Description: (eBay 133) 25th CONGRESS, 2d Session. [SENATE.] [121] DOCUMENTS IN RELATION TO THE VALIDITY OF THE CHEROKEE TREATY OF 1835. JANUARY 22, 1838. Sabmitted by Mr. Lumpkin, and ordered to be printed, and that 386 additional copies be fur- nished for the use of the Senate. Letters and other papers relating to Cherokee affairs: being a reply to sundry publications authorized by John Ross. By E. Boudinct, for- merly editor of the Cherokee Phœniz. TO THE PUBLIC. What is termed the "Cherokee question" may be considered in two points of view the controversy with the States and the General Govern- ment, and the controversy among the Cherokees themselves. The first has been agitated in so many ways, and before so many tribunals, that it is needless, for any good purpose, to remark upon it at this place. The latter is founded upon the question of a remedy, to extricate the Cherokees from their difficulties, in consequence of their conflict with the States. Upon this point, less has been said or known before the public, but it has not been the less interesting to the Cherokees. It is here where different views and different feelings have been excited. "What is to be done? was a natural inquiry, after we found that all our efforts to obtain redress from the General Government, on the land of our fathers, had been of no avail. The first rupture among ourselves was the moment we presumed to answer that question. To a portion of the Cherokee people it early became evident that the interest of their country- men, and the happiness of their posterity, depended upon an entire change of policy. Instead of contending uselessly against superior power, the only course left, was, to yield to circumstances over which they had no control. In all difficulties of this kind, between the United States and the Chero- kees, the only mode of settling them has been by treaties; consequently, when a portion of our people became convinced that no other measures would avail, they became the advocates of a treaty, as the only means to extricate the Cherokees from their perplexities; hence they were called the treaty party. Those who maintained the old policy, were known as the anti-treaty party. At the head of the latter has been Mr. John Ross. It would be to no purpose now to describe these Indian political parties, or to enter into a particular history of the rise, progress, and the present Blair & Rives, printers.
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