Register of Debates in Congress Volume 5; Comprising the Leading Debates and Incidents of the Second Session of the Eighteenth Congress [Dec. 6, 1824, to the First Session of the Twenty-Fifth Congress, Oct. 16, 1837] Together with an Appendix, Containing (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 Excerpt: ...between all the parties was correct, he thought there could be no difficulty as to the disposition ofkwhit should remain of the two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, after satisfying all the Georgia claimants. Mr. G. said that he would proceed to show that the United States' Government had not done justice to the citizens of Georgia in its adjudication of their demands against the Creek Indians. They had been told that they should be satisfied, because that adjudication was made by an arbiter chosen by themselves. The proper answer to which, Mr. G. said was, that that circumstance aggravated the feelings excited by the injustice done them, especially as that arbiter had gained in proportion to their loss. This Government never can compensate the citizens of Georgia for the injuries they received from their savage neighbors. Those injuries could not be estimated in money. Mr. G. said that the most rigid rules had heen imposed by the Government upon itself, in allowing the claims of the citizens of Georgia. He did not intend to say that the Government intended thereby to do injustice to those citizens. He thought that the peculiar circumstances under which those claims had originated had never been considered by the Government. Had that heen done, he believed it would have been convinced that the two hundred and fifty thousand dollars was a very inadequate satisfaction of those claims. Mr. G. then proceeded to say, that, during the Revolutionary war, the inhahitants of Georgia were, at one time, almost entirely driven beyond its limits, by the Crcek Indians and their allies. At its conclusion, feelings of hostility had not ceased to exist. Repeated injuries were inflicted upon the frontier inhabitants, which the weakness of the State Government rendered it ...