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Emigration - Arkansas Gazette - November 28, 1837

The vast and prodigious efforts made by the general government to rid the interior of our Union of the presence of its Indian tribes, have made our State for the present, nothing but a thoroughfare, a theatre, for the march of these tribes to their new homes in the west. - At this moment we have Creeks and Chickasaws passing through the country - and it will be but a short period before the fierce and over mastered Seminoles are to be added to the stormy elements in our vicinity. While the government continues to transplant these crushed spirits to our border, it must awaken in the bosoms of our rulers at Washington, a never-ceasing vigisett's comprehensive views as a public man, we have every thing to hope. We shall look to his expose to the President at the opening of Congress, with a more than common interest. It is very manifest that the military force must be increased at our forts. His plan of the public defense, will, in other respects, doubtless be on a scale equal to the emergency.

SOURCE: Arkansas Gazette, November 28, 1837.