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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER V. GEORGIA'S GROWING DEMAND FOR INDIAN LANDS Georgia, meanwhile, as her population increased and spread from the coast plain up the fertile river valleys, year by year pushing back the line of the frontier further into the highlands, found an ever growing demand on the part of her citizens for the removal of the aborigines. The Creeks and Cherokees, particularly, they regarded as serious obstacles to progress. By 1823 demand for their removal from the state had become insistent. The Federal Government in 1802 had entered into an agreement with Georgia to extinguish, for her use, the Indian title to land lying within the state as soon as it could be done on peaceable and reasonable terms.1 A select committee, of which George R. Gilmer2 was chairman, submitted a report to the House of Representatives on January 7'1822, on the question whether or not the United States was keeping-her part of the compact. It was the opinion of the committee that she was not so doing.3 As a matter of fact the largest Indian cessions had been obtained in other states, where, as soon as the natives relinquished their title to the land, it became part of the public domain. Acting on the report of the Gilmer committee, Congress appropriated $30,000 for the extinguishment of Indian land titles within the limit of Georgia,4 and Calhoun promptly appointed a commissioner to negotiate with the Cherokees for a cession of a part or all of their eastern land. The Cherokee Council, hearing of this action of Congress, passed a resolution in its autumn cession, declaring unanimously, the determination to hold no more treaties with the United States for the purpose of making cessions of lands, being resolved not to dispose of even one foot of ground. But upon any question, not relating to a land cess...
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