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th is, a chief and warrior ftarted up, and with as 
agitated and terrific countenance, trowing men- 
aces and difdain, fixed his eyes on the Cherokee 
chiefs, and afked them what right they had to 
give away their lands, calling them old women, 
and faying they had long ago obliged them td 
wear the petticoat ; a moft humiliating and de- 
grading ftroke, in the prefence of the chiefs of 
the whole Mufcogulge confederacy, of the Chi- 
cafaws, principal men and citizens of Georgia, 
Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Pennfylvania, 
in the face of their own chiefs and citizens, and 
amidfi the laugh and jeers of the affembly, es- 
pecially the young men of Virginia, their old ene- 
mies and dreaded neighbours : but humiliating as 
it really was, they were obliged to bear the ftig- 
ma paffively, and even without a reply. 
And moreover, thefe arrogant bravos and 
ufurpers carried their pride and importance to 
fiich lengths, as even to threaten to diffolve 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 acknowledging their exclufive 
right of alienation ; which was complied with, 
though violently extorted from the Cherokee. , 
contrary to right and fandtion of treaties ; lince 
the Savanna river and its waters were acknow- 
ledged to be the natural and juft bounds of terri- 
tory betwixt the Cherokees and Mufcogulges. 
The national character of the' Mufcogulges, 
when coniidered in a political view, exhibits a 
portraiture of a great or .illuftrious heroe. A_ 
proud, haughty and arrogant race of men ; they 
r e brave and valiant in war, ambitious of con- 
gueft, reftlefs and perpetually exercifing their 
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