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![handle is hein.amindian/metrany0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 26TF CONGRESS. CONFIDENTIAL B.] 1st Session.
MESSAGE
FROM
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,
TitANSMITTING
The amended treaty with the New York Indians, and certain documents
reling -thereto.
JANUARY 14, 1840.
Read, and with the treaty and documents referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
JANUARY 15, 1840.
-Ordered, That the message, treaty, and accompanying documents, be printed, in confidence,
for the use of the Senate.
To the Senate of the United States:
I again submit to you the amended treaty of June 11, 1838, with the
New York Indians. It is accompanied by minutes of the proceedings of a
council held with them at Cattaraugus, on the 13th and 14th days of
August, 1839, at which were present, on the part of the United States, the
Secretary of War, and on the part of the State of Massachusetts, General
B. A. S. Dearborn, its commissioner; by various documentary testimony,
and by a memorial presented in behalf of the several committees on Indian
concerns appointed by the four yearly meetings of Friends of Genesee,
New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. In the latter document the me-
Inorialists not only insist upon the irregularity and illegality of the negotia-
tion, but urge a variety of considerations, which appear to theru to be very
conclusive, against the policy of the removal itself. The motives by which
they have been induced to take so deep an interest in the subject are frankly
set forth, and are, doubtless, of the most beneficent character. They have,
however, failed to remove my decided conviction that the proposed re-
jnoval, ific can be accomplished by proper means, will be alike beneficial
to the Indians, to the State in which the land is situated, and to the more
general interest of the United States upon the subject of Indian affairs.
The removal of the New York Indians is not only important to the tribes
themselves, but to an interesting portion of western New York, and
especially to the growing city of Buffalo, which is surrounided by lands
occupied by the Senecas. To the Indians, themselves, it presents the only
prospect of preservation. Surrounded as they are, by all the influences
which work their destruction, by temptation they cannot resist, and arti-
fices they cannot counteract, they are rapidly declining, and, notwith-
standing the philanthropic efforts of the society of Friends, it is believe&
Blair & Rives, printers.
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