Benton, Thomas Hart, 1782-1858 The Creek and Cherokee lands of Georgia and Alabama

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GLC#
GLC08995
Type
Documents
Date
1826
Author/Creator
Benton, Thomas Hart, 1782-1858
Title
The Creek and Cherokee lands of Georgia and Alabama
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
10 p. : Height: 25 cm, Width: 20 cm
Primary time period
National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
Sub-Era
The First Age of Reform

Contemporary copy likely written by a staff member of a speech regarding removal that Benton delivered to the Senate. Argues that tribal chiefs should be given "gratuities" to convince them to sign treateis and clarifies troubles in negotiations resulting from confusion over the border between Georgia and Alabama. Manuscript is pasted into a book that also contains a typed transcription of the speech. Book is 29 x 22 cm. Document states that the document is "The original autograph manuscript," however this is unlikely, both because the manuscript is written in the third person, and because the handwriting does not seem to be Benton's.

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