1830 newspaper CHEROKEE INDIAN DELEGATION refuses GEORGIA offer toTAKE theirLAND - $50 - (Oxford, MD)

Beat 1830 display newspaper with a front page letter from the CHEROKEE INDIAN DELEGATION refusing GEORGIA 's offer to TAKE over their ANCESTRAL LANDS and move them west of the Mississippi River - inv # 2P-235 Please visit our EBAY STORE for THOUSANDS of HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS on sale or at auction. SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the Torchlight and Public Advertiser (Hagerstown, MD) dated Dec 30, 1830. This newspaper contains a front page headline: "CHEROKEE DELEGATION" with the printing of a letter signed in type by the chiefs of the CHEROKEE INDIAN DELEGATION to Washington, DC. The Cherokee Indian delegation says it will not cede its lands in Georgia to the State of Georgia. This was the Cherokee Indian attempt to avoid its removal to lands west of the Mississippi River. During the first decades of the 19th century, Georgia focused on removing the Cherokee's neighbors, the Lower Creek. The Georgia Governor George Troup and his cousin William McIntosh, chief of the Lower Creek, signed the Treaty of Indian Springs (1825), ceding the last Muscogee (Creek) lands claimed by Georgia. The state's northwestern border reached the Chattahoochee, the border of the Cherokee Nation. In 1829, gold was discovered at Dahlonega, on Cherokee land claimed by Georgia. The Georgia Gold Rush was the first in U.S. history, and state officials demanded that the federal government expel the Cherokee. When Andrew Jackson was inaugurated as President in 1829, Georgia gained a strong ally in Washington. In 1830 Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, authorizing the forcible relocation of American Indians east of the Mississippi to a new Indian Territory. Andrew Jackson said the removal policy was an effort to prevent the Cherokee from facing extinction as a people, which he considered the fate that "the Mohegan, the Narragansett, and the Delaware" had suffered. But, there is ample evidence that the Cherokee were adapting modern farming techniques. A modern analysis shows that…

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