Excerpt from Governor's Message to the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, at the Opening of the Extra Session, May 23, 1825: With a Part of the Documents Accompanying the Same Having their own pledge that the peace should be kept among them selves, l wished to see no interruption of it by the Georgians, and honorably for them, there has been none. 1 verily believe, that but for the insidious practices of evil minded white men, the entire nation would have moved harmoniously across the Mississippi. The mas sacre of mcintosh and his friends is to be attributed to them alone. Phat chieftain, whose whole life had been devoted to Georgia as faith fully as to his own Tribe, fell beneath the blows of the assassins, when reposing in the bosom of his family, upon the soil of Georgia the soil which he had defended against a common enemy and against his own blood-which he had relinquished forever to our just de mands, and which he had abandoned to our present use, only because he asked it. So foul a murder, perpetrated by a foreign force upon our territory, and within our jurisdiction, called aloud for vengeance. [t was my settled purpose, having first consulted the government at Washington, to have dealt out the full measure of that vengeance so that honor, humanity, justice, being satisfied, whatever stain may have been left upon our soil, none should upon the page of our big. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.