“[T]he assertion of the President, that we have no right to enter the Indian country without our own limits, for the purpose of ascertaining boundary, and effecting measures connected with the peaceable objects of internal improvement, is a doctrine which this State will not admit, and against which it does most solemnly protest.” – Georgia Legislature (1826) “From the first decisive act of hostility, you will be considered and treated as a public enemy …. You, to whom we might constally have appealed, for our defence against invasions, are yourselves the invaders; and what is more, the unblushing allies of the savages, whose cause you have adopted.” – Georgia Governor George Troup to U.S. Secretary of War James Barbour (1827) | ![]() Georgia Governor George M. Troup (1823-27) - courtesy Wikimedia Commons ![]() |
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