How that treaty can be made the basis of raising an obligation on the part of the United States for the classes of people who are mentioned in the amendment is. I confess. entirely incomprehensible to me. because the amendment says. "being all of those Cherokees who removed west of the Mississippi prior to the&Cherokee treaty of December 29. 1835." That treaty provides for those removed under the treaty. These eople had gone on their own account because they foresaw apparently ut of course that is immaterial to this question) that the press of emigration was coming in. so that the best thing was to go off to this country that Congress in the state of the relations of the Indians had authorized them to emigrate to and settle upon. Then we come down to a later treaty. the treaty of 1846. referred to in this amendment. as to the modus of payment. This treaty of 1846 purportedI can not take time to read itrto provide for a "final and amicable settlement of the difficulties and claims before nientioned " and that is to say the beforementioned claims and difficulties were " serious difficulties" which had "existed between the different portions of the people constituting and recognized as the Cherokee Nation of Indians. which it is desirable should be speedily settled. so that peace and harmony may be restored among them. and whereas certain claims exist on the part of the Cherokee Nation. and portions of the Cherokee people. against the United States: Therefore. with a view to the final and amicable settlement of the difficulties and claims before mentioned. it is mutually agreed by the several parties to this convention. as follows." Then they go on. without making any claim or referring to any claim of this character. to mention ever so many other kinds of claims covering everything they could think of. as they knew them to exist on the part of these Indians. and providing how it shall be terminated. and then provide that the sums to be paid to settle those shall be paid by the United States in one way. per capita. to these individuals. or a certain portion of them.
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