to a volley of shots from behind their barricade, but the door was 

 quickly battered in, and the brave chief who had more than once served 

 his country well, died a fearful death at the hands of his enemies. 



Later, the treaty of 1825 was repudiated by Congress, and a new 

 one drawn up, altering the boundaries of Georgia. The State's survey 

 of the newly acquired land was ordered stopped, by President Adams, 

 doubtless at the instigation of the discontented chiefs, who had gone 

 unpunished for the murder of Mcintosh and their white friends. 



But Governor Troup, of Georgia, General Mcintosh's cousin, 

 and a vigorous upholder of State sovereignty, stoutly refused to 

 recognize the changes, and continued the survey of the land which he 

 had begun by order of the State. He sent the following message to 

 Congress: "We might constitutionally have appealed to you for 

 defense against invasion, but you yourselves are the invaders; and, 

 what is more, the unblushing allies of savages whose cause you have 

 adopted." Finally, due to his firm stand, the matter was adjusted 

 peaceably. 



The old Treaty Tree recalls a stirring chapter, indeed, in Ameri- 

 can history, and has been commemorated in verse by Lucien Lamar 

 Knight, State Historian of Georgia. 



"By the water's crystal margin, 



On whose bosom, dreamily, 

 Falls the shadow of the forest, 



Stands a proud, imperial tree. 

 No companion rises near it; 



No congenial shade is nigh; 

 Rivaled only by the mountains, 



Piled against the purple sky. 



"Fit memorial of the Red Man 



Its majestic silence speaks, 

 Of a time when all these valleys 



Held the wigwams of the Creeks. 

 Ere their fair domain was ceded, 



At the white man's stern behest, 

 Or the sunset's beckoning splendors, 



Wooed them to the Golden West. 



"Like a tall Corinthian column, 



Reared beneath a summer cloud, 

 Part of God's own grand pavilon, 



Verdue-paved and azure-browed; 

 Reaching from the world below It, 



From its sorrow-stricken sod, 

 To the golden lamps above it 



To the sweeter airs of God." 



The Lafayette or Geneva Century Tree 



On June 8, 1825, General Lafayette was entertained at Geneva, 

 N. Y., while touring that State, and was received by an enthusiastic 

 gathering, under the tree which still bears his name. The Lafayette or 

 Geneva Century Tree, as it has also been called, is an immense balsam 

 poplar, standing on Maple Hill, on the corner of the Albany and 

 Buffalo turnpike and the old Pre-emption Road. This highway was 

 once an Indian trail, but became a State road in 1794. 



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