In 1837 General Wool wrote from the Cherokee country that the people "uniformly declare that they never madc the treaty in question. sition that not one of all those who were present, and voted in tbe council held but a day poor or destitute, would reccive cither rations or clothing from the United States, lest they might compromise themselves in regard to the treaty. These same people, the monntains of North Carolina, during the summer past pre- ferred living on the roots and sap of trees rather than reccive provisions from the United States. Thousands, I have been So determincd are they in their opp0- or two since at this place, however as well as thosc in informed, had no other food for weeks."

For two years to the very last moment allowed them by the treaty they clung to their lands, and at last were removed only by inilitary force. In May, 1838, General Scott was or- dered to go with a sufficient military force to eompel the re- moval. Ilis proclamation "to the Cherokee people renaining in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessec, and Alabama" opens thus:

CHEROKEES,-The President of the United Statcs has sent powerful army to cause you, in obedience to the join tat part of your people who are al me wit a treaty of 1835, to ready established on the other side of the Mississippi. Unhap- pily the two years which were allowed for the purpose you have suffered to pass away without following, and without mak ing any preparation to follow; and now, or this solemn address shall rcach your distant settlements, the emigration mnst be commenced in haste, but I hope without disorder. I ave no power, by granting correet the error that yon have committed May is already passed away every Cherokee man, woman, and child in those States must be in motion to join their brethren in the West." by the time that a further delay, to The full-moon of on the wanc, and before another shall have

The tone of this proclamation, at once firm and kindly, could not fail to profoundly impress the unfortunate people to whom