Speech #430045207

It does this. if the Senator will pardon me. because it may be a difibrence in phraseology. we may hav the same thing in our respective minds: it does forgive these Indians. but forgives them upo the terms that we now tuake a fresh settlement of all affairs. that they agree to ascertain in a certain way what seam of money maystand to their credit and that that is to be invested in the registered stockof tlie United States. That is what it does. and for oito I must be excused from otig to take any money fron the Treasury to ptay ]eotlowho may be hunted up as descendants of the Indiaas who enaigrated West of the Mississippi tander that old treaty. If there are any recent caes ovhcre Indians have gone. then I say the treaty does not provide for them at all. and they arc no more cntitled to have somebody gather up their claitms and speculate out of them or to have the money themselves. than I should be if I chose to emigrate beyond the Mississippi. because the treaty of 1835. the eighth article. hcoig since exhasted itself ot the sabject of the removal bythe United States of these Indians. It spoaks of a thing then to be done and of the fact that the United States were to remove them iia a body. mading a special exception of TIdians aho were then ablo to remove temoselves and to commute for the inouitl which they shudd have for it. Forty years have gone by. and it is said that front time to tittle afterward. and some within ab fea years. a Cherokee in North Carolina. or Georgia. or Mississippi. or wierever le may have happened to be. has gone west of the Mississippi. and is therefore entitled under the treaty.