Mississippi, pursuant to the treaty of 1819.  It was well known that a deadly enmity existed between the Osages and Cherokees, and that any proximity of the two people, would inevitably lead to fatal results; yet, with this knowledge, the executive government placed those Cherokees in the country lying between the Arkansaw and Red rivers, immediately joining the territory of the Osages. It is unnecessary to state that the result was as anticipated—­they daily committed outrages upon the persons and properties of each other, and the death of many warriors, on both sides, ensued.

The sympathy expressed in that part of the Message relating to the Indians, if expressed with sincerity, would do much honour to the feelings that dictated it; but when we come to examine the facts, and investigate the implied allegations, we shall find that they are most gratuitous; and, consequently, that the regret of the president at the probable fate of the Indian, should he remain east of the Mississippi, is grossly hypocritical.  He says, “surrounded by the whites, with their arts of civilization, which, by destroying the resources of the savage, doom him to weakness and decay:[17] the fate of the Mohegan, the Narragansett, and the Delaware, is fast overtaking the Choctaw, the Cherokee, and the Creek.  That this fate surely awaits them, if they remain within the limits of the States, does not admit of a doubt.  Humanity and national honour demand that every effort should be made to avert so great a calamity.”  From what facts the president has drawn these conclusions does not appear.  Neither the statements of the Cherokees, nor of the Indian agents, nor the report of the secretary of war, furnish any such information; on the contrary, with the exception of one or two agents at Washington, all give the most flattering accounts of advancement in civilization.  The Rev. Samuel A. Worcester, in his letter to the Rev. E.S.  Ely, editor of the “Philadelphian,” completely refutes all the unfavourable statements that have been got up to cover the base conduct of Jackson and the slavites.  This gentleman has resided for the last four years among the Cherokees, and has surely had abundant means of observing their condition.

The letter of David Brown (a Cherokee), addressed, September 2, 1825, to the editor of “The Family Visitor,” at Richmond, Virginia, states, that “the Cherokee plains are covered with herds of cattle—­sheep, goats, and swine, cover the valleys and hills—­the plains and valleys are rich, and produce Indian corn, cotton, tobacco, wheat, oats, indigo, sweet and Irish potatoes, &c.  The natives carry on a considerable trade with the adjoining states, and some of them export cotton in boats down the Tennessee to the Mississippi, and down that river to New Orleans.  Orchards are common—­cheese, butter, &c. plenty—­houses of entertainment are kept by natives.  Cotton and woollen cloths are manufactured in the nation, and almost every family