Excerpt from The Rights of the Free States Subverted: Or, an Enumeration of Some of the Most Prominent Instances in Which the Federal Constitution Has Been Violated by Our National Government for the Benefit of Slavery

This communication was sent to the Senate and House of Representatives by the President on the 12th January following, but no final action appears to have taken place at that timed; On the 29th of June, 1796, another treaty was entered into between the United States and the Creek Indians, called the treaty of Coleraine. Ey, 'the terms of this latter treaty, the Indians again covenanted to deliver up to the officers of the U. States, such negroes as were resident in their nation; and if they were not delivered by the first day of January next following the date of the treaty, then the Governor of Geor gia was authorized to appoint three persons to repair to the Creek nation and demand said negroes, under direction of the President of the United States.§ In consideration of this, and other stipulations, the United States covenanted to pay the Indians six thou sand dollars in goods, and to furnish them with two blacksmiths and strikers, tools, &c., 850. Thus were the people of the free States again involved in the expense and disgrace of sustaining slavery, for the sole benefit of the slaveholders of Georgia. It should also be understood, that at the conclusion of this treaty, many of the slaves from the Upper Creek towns were brought in and delivered to the officers of Government, who con descended to act with the Indians as the assistant catchpolls of southern slaveholders.

Thus were the people of the whole nation taxed and again dishonored for the benefit pf an institution most palpably beyond the jurisdiction of the Federal Government, and abhorrent to the feelings of the people generally.

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