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Joint Memorial to the congress of the United States in relation to the depredations of the Creek Indians in 1836 and 1837. 1851 537 (1851)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0440 and id is 1 raw text is: 537 thorough survey-of the state, whereby, doubtless, much of her public lands would be sold, which otherwise would not. Again, Alabama has, from the lands lying within the state, paid many millions of dol- larsinto the United States treasury. Your memorialists deem it unnecessary to elaborate the subject, as they conceive it will at once suggest itself with so much force to your honorable bodies, as to secure an aflirmative response to the prayer of your petitioners. Your memorialists respectfully ask your honorable bodies to pass an act of congress, appropriating to the State of Alabama twenty-five thousand acres of the public lands of this state, in quantities accord- ing to the legal subdivisions, to enable the state to make a thorough geological survey ; stipulating to commence in two years from the passage of said act, and to be completed in ten years from the time of commencement, or such other -reasonable time as your honorable bo- dies may designate. And your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray, &c. 1. Reolved, That the governor be requested to forward a copy of this memorial to cach of our senators and representives in congress. Arrnovein, January 30, 1852. JOINT MEMORIAL To the congress of the United States in relation to the depredations of the Creek Indians in 1836 and 1837. To the Senate and House oJ Representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled: The memorial of the State of Alabania most respectfully represents to your honorable bodies, that in the year 1834 the government of the United States advertised and offered for sale at public outcry that portion of the public domain in Alabama known as the Creek Nation. This territory had been ceded to the United States Ly treaties ratified April 22, 1826, and April 12, 1832, made with the Creck tribe of Indians; the whole of which was offered for sale to the highest bidder as aforesaid in 1834, except the portion covered by Indian reservations. The treaty of 1832 empow- cred the Creeks to sell their reservations, under the control and direc- tion of the United States, which was mostly effected in the latter part of the year 1834, under the supervision of the agents of the govern- mien. it was in this way that these lands in the Creek Nation were occupied by the whites; and thus, for the first time in the history of the country, the white man by the policy of the government was set- tled among the Indians. 2. The citizens thus domesticated with the red man exercised a for-

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