from the Wednesday, July 21, 1819 issue of the MOBILE GAZETTE & COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER:
from the TUSCALOOSA REPUBLICAN OF JULY 1,
By a gentleman recently returned from the Tombeckbe we are informed, that Gen. Jackson has written to Meshuleetubbee, head chief of one of the three great divisions of the Choctaw nation, thro' the interpreter, Peachland, requesting to meet him at a time and place specified (when or where our informant did not learn) to hold a conference on the subject of the sale of part of their nation to the United States. When our informant left there, Meshuleetubbee and Peachland were on a tour through the District, to consult the other chiefs and head men on the subject: and the opinion was almost universal among the whites in the neighborhood, that the District will be ceded to the United States, either by sale or in exchange for lands on the Arkansaw- though not immediately.
We learn from another source, that a deputation of the Choctaw nation has visited the country on the Arkansaw, with a view to such an exchange, and made a very favorable report, both of the country and the quality of game. In consequence of which a great number of the Choctaws have expressed a willingness to exchange with the U.S. on the same terms as those granted to the Cherokees. The District embraces the Military Crossing of the Beckbe, where it has lately been determined, the great federal road from Nashville to New Orleans shall cross that river.
Mr. Meigs- Agent for the Cherokee Nation, has given public notice on the intruders on the Cherokee lands, that unless they remove off the said lands by the first of July, he shall apply to Gen. Jackson to remove them by military force. These intruders were ordered to leave the nation before the season of planting, and many did then remove; and proceeded to plant their crops- they therefore deserve the less commiseration.
from the TUSCALOOSA REPUBLICAN OF JULY 1,
By a gentleman recently returned from the Tombeckbe we are informed, that Gen. Jackson has written to Meshuleetubbee, head chief of one of the three great divisions of the Choctaw nation, thro' the interpreter, Peachland, requesting to meet him at a time and place specified (when or where our informant did not learn) to hold a conference on the subject of the sale of part of their nation to the United States. When our informant left there, Meshuleetubbee and Peachland were on a tour through the District, to consult the other chiefs and head men on the subject: and the opinion was almost universal among the whites in the neighborhood, that the District will be ceded to the United States, either by sale or in exchange for lands on the Arkansaw- though not immediately.
We learn from another source, that a deputation of the Choctaw nation has visited the country on the Arkansaw, with a view to such an exchange, and made a very favorable report, both of the country and the quality of game. In consequence of which a great number of the Choctaws have expressed a willingness to exchange with the U.S. on the same terms as those granted to the Cherokees. The District embraces the Military Crossing of the Beckbe, where it has lately been determined, the great federal road from Nashville to New Orleans shall cross that river.
Mr. Meigs- Agent for the Cherokee Nation, has given public notice on the intruders on the Cherokee lands, that unless they remove off the said lands by the first of July, he shall apply to Gen. Jackson to remove them by military force. These intruders were ordered to leave the nation before the season of planting, and many did then remove; and proceeded to plant their crops- they therefore deserve the less commiseration.
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