Excerpt from Speech of Mr. James Graham, of North Carolina: On the Bill Making an Appropriation to Prevent and Suppress Indian Hostilities, Delivered in the House of RepresentativesIn the year 1835 the Cherokee chiefs sold by treaty all their lands east of the Mississippi river to the United States, for the gross sum of five millions six hundred thousand dollars, and agreed, on or before the 23d day of May, 1838, to remove west of the Mississippi river, to an extensive territory allotted to them by different compacts, and embracing, by computation, thirteen millions eight hundred thousand acres of land. It is now alleged here in debate that this treaty is fraudulent and void, and that the appropriation now demanded to execute it, and preserve the peace, ought to be withheld or suspended until we pronounce that treaty fair or foul, good or bad.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy.

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