arrangement for their
permanent settlement. Under the treaty of New Echota, in 1835, the
Cherokee were entitled, besides the lump sum of five million dollars
for the lands ceded, to an additional compensation for the improve-
ments which they were forced to abandon and for spoliations by white
citizens, together with a per capita allowance to cover the cost of
removal and subsistence for one year in the new country. The twelfth
article had also provided that such Indians as chose to remain in the
East and become citizens there might do so under certain conditions.
i Charley's story as here given is from the author's personal information, derived chiefly from con-
versations with Colonel Thomas and with Wasitu'na and other old Indians. An ornate but some
u hat inaccurate account is given also in Lanman's Letters from theAlleghany Mountains, written on
the ground ten years after the events deseribed. The leading lactsare noted in General Scott's official
dispatches.
PURCHASE OF Ql AM. A KI--I IM \TI<>.\- 1842 L59
cadi head of a family thus remaining to be confirmed in a preemption
right i" L60 acres. In consequence of the settled purpose of President
Jackson to deport e\ cry Indian, this permission was canceled and sup
plementary articles substituted by which some additional compensation
was allowed in lieu of the promised preemptions and all individual
reservations granted under previous treaties. 1 Every Cherokee was
thus made a landless alien in his original country.
The last party of emigrant Cherokee had started for the West in
December, L838. Nine months afterwards the refugees still scattered
about in the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee were reported
to number L,046. ! By