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I if t CHEUOKKK TRBATY.b 'The Globe of ihR'JSth ult. con tains the draft of "a Treaty agreed ipon at the City of Washington, March,-14th, 1S35, between J. F. Schermerhorn, on the part of the United States, and a Delega tion of the Cherokee Tribe of In dians, which, by the President of the U. States, is directed to be submitted to the Cherokee Na tion lor tueir consideration and ODnrobation." This Treaty is to be submitted to the People of the Cherokee iNation, after due no lice, ace. "lor their concurrence and adoption; and if it shall ap pear, after a fair, free, and full expression of their sentiments, that a majority of the people are in favor of the treaty, it shall be considered as approved and con firmed by the Nation; and their whole country shall be deemed to be ceded, and their claim and title to it to cease.' The fundamental article of the Treaty, is in the following words: "The Cherokee Nation of In dians, for and in consideration of the additional quantity of land whichthe Indians are to receive in exchange beyond the Mississip pi guaranteed and secured to them by the third article of this treaty, and of the fulfilment of the covenants and stipulations herein after mentioned, and also of the sum of four millions live hundred thousand dollars, to be expended, paid, and invested, as agreed in the following articles, do hereby cede, relinquish, and convey to the U. States, all their right and title to all the lands owned, claim ed, and possessed by them, inclu ding the lands reserved Hv them for a school fund, east of the Mis sissippi river." The additional quantity of land above referred to is seven millions of acres. The Treaty contains a number of articles specifying the manner in which the consideration-money of this Treaty (Four Millions and a half of dollars) shall be applied, the several particulars of which are summed up, at the close of the Treaty, in the following' schedule: For Removal. - $255,000 00 Subsistence, - 400,000 00 Improvements and fer ries, - . 1,000,000 00 Claims and bpolia- tions, Domestic animals, National debts, Public building-?, Printing press, &c., Blankets, Kifles, Kettles, Per capita allow ance, General fund, School fund, Orphans' fund, Additional territory, valued at midst Your of a white population. caliar customs, which pe 250,000 00 - 10.000 00 60,000 00 30,000 00 - 5,000 00 36,000 00 37.000 00 7,000 00 1,800,000 00 400,000 00 1G0,000 00 50,000 00 500,000 00 35,000,000 00 School fund already invested, - . 48,251 76 Commutation of perpet ual annuity, - 214,000 00 5,262,251 00 The Treaty U to take effect when ratified by a majority ot the Cherokees, and by the President, by and with the ad rice and con sent of the Senate of the U. States. The following Letter from the President of the United States, is published with the Treaty:. regulated your intercourse with one another, have been abrogated by the great political community among which you live; and you are now suhject to the same laws which govern the other citizens of Georgia and Alabama. You are liable to prosecutions for of fences, and to civil actions for a breach of any of your contracts. Most of your people are unedu cated, and are liable to be brought into collision at all times with their white neighbors Your young men are acquiring habits of intoxication. VVith strong pas sions, and without those habits of restraint which our laws inculcate and render necessary, they are frequently driven to excesses which mu-;t eventually terminate in their ruin. The game has dis appeared among you, and you must depend upon agriculture and the mechanic arts for support. And, yet, a large portion of your people have acquired little or no property in the soil itself, or in any article of personal property which can be useful to them. How, under these circumstances, can vou live in the country vou To the Cherokee Tribe of Tn,?i ans East of the Mississippi yur reach. My friends: I have lone vieul your condition with interest. For many years I have been acntmin. ted with your people, and under I commence your career of improve now occupy? lour condition must become worse and worse, and you will ultimately disappear, as so many tribes have done be fore you. Of all this I warned your peo ple, when I met them in council eighteen years ago. I then ad vised ihem to sell out their pos sessions east of the Mississippi and to remove to the country west of that river. This advice I have continued to give you at various times horn that period down to the present day, and can you now look back and doubt the wisdom ot this counsel? Had you then removed, you would have gone with all the means ne cessary to establish yourselves in a fertile country, sumciently exten sive for your subsistence, and be yond the reach of the moral evils which are hasiening your destruc tion. Instead ol being a divided people as you now are, arrayed into parties bitterly opposed to each other, you would have been a prosperous and a united commu nity, i our farms would have been erected, the means of subsis tence abundant, and you would have been governed by your own customs and laws, and removed from the effects of a white nonu- lation. here you now are, you are encompassed by evils, moral and physical, and these are fearful ly increasing. Look even at the experience of the last few years. What have you gained by adhering to the pernicious counsels which have led you to reject the liberal offers made for your removal? They promised you an improvement in your condition, Uut instead of that, every year has brought in creasing difficulties. How, then, can you place confidence in the advice of men who are mislead ing you for their own purposes, and whose assurances have prov ed, from the experience of every year, to be utterly unfounded? I have no motive, my friends, to deceive you. I am sincerely desirous to promote your welfare. Liten to me, therefore, while I tell you that you cannot remain where you now arc. Circum stances that cannot be controlled, and which are beyond the reach ol human laws, render it impossi ble that you can flourish in the midst of a civilized cummimitv ou have hut one remedy within And that is, to re move to the West and ioin vour countrymen, who are already es tablished there. And the sooner you no mis, the sooner you will all variety peace and i-iicurnsiances, in war. Your full were well known to me, and the regard which I cherished for them lias caused me to feel great solici tude for your situation. To these feelings, growing out of former recollections, have been added the sanction of official duty, and the relation in which, bv "the consti tution and laws, I arn placed to wards you. Listen t0 ,herp fore as your fathers have listened, while I communicate to you my sentiments on the critical state of your affairs. You are now placed in the ment and prosperity. A number of your brethren, who have been delegated by that portion of your people favorable to emigration, have repaired to this place, in the hope of being able to make some arrangement which would be acceptable to the Government of the United States and which would meet your an' probation. They do not claim the right of making any arrange ment which would be binding upon you; but have expressly stated, that whatever they did would be utterly void, unless submitted to and approved by you. The whole subject has been la ken into consideration, and an arrangement has been made, which ought to be, and I trust will be, entirely satisfactory to you. The Senate of the United States have given their opinion of the value of your possessions; and this value is ensured to you in the arrangement which has been prepared. Mr. John Ross, and the party who were with him, expressed their determina tion to accept, so far as they were concerned, such a sum as the Senate might consider just, and promised to recommend and sup port the same in your general council. The stipulations con tained in this instrument, are de signed to afford due protection to private rights, to make adequate provision for the poorer class of your people, to provide lor the removal of all, and to lay the foundation of such social and po litical establishments in your new country as will render you a hap py and prosperous people. Why, then, should any honest man a mong you object to removal? The United States have assigned to you a fertile and extensive country, with a very fine climate adapted to your habits, and with all the other natural advantages which you ought to desire or ex pect. I shall, in the course of a short time, appoint commissioners for the purpose of meeting the whole body of your people in council. They will explain to you, more fully, my views, and the nature of the stipulations which arc of fered to you. These stipulations provide: 1st. For an addition to the coun try already assigned to you west of the Mississippi, and for the conveyance of the whole of it, by patent, in fee simple. And also for the security of the necessary political rights and for preventinjr white persons from trespassing upon you. 2d. For the payment of the full value to each individual, of his possession in Georgia, Ala bama, North Carolina, and Tennessee. 3d. For the removal, at the ex pense of the United States, of your whole people; for their subsistence for a year after their arrival in their new country, and for a gratuity of one hun dred and fifty dollars to each person. 4th. For the usual supply of ri fles, blankets, and kettles. 5th. For the investment of the sum of four hundred thousand dollars, in order to secure a per manent annuity. Cth. For adequate provision for schools, agricultural instru ments, domestic animals, mis sionary establishments, the support of orphans, &c. 7th. For the payment of claims. Sib. For granting pensions to such of your people as have been disabled in the service of the United States. These are the general provis ions contained in the arrange ment. Hut there are many other details favorable to vou which I do not stop here to enumerate, as they will be placed before you in 1 i I r rr i inu HiiaugL-muni nsen. I lieir total amount is four millions five hundred thousand dollars, which added to the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, estimated as the value of the additional land gran ted you, makes five millions of dollars. A sum, which if equally divided among all your people east of the Mississippi, estimating them at ten thousand, which I be lieve is their full number, would give five hundred dollars to every man, woman, and child in your nation. There are few separate communities, whose property, if divided, would give to the per sons composing them, such an amount. It is enough to estab lish you all in the most comforta ble manner;and it is to be observed, that besides this, there are thir teen millions of acres conveyed to the western Cherokees and yourselves by former treaties, and which are destined for your and their permanent residence. So that your whole country, west of the Mississippi, will contain not less than thirteen millions eight hundred thousand acres. The choice now is before you. May the Great Spirit teach you how to cTioose. The fa!e of youi women and children, the fate ol your people to the remotest gen eration, depend upon the issue. Deceive yourselves no longer. Do not cherish the belief that you can ver resume your former po litical situation, while you con tinue in your present residence. As certain as the sun shines to guide you in your path, so certain is it that you cannot drive back the laws of Georgia from among vou. Every year will increase your difficulties. Look at the oitnrl i t inn O f the Creeks. See the collisions which are taking place with them. See how their young men are committing depredations upon the property of our citizens, and are shedding their blood. This cannot and will not be al lowed. Punishment will follow, and all who are engaged in these offences must suffer. Your young men will commit the same acts, and the same consequences must ensue. Think then of all these things. Shut your ears to bad counsels. of the great Democratic family of Look at your condition as it now I the Union alone can successfully is Wilson addressed the meeting in a lucid and appropriate speech, when, on motion, the Chair ap pointed John Mercrr, laac Noi flect, Joah P. Pi", Benjamin Sharpe, Dempsey Bryan, and Willis Wilkin, Hsqs. ;t commit tee to draft resolutions expressing the sense of the meeting. The committee having retired a short time, returned and submitted the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted: Whereas, that while this meet ing unqualifiedly approves the principles upon which the pres ent Administration has been con ducted by our patriotic President, Andrew Jackson, and feels the deepest solicitude that these prin ciples should be fully and firmly sustained by his successor it views with regret and indigna tion the unholy efforts made by a combination of heterogeneous parties under the denomination of "Whigs," to wrest the choice of the next President from the peo ple efforts which the unanimity and then consider what it will t resist anil dcieat: thereiore, be if you follow the advice I give you. Your friend, Signed, ANDREW JACKSON. SATURDAY, APHIL 1 1, 1835. Town Affairs. On .Monday last, Jus. R. Lloyd, Eq. was elected Magistrate of Police and, Spencer D. Cotten, Danford Richards, George Howard, Na than II. Rountrce, and Michael Hearn, Commissioners of the town of Tarborough, for the en suing year. Convention Election The following is the official state of the Poll, in the several districts in this county, against and for a Convention; Districts. Jleainst. For. 1. Tarboro', 59 2. Spicer's, 71 Armstrong's, 97 Barnes's, Gl Sharpens, 51 Saratoga, S5 Barterfield, Gl Sparta, G2 Robertson's, 40 Bulluck's, 47 Harrell's, 4,'i Harper's, 33 Parker's, G3 14. Logsboro', 23 15. Cherry's, 54 16. Mailer's, 37 17. Gardner's, 49 3. 4. . 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. IS o 0 0 3 G 0 5 3 0 o 5 1 1 0 3 S 939 in G 15 40 26 73 76 12G6 CONVENTION RETURNS. For. Jlg'st. Ldgecombe county, 57 IMartm, Pitt, in party Beaufort, do. Nash, Franklin, Warren, Rowan, Davidson, in part, 721 Jvieck Jen burg, 1045 Salem, ojg Guilfoid,7j?tfr, mo Cumberland Co. 555 Bladen, 29 Robeson, 79 Orange, 164S S;dem, (in Stokes) 21G Sampson, q Moore, 498 Wake, 370 New Hanover, 125 939 600 511 690 6S5 676 439 o 37 113 29 139 207 420 4S3 111 29 520 22 901 505 Resolved, That for the purpose of ensuring harmony and unity ol action in the approaching Presi dential election, we concur with our Democratic brethren in other parts of the Union, in the proprie ty and expediency of sending delegates to a National Conven tion, to assemble in Baltimore on the 20th May next. Resolved, That we recommend to the Democratic citizens of the other counties composing this Congressional district, that they elect delegates to meet in Con vention at Washington, in Beau fort county, on Tuesday, the 2Sth April, in order to appoint a dele gate to represent this district in said National Couvention. Resolved, That Willis Wil kins, Benj. Sharpe, and Ed. D. Macnair, Esqs. be appointed by this meeting, (with power to fill vacancies,) to confer with the dele gates from the other counties. Resolved, That this meeting nominate Gen. L. D. Wilson, as a suitable person to represent the district in said National Conven tion. Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be signed hy the Chairman and Secretary, and that the Editors of the Globe, N. C. Standard, Washington Whig, and Tarboro' Press, be requested to publish them. Resolved, That the thanks of this meeting be tendered to the Chairman and Secretary thereof. 24th Congress, iM t have elected, is "i 9; Oi islrahon, Doubtful. 1. It is stated, i,lt has assured the Koiii,, lion that he will ' congress togeth,.,. her next, if at ail bc!'un' lar period. 07 We nndtrst.,n.l ,;. Bragg, Esq. of t,j, been invited by t he s 1 War, from this State tV-" one of the Hoard of y ensuing General i;Xril; the Cadets attached t in states Military Ae.;Uie'; Point. The Examina!;,, "'J.. the meeting aci- Un motion, journed. Spencer L. Hart. Ch'n. Geo Howard, Sec'y. CTThe National Intelligencer says that the President of the United States has been more or less indisposed in health for the last week. The same paper states that at the Circuit Court of Washington now m sessions, a bill of indict ment has been found against Rich ard Lawrence, for an assault upon Gen. Jackson, with intent to kill. Friday next has been fixed upon as the day for trial of the indictment. New-Hampshire elections in this state ernor, members d"CoiiX the Jackson ticket h;,Ss IVm. Badger is re-elected" ernor; and Samutl (;u,. M. Bean, Franklin Weeks and Kobtrt Ihrh' bers of Congress. Petersburg Market, ,j Cotton receipt srnaiu, and those for borne ue s.; being too high for forei.' we quote 1 5i a 16 cis.- Progress of the Ports rjV Roanoke Rail Ro(ul.r from the Norfolk Htra'd Road is complete to tie ' way river, except the down of the Iron Kails, v, progressing at the rate of 4: day, and the Road will (or the passage of Carst; river by the first of Mi. 42 miles will have tatn ;; The bridge across the N. is nearly completed. (IWe have lizard cf ii . freezing "down east" ;i i; from the tea kettles, btittii even a priming to the U: from the west. "The Illinois Gazettenai' sonville News says: One; drivers from Peoria to S: field had one of his e ves : out. This was caused U ing a mask with eyelet hcit. which the action of the wis: concentrated on the eye, ar; troyed its power of vision."' ter wl ow Wl! do fro stn fin o jji br; vai Tii to dei er poi tra imj sta dii to in a wi the 241 of Mr lett for dai ten be ito out ant on cei no V st a lias Fa be she fro upi stn se lar in six the soi xvh he lor th( frc do fin ad tlx be FOR THE TARROUO PRESS. At a meeting of a portion nf iho democratic citizens 0. the eminii of Edgecombe, held at the Court House on Saturday the Hh April to take into consideration the pro! piiety of sending a delegate to the National Convention about to av semble at Baltimore Spencer L Hart, Ksq. was called to the Chair, and Geo. Howard appoin ted Secretary. At !he rcqueM of the Chairman, Gen. Louis J) GTWe observe it is stated and presume correctly, that it is Mr. Uenj. C. Howard, of Bal timore. nrifl nr 1 T T" xr. . . V4 i.u, :ur ixives, 01 Virginia, who has been associated with Mr. Rush, by the Executive, to go to me vest, to endeavor to adjust ooundary diluculty between nio and Michigan. JYat. Int. The Twenty Fourth Congress. The following states have elect ed members to the 24th congress viz. Maine 8, New-Hampshire 5,' Vermont 5, Massachusetts 12 New-York 40, Neiv-Jersey G, Pennsylvania 28, Ohio 19. Illi nois 3, Delawre 1, South Carolina f, Georgia 9, Louisiana 3, Mak incr a tntot fiaQ ti, rii . jl lie JIHIOYV- '"g states have yet to elect viz. April, Rhode Island 2, Con necticut G, and Virginia 21; in llay, Mississippi 2; in August, Indiana 7, Missouri 2, Kentucky 13, North-Carolina 13, Alabama and Tennessee 13; in October Maryland 8. Making a total of 03 to be elected. The political complexion of the A mail Robber acncl-i-gentleman, an actor in ihn has communicated to a irk this place, under date tn the following facts. That 5- el Smith. Bar HeeDer. far.: learn from others, Deputy : Master also) at Cumte:' Court House, was arrested ' 17th inst. at Powhatan i House where, on the I8tli, k to be tried, on a charge ot' bing the U. S. Mail, auhef place. A large package,!' ally sealed, of Letters from t etteville, North Carolina found in his trunk, broktn f? He had broken open and L out the contents of a double $7G5, which "were found e possession. The remaining ters were laid aside it is supp for a more leisure exaroiw'- He had been latelv seen, ate- ent times, with several um dollars in his possession' 1 letter writer himself saw I:?' short time since with hand. He would have br rested at that lime, but cumstances and employment unknown to those who were the look out for the culprit, are informed that Smith some time ago, a Stage Drive-' the Buckingham rom Ipnrn l C.M.'c JelfC- was effected throuiih the skill J' , address of Mr. John M. Andj x,e Hichmon citv Post office, ct; t under a commission from U';' M. General. Vanville J-Ji, th en M fifi 8 Hi Ju be ful ha in! lif thi fat se pr th th. cii bu loi frc ley (C CO en wh lie. VaJ Gamhlinrr Ttip bill for :l,a, entire suppressing of Ganib' ing Houses in Louisiana, has p.- xvh the Legislature of that state, the become a law. The Bee ot 1 oth 1 1 til sa's, it was concurred m-hai the House of Represents npc J unanimously. The Keen-?'
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