- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Communication] 1822 Dec. 3, Executive Department, Milledgeville, Georgia to the Senate and House of Representatives [of Georgia ?] / John Clark
- Creator:
- Georgia. Governor (1819-1823 : Clark)
- Date of Original:
- 1822-12-03
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Land tenure
Creek Indians--Land tenure - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- proposals
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- Communication dated December 3, 1822 from John Clark, Governor of Georgia (1819-1823) to the state (?) legislature wherein Clark recommends that Georgia delegates to Congress press for the United States' fulfillment of the Georgia Compact of 1802. In 1802 President Jefferson promised to effect the extinguishment of all indigenous peoples' titles to land within the limits of Georgia in a peaceable and reasonable manner. Governor Clark argues that the U.S. should promptly fulfill the terms of the agreement, particularly because he believes that the Indians -- such as the Creeks living along the southern border of Georgia -- are a threat to the frontier of the state.
Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the Digital Library of Georgia in 2001, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. - Local Identifier:
- tcc481
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc481
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc481#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc481/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Telamon Cuyler, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 2 pages/leaves
- Original Collection:
- Manuscript held by the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, Telamon Cuyler, box 48, folder 07, document 04.
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
-
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Executive Department Georgia Milledgeville
3d. [3rd] December 1822
To the Honble. [Honorable] The Senate, and House of Representatives,
I consider it my duty again to bring [added text: to ] the attention of the Legislature the subject of an existing contract between this State, and the Government of the United States. This subject becomes the more important when we take into view the length of time it has been pending and the increasing obstacles to its final adjustment. It has now been twenty years since the articles of Treaty and cession were entered into by the contracting parties. A large portion of this time had lapsed before we discovered any effort on the part of the Union to comply with her engagements. Within a few years, the just demands of the State have been met by a more becoming punctuality, and some advances have been made towards a fulfilment [fulfillment] of the contract. This however forms no sufficient inducement to discontinue our importunities. We are in the pursuit of a just right, which ought not and can not be resisted. The best period for easy compliance on the part of the United States has passed by, and the present difficulties are of an increasing character. The tribes of Indians within our limits are loosing their spirit of emigration and show a greater indifference to make sales of their
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territory. This feeling may be propitious to civilization, but it had as well be indulged upon soil to which the General Government has a better title. It is understood that about one fourth of the Creeks are below the Florida line. When that territory is reduced to the complete jurisdiction of the whites these hoards [hordes] by which we have been already so much annoyed, will be thrown upon our borders. This state of things should if possible, be averted, as well for the tranquility of the frontier, as for the permanent interests of Georgia. It can not be so well effected, as by extending our settlements. To do this will require a vigorous cooperation on the part of the General and State Governments. Georgia can not be averse to the effort, and the Union, if properly called on, must feel bound to respond.
I therefore recommend that the Legislature call the attention of the General Government to this subject, and that our delegation be requested to press it upon the consideration of Congress at their present session; and this I do under the pursuasion [persuasion] that the General Government will render to each State what is right and just, and what, in this case, obviously tends to the advancement of the general good.
[Signed] John Clark