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of two thousand. They have been solicited to 

 sell their lands, by the state of New York, and 

 retire to Green Bay, Lake Michigan. It ap- 

 pears to be an object with the United States 

 government to induce all the Indians to retire 

 beyond the limits of their present States, 

 towards the rocky mountains, where there is a 

 vast country which it is supposed they might 

 possess to their advantage and happiness. It 

 is thought, if that territory should be divided 

 into districts, by previous agreement with the 

 tribes now residing there, and civil govern- 

 ments established in each, with schools for 

 every branch of instruction in literature, and in 

 the arts of civilized life, and subsequently 

 if the whole of the Indians within the borders 

 of any of the States, were to withdraw to those 

 regions, the plan would rescue them from 

 many calamities to which they are now subject, 

 and prevent the future extinction of their 

 tribes, with which they are threatened. To re- 

 move them by force, even with a view to their 

 own security and happiness, would however be 

 revolting to humanity, and utterly unjustifiable ; 

 and difficulties of a most serious character have 

 occurred latelv with the Creek Indians, and 



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the Cherokees living in the States of Georgia 

 and Alabama, in an attempt to lead them to 



