that he would not consent to selling the lands for $1000 a ycar. It would not buy a breceh-clout for each of my nation; which was literally true

To this additional annuity the Senate consented, and with were "perfectly satisfied." But they begged for the plonghs, hocs, cattle, etc., which had becn prom ised in the treaty. They said, "Game is going fast away from corn and raise cattle, and we want this the chiefs said they We must plant among us you to assist us."

In 1794 it was necessary to make another treaty, chiefly to doclare that the IIolston treaty was in " full forco and binding." of misunderstandings," it was said. This was vory true; white settlers had gone where they pleased, as if it did not exist; Cherokees had murderod them, as they were, by their treaty, It bad not been "fuly carried into execution by reason explicitly permitted to do. The whites had retaliated by unprovoked attacks on retaliated again. The exasperated Indians implored Congress to protect them the still more of Congress to protect them. The Seerctary of War writes despairingly, that "The dosires of too many frontier white people to seize by force or fraud on the neighboring Indian fricndly Indians, and the Indians had exasperated whites deinanded canse of jealonsy and lands continues to be an mnceasing hatred on the part of the Indians; and it would appear, upon a calm investigation, that until the Indians can be quieted on this point, and rely with confidence on the protection of their lands by the United States, no well-grounded hope of tranquillity can be entertained."

In this miserable manner, unjust eqnally to the white men and to the Indians, affairs went on for sereral years, until in 1801 it became absolutely necessary that in some way a definite understanding of boundaries, and an autlhoritative enforcement of rights on both sides, should be brought about; aecordingly commissioners were sent by the President "to obtain the con-