1833 NEWSPAPER CHICKASAW INDIAN TREATY PONTOTOC CREEK

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LEE OXFORD BOOKS Original and Authentic 19th-Century Newspapers & Historical Books The Globe March 23, 1833 Washington DCU.S. TREATY WITH THE CHICKASAW INDIAN NATION CONCLUDED BY GENERAL JOHN COFFEE ON PONTITOCK CREEK DESCRIPTION: 4-page original newspaper in good condition - some tears at spine. Bright, durable and readable paper. Previously bound and separated. Approximately 14"x20.5". Excellent Front-Page/Back-Page Display! CONTENT: U.S. TREATY WITH THE CHICKASAW NATION CONCLUDED ON PONTITOCK CREEK BY GENERAL JOHN COFFEE - Complete on BACK PAGE, the THREE Articles of Agreement - Seen below is the complete text of this treaty - it's ratification by President Andrew Jackson on March 1, 1833 is also on the front page, though I do not provide the text below - approx. 120 Column Inches [NOTE - General John Coffee was a hero of the War of 1812 and a relative by marriage of President Andrew Jackson - he died in July of 1833.] Articles of a treaty made and entered into between Genl. John Coffee, being duly authorized tto, by the President of the United States, and the whole Chickasaw Nation, in General Council assembled, at the council House, on Pontitock Creek on the twentieth day of October, 1832. THE Chickasaw Nation find themselves oppressed in their present situation; by being made subject to the laws of the States in which they reside. Being ignorant of the language and laws of the white man, they cannot understand or obey them. Rather than submit to this great evil, they prefer to seek a home in the west, w they may live and be governed by their own laws. And believing that they can procure for themselves a home, in a country suited to their wants and condition, provided they had the means to contract and pay for the same, they have determined to sell their country and hunt a new home. The President has heard the complaints of the Chickasaws, and like them believes they cannot be happy, and prosper as a nation, in their present situation and condition, and being desirous to relieve them from the great calamity that seems to await them, if they remain as they are--He has sent his Commissioner Genl. John Coffee, who has met the whole Chickasaw nation in Council, and after mature deliberation, they have entered into the following articles, which shall be binding on both parties, when the same shall be ratified by the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. ARTICLE 1. For the consideration inafter expressed, the Chickasaw nation do by cede, to the United States, all the land which they own on the east side of the Mississippi river, including all the country w they at present live and occupy. ARTICLE 2. The United States agree to have the whole country thus ceded, surveyed, as soon as it can be conveniently done, in the same manner that the public lands of the United States are surveyed in the States of Mississippi and Alabama, and as soon tafter as may be practicable, to have the same prepared for sale. The President of the United States will then offer the land for sale at public auction, in the same manner and on the same terms and conditions as the other public lands, and such of the land as may not sell at the public sales shall be offered at private sale, in the same manner that other private sales are made of the United States lands. ARTICLE 3. As a full compensation to the Chickasaw nation, for the country thus ceded, the United States agree to pay over to the Chickasaw nation, all the money arising from the sale of the land which may be received from time to time, after deducting tfrom the whole cost and expenses of surveying and selling the land, including every expense attending the same. ARTICLE 4. The President being determined that the Chickasaw people shall not deprive themselves of a comfortable home, in the country w they now are, until they shall have provided a country in the west to remove to, and settle on, w... read more

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