which continued for
several years until abandoned for lack of funds. 8
Notwithstanding the promise to the Cherokee in the treaty of 1798
that the Government would "continue the guarantee of the remain-
der of their country forever." measures were begun almost imme-
diately to procure another large cession of land and road privileges.
In spite of the strenuous objection of the Cherokee, who sent a
delegation of prominent chiefs to Washington to protest against any
further sales, such pressure was brought to hear, chiefly through the
efforts of the agent, Colonel Meigs, that the object of the Government
was accomplished, and in L804 and 1805 three treaties were negotiated
at Tellico agency, by which the Cherokee were shorn id' more than
eight thousand square miles of their remaining territory.
By the first of these treaties October 24, 1804 — aof live thousand dollars in
goods or cash with an additional annuity of one thousand dollars. By
the other treaties — October 25 and u'7. L805 — a large tract was obtained
in central Tennessee and Kentucky, extending between the Cumber-
land range and the western line of the Hopewell treaty, and from
Cumberland river southwest to Duck river. One section was also
secured at Southwest point (now Kingston, Tennessee) with the design
of establishing there the state capital, which, however, was located at
Nashville instead seven years later. Permission was also obtained for
two mail roads through the Cherokee country into Georgia and Ala-
bama. In consideration of the cessions by the two treaties the United
States agreed to pay fifteen thousand six hundred dollars in working
implements, goods, orcash, with an additional annuity of three thousand
dollars. To secure