commissioners said: "Congress is now the sovereign of all onr point out to you on the map. They nor anything else which belongs to country which we now want none of your lands, you; and as an carnest of their regard for you, we propose to enter into articles of a treaty perfectly eqnal and conformable to what we ow tell you. ** * This humane and generous act of the United States wl no doubt be received by you with gladness, and held in grateful remembrance; and the more so, AS many of your young men, and the greater number of your warriors, during the late war, wcre our encmics, and assisted the King of Grcat Britain iu his cndeavors to conquer our coun- try."

The chiefs complained bitterly of the eneroachments of white settlers upou lands which lhad been by old treaties distinctly served to the Cherokees. They demanderl that some of these settlers should be removed; and when tlie commissioners said that the settlers were too numerous for the Government to re- ге- move, one of the chiefs asked, satirically, "Are Congress, who conquered the King of Great Britain, unable to remove those people "

Finally, the chiefs agreed to accept payment for the lands which had been taken. New boundaries were establislhed, and a general feeling of good-wl and confidence was created. Ono notable feature in this council was the speech of an Indian woman, called the "war-woman of Chota," (Chota was the Cherokees' city of refuge. All murderers were safe so long as they lived in Chota. Even Englishmen had not disdained to take advantage of its shelter; one English trader who had killed an Indian, having fled, lived there for many months, lis own house being but a short distance away. After a time he resolved to return home, but the headmen of the tribe assured him that, though he was entircly safe there, he would surely be killed if he left the town.) The chief who brought this "war-woman " to the council introduced her as "one of our beloved