last Congress, it has been proved that the said treaty has becn entircly disregarded by the white peoplo inhabiting the fron tiers, styling themselves the State of Franklin. The procced- ings of Congress on the Ist of September, 1788, and the proc- lamation they then issncd on this subjeet, will show thcir scnsc of the many unprovoked outrages committed against the Cherokees.

"The information contained in the papers marked C., from Colonel Joscplı Martin, the late agent to the Cherokees, and Richard Winn, Esq., will further evince the deplorable situation of the Cherokees, and the indispensable obligation of the United States to vindicate their faith, justice, and national dignity.

"The letter of Mr. Winn, the late superintendent, of the 1st of March, informs tliat a treaty will be held with the Cher okces on the third Monday of May, at the Upper War-ford on French Broad River. But it is to be observed that the time for which both he and Colonel Joscph Martin, the agent to the Cherokees and Chickasaws, were elected has cxpired, and there fore they are not authorized to act on the part of the Union. If the commissioners appointed by North Carolina, South Car olina, and Georgia, by virtne of the resolve of Congress of the 26th of October, 1787, shonld attend the said treaty, their pro- ceedings thercon may soon be expected. But, as part of the Cherokecs have taken refuge within the limits of the Creeks, it is highly probable they will be under the same direction; and, thereforc, as the fact of the violation of the treaty cannot be disputed, and as the commissioners have not power to re- place the Cherokees within the limits established in 1785, it is not probable, even if a treaty should be held, as stated by Mr. Winn, that the resnlt would be satisfactory."

This is the summing up of the situation. The details of it are to be read in eopious volumes of the early history of Tennessee, North and South Carolina, and Goorgia-all under the head of "Indian Atroeities." To very few who read those