[314] See Fort Gibson treaty, 1833, p. 142. [↑]
[315] See New Echota treaty, 1835, and Fort Gibson treaty, 1833, Indian Treaties, pp. 633–648 and 561–565, 1837; also, for full discussion of both treaties, Royce, Cherokee Nation, Fifth Ann. Rep. Bureau of Ethnology, pp. 249–298. For a summary of all the measures of pressure brought to bear upon the Cherokee up to the final removal see also Everett, speech in the House of Representatives, May 31, 1838; the chapters on “Expatriation of the Cherokees,” Drake, Indians, 1880; and the chapter on “State Rights—Nullification,” in Greeley, American Conflict, I, 1864. The Georgia side of the controversy is presented in E. J. Harden’s Life of (Governor) George M. Troup, 1849. [↑]
[316] Royce, op. cit., p. 289. The Indian total is also given in the Report of the Indian Commissioner, p. 369, 1836. [↑]
[317] Royce, Cherokee Nation, op. cit., pp. 283, 284; Report of Indian Commissioner, pp. 285, 286, 1836. [↑]
[318] Quoted by Royce, Cherokee Nation, op. cit., pp. 284–285; quoted also, with some verbal differences, by Everett, speech in House of Representatives on May 31, 1838. [↑]
[319] Quoted in Royce, op. cit., p. 286. [↑]
[320] Letter of General Wool, September 10, 1836, in Everett, speech in House of Representatives, May 31, 1838. [↑]
[321] Letter of June 30, 1836, to President Jackson, in Everett, speech in the House of Representatives, May 31, 1838. [↑]
[322] Quoted by Everett, ibid.; also by Royce, Cherokee Nation, op. cit., p. 286. [↑]
[323] Letter of J. M. Mason, jr., to Secretary of War, September 25, 1837, in Everett, speech in House of Representatives, May 31, 1838; also quoted in extract by Royce, op. cit., pp. 286–287. [↑]