298 CHEROKEE NATION OF INDIANS. 
dered Ridges and Boudinot had never forgiven the act, nor had time 
served to soften the measure of their resentment against the perpetra- 
tors and their supposed abettors. Stand Watie had long been a leader 
among the Ridge party and had been marked for assassination at the 
time of the murders just alluded to. He was a brother of John Ridge, 
one of the murdered men, and he now, in virtue of his mission as an 
avenger, killed James Foreman, a member of the Ross party and one of 
the culprits in the murder of the Ridges. Although Stand Watie ex- 
cused his conduct on the score of having come to a knowledge of cer- 
tain threats against his life made by Foreman, no event could at that 
time have been more demoralizing and destructive of the earnestly de- 
sired era of peace and good feeling among the Cherokee people. From 
that time forward all hope of a sincere unification of the several tribal 
factions was at an end. 
ADJUDICATION COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED. 
Tn the autumn of 1842! the President appointed John H. Haton and 
James Iredell as commissioners to adjudicate and settle claims under 
the treaty of 1835. Mr. Iredell declined, and Edward B. Hubley was 
appointed? to fill his place. This tribunal was created to continue the 
uncompleted work of the board appointed in 1836 under the provisions 
of the same article, the labors of which had terminated in March, 1839, 
having been in session more than two years. 
TREATY CONCLUDED AUGUST 6, 1846; PROCLAIMED AUGUST 17, 1846.* 
Held at Washington, D. C., between Edmund Burke, William Armstrong, 
and Albion K. Parris, commissioners on behalf of the United States, 
and delegates representing each of the three factions of the Cherokee 
Nation, known, respectively, as the “ Government party,” the ‘ Treaty 
party,” and the ** Old Settler party.” 
MATERIAL PROVISIONS. 
The preamble recites the difficulties that have long existed between 
the different factions of the nation, and because of the desire to heal 
those differences and to adjust certain claims against the United States 
growing out of the treaty of 1835 this treaty is concluded, and pro- 
vides: 
1. The lands now oceupied by the Cherokee Nation shall be secured 
to the whole Cherokee people for their common use and benefit. The 
United States will issue a patent therefor to include the 800,000-acre 
tract and the western outlet. If the Cherokees become extinct or 
abandon the land it shall revert to the United States. 
‘September 9, 1842. 
2 November 8, 1842. 
3 United States Statute at Large, Vol. IX, p. 871. 
