260 CHEROKEE NATION OF INDIANS. 
with both of which be was supposed to possess much influence. His 
mission was to urge upon them, and especially upon the former, the 
expediency of their removal west of the Mississippi under the induce- 
ments held out by the treaty of 1828. A month later! Col. E. I’. Tat- 
nall and on the Sth of July General John Coffee were appointed to co- 
operate with General Carroll in the accomplishment of his mission. 
The results of this tour were communicated? to the War Department 
by General Carroll in a report in which he remarked that nothing could 
be done with the Cherokees by secret methods; they were too intelli- 
gent and too well posted on the current news of the day to belong kept 
in ignorance of the methods and motives of those who came among them. 
He had met their leading men at Newtown and had submitted a pro- 
posal for their removal which was peremptorily rejected. The advance- 
ment the Cherokees had made in religion, morality, general information, 
and agriculture had astonished him beyond measure. They had regu- 
lar preachers in their churches, the use of spirituous liquors was in 
great degree prohibited, their farms were worked much after the man- 
ner of white people, and were generally in good order. Many families 
possessed all the comforts and some of the luxuries of life. Cattle, 
sheep, hogs, and fowl of every kind were found in great abundance. 
The Cherokees had been induced by Eastern papers to believe the Pres- 
ident was not sustained by the people in his views of their proposed 
removal. Eastern members of Congress had given their delegation to 
understand while in Washington the preceding spring that the memo- 
vialleft by them protesting against the extension of the laws of Georgia 
aud Alabama over Cherokee territory would be sustained by Congress, 
and that until that memorial had been definitely acted on by that body 
all propositions to them looking toward removal would be worse than 
useless. 
Cherokees refuse to cede lands in North Carolina.—In the early summer 
of 18293 a commission had also been appointed, consisting of Humphrey 
Posey and a Mr. Saunders, having in view the purchase from the Cher- 
okees of that portion of their country within the limits of North Caro- 
lina, but it, too, failed wholly of accomplishing its purpose. 
Coercive measures of the United States and Georgia.—Sundry expedi- 
ents were resorted to, both by the General Government and by the au- 
thorities of Georgia, to compel the acquiescence of the Indians in the 
demands for their emigration. 
The act of the Georgia legislature of December 20, 1825, already 
alluded to, was an act “to add the territory within this State and oceu- 
pied by the Cherokee Indians to the counties of De Kalb e¢ al., and to 
extend the laws of this State over the same.” This was followed* by 


1 June 25, 1829. 
2November 19, 1829. 
3 June 23, 1829. 
4December 19, 1829. 
