CREEK INDIANS, 



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forsake their birth-right possessions, and the 

 place where the ashes of their ancestors are 

 deposited. These Indians have a considerable 

 number of towns, and villages, and well culti- 

 vated farms in the above States ; and it appears 

 that a chief of considerable influence among 

 them, called General M'Intosh, induced a few 

 others of the Creek nation, with himself, to 

 conclude a treaty with the commissioners of 

 the United States, for the sale of the whole 

 of the Indian lands in possession and reserva- 

 tion. As soon as it was generally known, 

 thirty seven chiefs, and headmen of different 

 towns and villages, over which they presided, 

 of the Creek nation, met in council, condemned 

 M'Intosh, and put him to death as a traitor ; 

 declaring at the same time, that they had made 

 three irrevocable laws, viz.— 



First. That they would not receive one 

 dollar of the sum, stipulated to be paid by the 

 last treaty, through the treachery of M'lntosh, 

 for their lands. 



Second. That they would not make war 

 upon the whites, nor would they shed a drop 

 of the blood of those who should be sent to 

 take their lands from them. 



Third. That if they were turned out of their 

 houses, they would die at the corner of their 



