558 TROUP COUNTY. 



orders for a division of the militia into three classes, and stated 

 therein his belief that "the general officers could not find them- 

 selves indifferent to the crisis in which the country finds 

 itself." Orders w^ere also issued, looking to the filling up of 

 the ranks of the existing volunteer companies, and the forma- 

 tion of new ones. The Federal Government had already as- 

 sembled at Fort Mitchell, on the Chattahoochee, and on the 

 Flint river, a force of four hundred regular troops. A collision 

 might be expected. The peace of the Union was in danger! 

 It was now that divers chiefs of the Creek Indians, certified 

 by Mr. John Crowell, to be " very proper men," were as- 

 sembled in Washington City, where, on the 24th January, 

 1826, a New Treaty was made, declaring the Old Treaty null 

 and void, but ceding, for Georgia, nearly all the land covered 

 by the old, and extending the time of surrender to the first 

 day of January, 1827. Against this treaty, the Georgia Sena- 

 tors, Berrien and Cobb, voted. It was ratified by the Senate 

 in April. The House of Representatives appropriated the 

 money to carry it into eflfect, and the Georgia Representatives 

 filed their protests. They did their duty to Georgia in both 

 Houses. Particularly effective were the speeches of the Hon. 

 Mr. Berrien and the Hon. Mr. Forsyth in the maintenance, in 

 their respective chambers, of the rights and honour of Geor- 

 gia. The Governor, at home, held the new treaty to be a 

 piece of blank paper. It had prescribed, as he believed, dif- 

 ferent boundaries for Georgia, from those set forth in her con- 

 stitution, and guaranteed them. Lands were taken from Geor- 

 gia and abandoned to the Indians for ever ; and the jurisdiction 

 over the river Chattahoochee, before that time absolute in 

 Georgia, was now divided between Georgia and Alabama. 

 Moreover, to admit it, would be to acknowledge all the ca- 

 lumnies — to confess all the charges made against the com- 

 missioners Campbell and Meriwether, and against the shade 

 of Mcintosh — and to abandon principle for expediency. 



Standing flat-footed upon the old treaty, the Governor, in 

 July, 1826, ordered certain commissioners to proceed to run 

 the line between Georgia and Alabama, as laid down by the 

 contract of 1802. This was effected before the 1st of Sep- 

 tember. The land was then ready for our surveyors. They 



