1826 Under John Quincy Adams As President, Lands Relinquished And Resold- Many Native American Lands

19th Congress, [Doc. No. 64.], Ho. of Reps. 1st Session. Treas’y Dept. LANDS RELINQUISHED AND RESOLD. LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY TRANSMITTING A REPORT IN RELATION TO Lands Relinquished to the United States, THE PRICE AT WHICH THEY WERE ORIGINALLY SOLD, AND THE Medium price at which they were resold, & c. Rendered in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives, of the 24th January, instant. January 27, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table. WASHINGTON: PRINTED BY GALES & SEATON. 1826
4 numbered pages and on large fold out table of the lands, acreage, purchase price and average sale prices. Toned on the edges, disbound with tears along the spine. Holding. Fold out table in good condition with extensive listings.
Reference: 205-34
Estimate: $25-$45
Measures: 8.875 by 5.5 inches, fold out table measures: 19 by 11.75 inches. Has stamp of the New Jersey Historically Society. Deaccessioned and purchased in 2002 along with other documents. A rare item.
President John Quincy Adams sought the gradual assimilation of Native Americans via consensual agreements, a priority shared by few whites in the 1820s. Yet Adams was also deeply committed to the westward expansion of the United States. Settlers on the frontier, constantly seeking to move westward, cried for a more expansionist policy that disregarded the concerns of Native Americans. Early in his term, Adams suspended the Treaty of Indian Springs after learning that the Governor of Georgia, George Troup, had forced the treaty on the Muscogee. Adams signed a new treaty with the Muscogee in January 1826 that allowed the Muscogee to stay but ceded most of their land to Georgia. Troup refused to accept its terms and authorized all Georgian citizens to evict the Muscogee. A showdown between Georgia and the federal government was only averted after the Muscogee agreed to a third treaty. Though many saw Troup as unreasonable in his dealings with the federal government and the Native Americans, the administration's handling of the incident alienated those in the Deep South who favored immediate Indian removal.
The demand for land from 1820-1860 [Andrew Jackson was at the heart and the start of this continental crisis that started the mass extinction and annihilation of Native Americans and the tribes that occupied these regions highlighted by this publication]. A quotation from Stanley Lebergott’s article in the Journal of Economic History, Vol. XLV, June 1985, No. 2; page 181; states: “Americans have held two extreme views of the farmer. One is the Jefferson’s: “those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.” The other is Menchen’s canard: “It is the theory of zanies who perform at Washington [Government], that a grower of wheat devotes himself to the banal art in philanthropic and patriotic spirit- that he plants and harvests his crop in order that the folks of the cities may not go without bread.”

Notes: Light toned, Disbound, tears on the edges, remains of sewing. Good condition. See images.

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