This led, upon the assembly of the commissioners and surveyor at
Chickasaw Old Fields, in the fall of 1807 (for the purpose of surveying
and marking the boundary lines in question), to the negotiation of an
explanatory treaty with certain of the Cherokee chiefs, on the 11th of
September, 1807,[169] whereby it was agreed that the Cherokee cession
line should be extended so far to the eastward as to include all the
waters of Elk River and thereby be made coincident and uniform with the
Chickasaw line.
_Secret article._--The ostensible consideration paid for this
concession, as shown by the treaty, was $2,000; but it was secretly
agreed that $1,000 and two rifles should be given to the chiefs with
whom the treaty was negotiated.[170]
President Jefferson transmitted this latter treaty to the Senate on
the 29th of March, 1808, and having received the consent of that body
to its ratification, it was proclaimed by the President on the 22d of
April following.
[Footnote 160: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 103.]
[Footnote 161: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 101.]
[Footnote 162: May, 1807.]
[Footnote 163: Message of President Jefferson to U. S. Senate, March
29, 1808, and letter of R. J. Meigs, September 28, 1807. American State
Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 753.]
[Footnote 164: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII.]
[Footnote 165: President Jefferson to U.S. Senate, March 29, 1808.
American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 753.]
[Footnote 166: February 21, 1806. Indian Office records.]
[Footnote 167: On the return home of the Cherokee delegation that
visited Washington in 1801, "The Glass," a noted Cherokee chief,
represented to his people that the Secretary of War had said, "One
Joseph Martin has a claim on the Long Island of Holston River." This
the Secretary of War denied, in a letter dated November 20, 1801, to
Col. R.J. Meigs.]
[Footnote 168: April 1. Indian Office records.]
[Footnote 169: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 103.]
[Footnote 170: Letter of Return J. Meigs to Secretary of War, September
28, 1807, in which he says: "With respect to the chiefs who have
transacted the business with us, they will have their hands full to
satisfy the ignorant, the obstinate, and the cunning of some of their
own people, for which they well deserve this _silent_ consideration."]