ZZ CHEROKEE NATION OF INDIANS. 
CHEROKEES PLEAD WITH CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT FOR JUSTICE. 
A delegation of the Cherokees, with John Ross at their head, was 
quartered in Washington during the greater part of the winter of 
183233, bringing to bear in behalf of their nation every possible in- 
fluence upon both Congress and the Executive. A voluminous corre- 
spondence was conducted between them and the War Department upon 
the subject of their proposed removal. In a communication on the 28th 
of January, 1833, they ask leave to say that, notwithstanding the various 
perplexities which the Cherokee people had experienced under the 
course of policy pursued toward them, they were yet unshaken in their 
objections to a removal west of the Mississippi River. On the question 
of their rights and the justice of their cause, their minds were equally 
unchangeable. They were, however, fully sensible that justice and 
weakness could not control the array of oppressive power, and that in 
the calamitous effects of such power, already witnessed, they could not 
fail to foresee with equal clearness that a removal to the west would 
be followed in a few years by consequences no less fatal. 
They therefore suggested for the consideration of the President, 
whether it would not be practicable for the Government to satisfy the 
claims of Georgia by granting to those of her citizens who had in the 
lotteries of that State drawn lots of land within Cherokee limits other 
should go up Hauluthee Hatchee, passing a level of good land between two mount- 
ains, to the head of Itchau Hatchee, and down the same to Tennessee, about 8 or 9 
miles above Nickajack. In the year 1798 the Cherokees had a settlement at the Mus- 
cle Shoals, Doublehead and Katagiskee were the chiefs, and the Creeks had a small 
settlement above the Creek path on Tennessee. The Cherokee settlement extended 
southwardly from the shoal probably a mile and a half. The principal temporary 
agent for Indian affairs south.of the Ohio was early instructed in 1777 to ascertain 
the boundary line of the four nations, and instructions were given accordingly by 
him to Mr. Dinsmore and Mr. Mitcbell to aid in doing it. Several attempts were 
made, but all proved abortive, owing to the policy of the Creeks, which was to 
unite the four nations in one confederacy and the national affairs of all to be in a 
convention to be held annually among the Creeks, where the speaker for the Creeks 
should preside. 
‘CAt every attempt made among the Creeks when these conventions met, the answer 
was, ‘We have no dividing lines, nor never had, between us. We have lines only 
between us and the white people, our neighbors.’ At times, when the subject was 
discussed in the convention of the Creeks, they claimed Tombigby, called by them 
Choctaw River (Choctau Hatchee), the boundary line between them and the Choc- 
taws. Tustunneggee Hopoie, brother of the old Efau Hajo (mad dog), who died at 
ninety-six years of age, and retained strength of memory and intelligence to this 
great age, reported publicly to the agent, ‘When he was a boy his father’s hunting 
camp was at Puttauchau Hatchee (Black Warrior).’ His father had long been at the 
head of the Creeks, and always told him ‘Choctaw River was their boundary with 
the Choctaws.’ He never saw a Choctaw hunting camp on this side the Black War- 
TLOY,. 
“A true copy from the original. 
“PHIL. HAWKINS, JR., 
MAst. A. Ty A.” 
