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this, a chief and warrior ftarted up, and with an 
agitated and terrific countenance, frowning me- 
naces and difdain, fixed his eyes on the Cherokee 
chiefs, and afked thern what right they had to 
give away their lands, calling them old women, 
and faying they had long ago obliged them to wear 
the petticoat, a mod humiliating and degrading 
ftroke, in the prefence of the chiefs of the whole 
Mufcogulge confederacy, of the Chicafaws, prin- 
cipal men and citizens of Georgia, Carolina, Vir- 
ginia, Maryland and Pennfylvania, in the face of 
their own chiefs and citizens, and amidft the laugh 
and jeers of the affembly, efpecialiy the young 
men of Virginia, their old enemies and 'dreaded 
neighbours : but humiliating as it really was, they 
were obliged to bear the ftigma paffively, and even 
without a reply* 
And moreover, thefe arrogant bravo s and ufurp- 
ers carried their pride and importance to fuch 
lengths, as even to threaten to diflblve the congrefs 
and return home, unlefs the Georgians confented 
to annul the fecret treaty with the Cherokees, and 
receive that territory immediately from them, as ac- 
knowledging their exclufive right of alienation 5 
which was complied with, though violently ex- 
torted from the Cherokees, contrary to right and 
fandtion of treaties ; fmce the Savanna river and its- 
waters were acknowledged to be the natural and juft 
bounds of territory betwixt the Cherokees and Muf- 
eogulges. 
The national character of the Mufcogulges,. 
when confidered in a political view, exhibits a 
portraiture of a great or iiluftrious heroe. A 
proud, haughty and arrogant race of men ; they 
are brave and valiant in war, ambitious of con- 
queft, reftlefs and perpetually exercifmg , their 
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