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tion, the success of the Commissioners would have equalled 

 their wishes ; but it was discovered that the Indians had been 

 influenced by the United States sub-agent, Walker, by their 

 interpreter Hambly, by Missionaries, and by Cherokee chiefs, 

 to refuse a cession ; and it was believed that this was done 

 with the connivance of John Crowell, the agent. The nego- 

 tiation altogether failed. It was in evidence that Crowell and 

 his brother had declared " that Georgia should get no land 

 from the Indians while Troup was Governor." Empowered so 

 to do, the same Commissioners met the Creeks in council again 

 at the Indian Springs, on the r2th day of February, 1825, and 

 concluded with them a treaty of that date. But the Indians 

 ceded to the United States, for Georgia, their right to all their 

 lands in Georgia, and also ceded a portion in Alabama, and 

 agreed to remove to the West, before the first day of Septem- 

 ber, 1826. The most perfect justice was done ; they were to 

 receive acre for acre in Western lands, and four hundred 

 thousand dollars in money. The attendance of chiefs was 

 a good one, and much larger than usual when chiefs only 

 are invited. No fairer consideration was ever given for 

 Indian relinquishment. Crowell, the agent, attested the treaty. 

 The next day he set off for Washington, to protest against it ; 

 but Mr. Monroe submitted the treaty to the Senate, by 

 whom it was solemnly ratified. 



A short time after this, the celebrated chief and warrior. 

 General William Mcintosh, whose whole life had been devoted 

 to Georgia as well as to his own tribe, fell beneath the blows 

 of assassins, when reposing in his own house, on our own soil. 

 The hostile Indians surrounded his home, cowardlike, in the 

 midst of night, fired it, and, as he attempted to leave it, perfo- 

 rated his body with a hundred bullets. He had given his in- 

 fluence in favour of the treaty, and was a friend to Georgia. 

 The Indians who slew him pretended that it was done in exe- 

 cution of some unwritten law of their country, as a punish- 

 ment for the cession of land. Mcintosh, friendly to Georgia, 

 had, on our Governor's application, assented, for his people, to 

 an immediate survey, so as to prepare for white occupation 

 on the first of September, 1826. This brave warrior and the 

 other treaty-making Indians had borne arms for the United 



