The appropriations were made in the annual appropriation bills from time to time. and this fund. having been created under a stipulation in the treaty. was under this section of the act embraced in its terms. Now. it cannot be disputed. and it will not be disputed. that this payment was actually made by the Government of the United States from the Creek orphan fend to these loyal refugees who were then suffering. If these payments were made. if this money was received. then even conceding the position taken by the Senator from Massachusetts. the Government has a right to charge to the annual appropriations of the Creek Indians. who were then at war with the United States. and forfeited all their rights to their annuities. the payments made to the Creek orphans. If this deficiency is tobe made up itisto be made up from the funds of the Creek Nation. not from the funds of the Government of the United States. because the Creek Nation were at war with the United States in violation of their treaty with us. they had forfeited all their rights. and if we were compelled to pay to support the loyal refugees of their nation. the refugees whom they had driven from their homes. then when we come to pay their annuities can they claim that we are obliged to pay them without reference to the credit to which we are entitled for the payment to the Creek orphans or the Creek orphan fund ?
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