The item in the Journal not long since, stating there were 640 acres of land to each Creek, is obviously wrong. It was based upon the original domain previous to 1866, which by the treaty of that year was reduced by more than half. The estimate made by the Interior department reports, is 311,200 acres. The Creek population being about 14,000 leaves the amount less than 240 acres to each, and a full onethird of this unfit for cultivation.

Has the inevitable come? What then? So much has been said on the subject of opening up this territory to white settlement of using the unoccupied land for purposes of cultivation by them: of the Chinese wall interposed between the free commerce of the States: of a Nation within a Nation, and its inconsistency with the dignity of the United States: of allowing a few terrifying Indians to stand in the way of white enterprise etc, etc, that it may be well to consider the new condition of affairs about to be inaugurated and the probable effect of the radical change so oft attempted and now “inevitable,” as we are informed.

We are now addressing the free intelligent honest white people of the States, and particularly their servants in Congress.