- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- Letter, 1825 Jan. 31, Columbia, S[outh] C[arolina to] George M. Troup, [Governor of Georgia], Milledgeville, Geo[rgia] / Duncan G. Campbell
- Creator:
- Campbell, Duncan Green, 1787-1828
- Date of Original:
- 1825-01-31
- Subject:
- Creek Indians--Treaties
Indian agents
McIntosh, William, approximately 1775-1825 - Location:
- United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434
- Medium:
- official reports
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- Duncan G. Campbell, a commissioner appointed by the United States to treat with the Creek Nation, writes to Georgia Governor George M. Troup (1823-1827) on January 31, 1825 to report on his recent activities in Washington, D.C. Campbell explains that he was detained in the capital while deliberating over negotiation procedures with the Executive Cabinet. Although Campbell was denied his request to treat with a divided council of the Creeks, he is optimistic about negotiations with the Nation because the United States did agree to grant all of his other applications. Troup is informed that talks between Campbell and the Creeks will resume on February 7, 1825 at Indian Springs in the Creek Nation. (The fraudulent Treaty of Indian Springs was signed on February 12, 1825 by a faction of Creeks aligned with the Creek leader William McIntosh.)
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:
- tcc491
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc491
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc491#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc491/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:
- 3 pages/leaves
- Original Collection:
- Manuscript held by the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, Telamon Cuyler, box 48, folder 12, document 01.
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
-
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Columbia -- S.C.
31st. Jany [January] 1825.
Sir --
My return to Georgia has been protracted to a much later period than I intended or had any reason to expect. The delay at the City was occasioned by the course taken by the Executive of the U. States upon the subject of the negotiation pending with Creeks. This course made it necessary that I should hold a correspondence with the Secretary of War prepatory [preparatory] to a special message which the President proposed making to Congress in relation to this exigency in particular and to Indian emigration generally --
The application which I submitted, for authority to hold a Treaty with a divided Council of the Creeks, was not expressly granted. Such [document damaged] by a decision of the Cabinet was held to be incompatible with the laws of Nations and Indian usage. Every other facility however was promptly afforded. The Sub-Agent has been removed -- The Agent himself placed completely under our Control, and our instructions so extended and liberalized as to authorize the most sanguine expectations of
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success. The negotiation will be renewed at the Indian Springs on the
7th Feb. Orders to this effect were issued and forwarded from Washington City.
I should have reached Georgia five days earlier but for a snow storm in Virginia, the heaviest I ever incountered [encountered] . But for this loss of time, an opportunity would have been afforded me of making this communication more full. I now write under the most disadvantageous circumstances to which a stage passenger can be subjected --
With great consideration, I have the honor to be Yr. obt. Sert. [Your obedient Servant]
[Signed] Duncan G Campbell
His Excellency George M. Troup Milledgeville Geo. [Georgia]
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Letter
D. [Duncan] G. Campbell
Jany [January] 31. 1825
subject Indian Treaty
Comd. to the Legislature
23 May 1825.