The Southern Borderlands
Documentary edition · packet 11
The document presents cession as treaty settlement after military defeat. Its territorial reach included communities that had fought beside the United States, making the alliance's unequal ending visible in the text.
The United States demand an equivalent for all expenses incurred in prosecuting the war to its termination, by a cession of all the territory belonging to the Creek nation within the territories of the United States, lying west, south, and south-eastwardly, of a line to be run and described by persons duly authorized and appointed by the President of the United States: ...Historical wording and forms retained where stated.
The Muscogee Confederacy was compelled to transfer an enormous tract of land to the United States.Plain-language reading; not a substitute for quotation.
Editorial method: The opening clause of Article 1 is reproduced; capitalization is reduced and the ellipsis marks the omitted boundary description.
