We have contracted with the State of Georgia to extinguish the title to the Indian lands lying within that state, and at the same time have stipulated with the Creeks and Cherokees that they should hold their lands forever.
Adams outlines the contradictory agreements made regarding Indian lands in Georgia, emphasizing the complexity of the situation.
Share
More from Josiah Quincy
If there is a Bostonian who ever sailed from his own harbor for distant lands, or returned to it from them, without feelings, at the sight of the Blue Hills, which he is unable to express, his heart is differently constituted from mine.
But circumstances will do more than any negotiation.
I adhere to the right of petition; and let me say here that, let the petition be, as the gentleman from Virginia has stated, from free negroes, prostitutes, as he supposes,--for he says there is one put on this paper, and he infers that…
With a tolerable share of common sense, I hope, in America, to be independent and free.
Other voices in this conversation
