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this, a chief and warrior darted up, and, with an 
agitated and terrific countenance, frowning menaces 
and difdain, fixed his eyes on the Cherokee chiefs, 
and a iked them what right they had to give away 
their lands, calling them old women, and faying 
they had long ago obliged them to wear the petti- 
coat ; a mod humiliating and degrading ftroke, in 
the prefence of the chiefs of the whole Mufcoguige 
confederacy, of the Chicafaws, principal men and 
citizens of Georgia, Carolina, Virginia, Maryland 
and Pennfylvania, in the face of their own chiefs and 
citizens, and amidd the laugh and jeers of the afiem- 
bly, efpecially die young men of Virginia, their old 
enemies and dreaded neighbours : but humiliating as 
it really was, they were obliged to bear the digma 
padlvely, and even without a reply. 
And, moreover, thefe arrogant bravos and ufurp- 
ers carried their pride and importance to fuch 
lengths, as even to threaten to dilfolve the congrefs 
and return home, unlefs the Georgians confented to 
annul the fecret treaty with the Cherokees, and re- 
ceive that territory immediately from them, as ac- 
knowledsino- their exclufive right of alienation : 
which was complied with, though violently extorted 
from the Cherokees, contrary to right and fancdion 
of treaties ; fince the Savanna river and its waters 
were acknowledged to be the natural and juft bounds 
of territory betwixt the Cherokees and Mufco- 
guiges. 
The national chara&er of the Mufcogulges* 
when confidered in a political view, exhibits a 
portraiture of a great or illuftrious hero. A 
proud, haughty and arrogant race of men ; they 
are brave and valiant in war, ambitious of con- 
qued, redlefs and perpetually exercifing their 
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