Farewell Address
09/18/1796
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It contains a regular, full, and definitive relinquishment on the part of the Creek Nation of the Oconee land.
It therefore appears to be important to form a secret article of a treaty similar to the one which accompanies this message.
Will such an article be proper?
The trade of the Indians is a main mean of their political management.