which he blamed the missionaries
for the refusal of the Indians, declared that the state would not permit
them to become citizens, and that the Secretary must either assist the
state in taking possession of the Cherokee lands, or. in resisting that
occupancy, make war upon and shed the blood of brothers and friends.
The Georgia delegation in Congress addressed a similar letter to Presi-
dent Monroe, in which the government was censured for ha\ ing
instructed the Indians in the arts of civilized life and having therebj
imbued them with a de-ire to acquire property."
For answer the President submitted a report by Secretary Calhoun
showing that since the agreement had been made with Georgia in 1802
the government had. at its own expense, extinguished the Indian claim
to 24,600 square miles within the limits of that state, ormore than
three-fifths of the whole Indian claim, and had paid on that and other
accounts connected with the agreement nearly seven and a half million
'Cherokee correspondence 1823 and 1824, American State Papers: Indian Affairs, n, pp. 168 it::,
1834; Royce, Cherokee Nation, Fifth Ann. Rep. Bureau of Ethnology, pp. j 16 237, 1888.
'Cherokee memorial, February 11. 1824, in American State Papers: Indian Lffairs, a, pp. II I 194,
1834 Royce, op cit, p J 17
i Letters of Governor Troup of Georgia, February 28, 1824, and of Georgia delegates, March 10,1824,
American State Papers Indian Affairs, n. pp. 475, 177, 1834; Royce, op. cit., pp. 287, 238.
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116 MYTHS OF THE CHEROKEE [eth.ann.19
dollars, of which by far the greater part had gone to Georgia or her
citizens. In regard to the other criticism the report