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( 600 [ APPENDIX.S © Jackson's message, that the policy referred to may be distinctly seen, thé® vights of the State in the premises clearly demonstrated, and the duty of@ the Federal Government unequivocally proclaimed. Has this policy be subsequently pursued? tn General Jackson’s seventh annual me he says: “that the plan of removing the aboriginal people who remaifi® yet within the settled portions of the United States, to the country of the Mississippi river approaches to its consummation. Lt was adopted on the most mature consideration of this race, and ought to be periste in till the object is accomplished.” Mr. Van Buren, in his second annual message, after congratulating Congress on the success of the policy in — question, says: “'Mhat a mixed oceupancy of the same territory by white and the red iman, is incompatible with the safety or happiness o®) either; isa position in respect to which there has long since ceased to! be room for a difference of opinion. Tkeason and expericnce have aliker demonstrated its impracticability.” These extracts might be made mi satisfactory by being extended ; but they will suflice, as your committ believe for the purposes of this report. Your commitee, however, will state that, in pursuance of this poliey the Govermnent of the United States has extinguished the Indian title’ near one hundred and twenty millions of acres of land, since the 4th@ March, 1829, up to the date of said annual message, at a cost of sevent two millions five hundred and sixty thousand and fifty-six dollars ; al since the Spring of E837, more than forty thousand Indians have been moved to their new homes west of the Mississippi, as stated by Mx.’ Buren in his fourth anual message, ; Your committee ask if this has been the policy of every administrati since ISO; if in its proseeution, millions have been expended ; if’ happiest results both to the red man and to the white, have follow it; the country strengthened, and the Indians rescued from destruction why is if, that the policy has not been pursued here, that the mischievous and antiquated systein, condemned by every administration for nearly fifty years, and at war with all experience, should be attempted to be 1é vived in this State, fron: whieh especially it should have been excludé Your Committee, therefore, respectfully recommend the adoption of the following resolutions, with the coucurrence of the Iouse of Assembly # iq Resolved, As the sense of the Senate and Assembly of the State California, that the policy pursued by the Federal Government toward the Indian tribes in this State, is wholly and radically wrong, and shoulé he rejected, Resolved, Vhat our Senators in Congress be instructed to oppose thé confirmation of any and all treaties with Indians of the State of Califoré nia, granting to Indians an exclusive right to occupy any of the publi lands in the State. Resolved, That the policy so long and steadily pursued by the General Govermnent, of removing the wild Indians beyond the jurisdiction @ BPENDIX. ] plates, is conceived in wisdom and dictated 1 ave of tranquility @n with safety he yg ; rr. . eo d, That our Senators be Instructed, and our Re Mesto. oa ee Sted, to use their best endenvors to procure the Resolved, That the Governor be requested to pre Md Representatives, ¢ ¢ 601 y humanity, and is producand happiness to the wl ess wile country, and th: : adopted within this State, 2 itis presen titives readoption, by the Medvernin ; . 2M 2 C , alls pIUALLC 1 Same Course tow urds tl 2 Ss tate Go Crhinent of t 4 « D 1C Indi sS of thi ) has been pursued In other States for the ] a ast quarter of a century. sent to our Senators ach, a copy of the foregoing report and resoluM. M. WAMBOUGH, Chairman, J; H: RALSTON, i B. FRANK KHENE, JAMES MILLER. KPa Pitre ane Smee ei yeaah imatiehty on m7 toes Se ag Soo ee ee =