556 TROUP COUNTY. 



States ; those opposed to the treaty had been hostile in the war 

 with Great Britain in 1812, 13, 14, and 15. So faithful had 

 he been to us, that British blandishments had failed to affect 

 his attachments ; and, as a just reward for his fidelity and bra- 

 very, a brigadier general's commission had, in that war, been 

 sent to him from Washington. Again, in 1817 and 1818, he 

 served under General Andrew Jackson against the Indians' 

 of Florida. The Indians friendly to the treaty were the same 

 who had made previous cessions, against their power to make 

 which no word had been uttered. They were the proprietors 

 and occupants of the ceded lands, and in battle had conquered, 

 in times past, the recusant Indians : those opposed were inha- 

 bitants of the interior country, altogether in Alabama, and little 

 concerned with the question. But a few years before General 

 Jackson had treated the latter as a conquered people, and had 

 prescribed to them their bounds. 



The Governor convened the Legislature in May, 1825, in 

 extra session, and recommended that the acquired land be sur- 

 veyed. An act was passed accordingly. A strong resolution 

 was adopted, calling upon the President to remove the Indian 

 Agent from office, as the enemy of Georgia, and as faithless to 

 his Government. Mr. John Quincy Adams had become Pre- 

 sident. He refused to remove him, but instituted an inquiry 

 into his conduct, appointing for that purpose " a Clerk of 

 Bureau." He also commissioned Major General Gaines to 

 repair to Georgia, " to suppress the disorders of the Nation and 

 compose its dissensions." These two high functionaries 

 made their appearance in the State, and forthwith evinced an 

 unbecoming partiality for the Agent and for those Indians who 

 were inimical, and manifested a disposition to set at naught, 

 and to trample upon, the rights and dignity of the State of 

 Georgia. She had, unhappily, long been divided into two bit- 

 ter parties, of late years principally upon personal grounds, 

 and " the Major General Commanding" very soon manifested 

 his alliance with that in opposition to the then Chief Magis- 

 trate. The Governor appointed Commissioners, as enjoined 

 by the Legislature, to inquire into the delinquency of the Agent. 

 When attending conferences held by General Gaines with the 

 Indians in Georgia, upon her own soil, they were debarred 



