- 

 ritory of Florida." The United States Government, in 

 its turn, agreed to pay six thousand dollars in goods, and 

 an annual payment of five thousand dollars. 



Immediately upon the execution of this agreement, 

 settlers poured in and commenced cultivating the lands 

 relinquished by the Indians, and many quarrels as to the 

 intrusion and the rights of person and property arose 

 between these two classes, so antagonistical in every ele- 

 ment of character. 



This difference of feeling led the United States 

 Government to propose, and carry into effect, in May, 

 1832, a conditional treaty known as the Payne's Landing 

 Treaty, signed by seventeen chiefs, whereby the Semi- 

 nole Indians agreed to emigrate to the territory of 

 Arkansas, west of the Mississippi River, providing they 

 should be satisfied with the country, after first sending 

 some of their chiefs to examine the land, and to give up 

 to the claimants the negroes said to have escaped. Seven 

 chiefs accordingly went, and in March of the following 

 year, at Fort Gibson in Arkansas, the seven chiefs ratified 

 the Payne's Landing Treaty, and without first making a 

 report to their tribes, made the original treaty irrevoca- 

 ble. 



No sooner, however, had the delegation returned and 

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