the
mountains and it could not be for long. 3 About 1828 gold was found
on Ward's creek, a western branch of Chestatee, near the present
Dahlonega. 4 and the doom of the nation was sealed (11).
1 Monroe, message to the Senate, with Calhoun's report, March 30, 1824, American State Papers:
Indian Affairs, II, pp. 460, 462, 1834.
2 Royce, Cherokee Nation, Fifth Ann. Rep. Bureau of Ethnology, pp. 241, 242, 1888.
3 Personal information from J. D. Warlord.
4 Nitze, H. B. C. , in Twentieth Annual Report United States Geological Survey, part 6 (Mineral
Resources), p. 112,1899.
hookey] EXTENSION OF GEORGIA LAWS —1830 117
In November, L828, Andrew Jackson was elected to succeed John
Quinoy Adams as President. He was a frontiersman and Indian bater,
and the change boded no good to the ( Jherokee. His position waswe'd
understood, and there is good ground for believing thai the action at
once taken by Georgia was at bis own suggestion. 1 On December 20,
1828, a month after his election, Georgia passed an act annexing thai
part of the Cherokee countrj within her chartered limits and extending
over it her jurisdiction; all laws and customs established among the
Cherokee were declared null and void, and no person of Indian Mood
or descent residing within the Indian country was henceforth to he
allowed as a witness or party in any suit where a white man should be
defendant. The act was to take effect June 1. L830 (42). The whole
territory was soon after mapped out into counties and surveyed by
state surveyors into •'land lots" of L60 acres each, and "gold lots" of
40 acres, which were put