Author: Committee on Cherokee Neutral LandsPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780365063421
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Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Excerpt from Report of the House Committee Appointed to Visit the Cherokee Neutral Lands, 1870 We also find that the Governor of the State was informed by verbal statements, letters, affidavits, petitions and official certificates of the officers of Crawford and Cherokee counties, of the perpetration of these outrages, and that the. Violators of the law were too formidable to be successfully resisted or restrained by the civil officers of those counties 5 that, acting upon the information thus received, the Governor made appli cation to the proper military authorities for a sufficient force of United States tr00ps, to be stationed on those lands, to preserve the peace and to protect persons and property; that, in compliance with that request, troops were sent and are there now, stationed at different points in Crawford and Cherokee counties, contiguous to the line of the road, under the command of Major James P. Roy, of the Sixth United States Infantry - a gallant soldier, a most excellent and dis oreet officer, an honest and disinterested man. 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.