258 CHEROKEE NATION OF INDIANS. 
The $100,000 appropriated in article 12 for the poorer class of Chero- 
kees, and intended as a set-off to the pre-emption rights, shall now be 
added to the general national fund of $400,000. 
5. The expenses of negotiating the treaty and supplement and of 
such persons of the Cherokee delegation as may sign the same shall be 
defrayed by the United States. 
Norn.—The following amendments were made by the United States 
Senate: In article 17 strike out the words ‘“ by General William Carroll 
and John F. Schermerhorn, or;” also, in the same article, after the word 
“States,” insert ‘by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of 
the United States;” and strike out the 20th article, which appears as 
a supplemental article. 
HISTORICAL DATA. 
ZEALOUS MEASURES FOR REMOVAL OF EASTERN CHEROKEES. 
While the events connected with the negotiation and the execution of 
the treaty of 1828 with the Western Cherokees were occurring those 
Cherokees who yet remained in their old homes east of the Mississippi 
River were burdened with a continually increasing catalogue of dis- 
tressing troubles. So soon as the treaty of 1828 was concluded it was 
made known to them that inducements were therein held out for a con- 
tinuance of the emigration to the Arkansas country. Agent Mont- 
gomery was instructed’ to use every means in his power to facilitate 
this scheme of removal, and especially among those Cherokees who re- 
sided within the chartered limits of Georgia. 
Secret agents were appointed and $2,000 were authorized by the 
Secretary of War to be expended in purchasing the influence of the 
chiefs in favor of the project.2. A. R.S. Hunter and J. 8. Bridges were 
appointed® commissioners to value the improvements of the Cherokees 
who should elect to remove. 
After nearly a year of zealous work in the cause, Agent Montgomery 
was only able to report the emigration of four hundred and thirty-one 
Indians and seventy-nine slaves, comparatively few of whom were from 
Georgia! Nine months later three hundred and forty-six persons had 
emigrated from within the limits of that State. The hostility mani- 
fested by the larger proportion of the Cherokees toward those who 
gave favorable consideration to the plan of removal was so great as to 
require the establishment of a garrison of United States troops within 
the nation for their protection.* 
President Jackson’s advice to the Cherokees.—Early in 1829," a delegation 
from the nation proceeded to Washington to lay their grievances before 

1 May 27, 1828. 
> Letter of War Department to Hugh Montgomery, Cherokee agent, May 27, 1828, 
and to General William Carroll, May 30, 1629. 
3 December 18, 1828. 
‘Letter of T. L. McKenney to Secretary of War, November, 17, 1829. 
> Letter of T. L. McKenney to Hugh Montgomery, Cherokee agent, August 6, 1830 
° Letter of Cherokee delegation (East) to Secretary of War, January 21, 1829. 
