Excerpt from Publications of the Buffalo Historical Socity, Vol. 7 In sending the treaty to the Senate, Jan. 14, 1840, Presi dent Van Buren declared that in his opinion the signatures had been obtained by fraud, and that the treaty ought not to be ratified. After being debated, through a period of eleven days, the vote stood nineteen to nineteen, and the treaty was ratified by the casting vote of R. M. Johnson, the Vice President, in the affirmative. A memorial, signed by sixty seven Seneca chiefs, begged that no appropriation be made to carry out the treaty, as they did not wish to leave their homes in New York. In the next year - 1841 - several peti tions were sent to Congress, asking that the Indians be for Cibly removed; but before action was taken, the committee was discharged from further consideration of the petitions. Governor Everett of Massachusetts, in his message of 1839, expressed the view that if the State had known all that it had since learned, it would not have consented to the request of the Ogden Company. Governor William H. Seward of New York wrote: I am fully satisfied that the consent of the Senecas was obtained by fraud, corruption and violence, and it is therefore false, and ought to be held void A Further Illustration of the Case of the Seneca Indians, p. 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.